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Date Sent: 2012-08-20
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Monday, August 20, 2012 AM edition |
Jordan says 4 Syrian rockets fall on Jordanian border town, wounding 4-year-old girl
New Zealand considering early departure from Afghan War -- Israeli citizens grow concerned over price tag on war with Iran -- Infant drug tests for marijuana are unreliable -- GOP Congressman survivalist Roscoe Bartlett prepares for a
threatened future -- So You’re Going to Mine Asteroids? Oh, Really. -- Ousted Chinese politician’s wife gets suspended death sentence for murder of UK businessman -- Drones - by L. Neil Smith -- Rumors of War - by L. Neil Smith -- Lemonade and Raw Milk Rebels (Video) -- Curiosity Rover Fires First
Laser Beam at Martian Rock -- US Alcohol Drinkers Average 4 Beverages
Per Week -- Dems slam Ryan over Social Security privatization -- Marriage Drives Women to Drink, Study Suggests -- Julian Assange urges US to end Wikileaks 'witch-hunt' -- Gene Control, Delivered Directly to the Brain -- The iPhone Has Passed a Key Security Threshold -- Judge Napolitano Teaches the Constitution -- Study finds microbes manipulate your mind -- Somalis attempt to install first stable central government in 21 years -- Free Bottle of Water? NOT WITHOUT A PERMIT!
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News Link • Syria
Jordan says 4 Syrian rockets fall on Jordanian border town, wounding 4-year-old girl
08-19-2012
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AP
Jordan’s information minister says 4 Syrian rockets have fallen on a northern Jordanian border town, slightly wounding a 4-year-old girl. Sameeh Maaytah says the Jordanian girl was treated for shrapnel wounds and then released from the hospital.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Justice and Judges
The Return of the General Warrant?
08-19-2012
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The Agitator
Murray County Chief Magistrate Judge Bryant Cochran has resigned, ending a judicial ethics investigation that included the judge’s practice of distributing pre-signed, blank arrest and search warrants to local law enforcement officers.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Afghanistan
New Zealand considering early departure from Afghan War
08-19-2012
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AFP
New Zealand revealed Monday it was considering an early withdrawal from Afghanistan after three of its soldiers were killed in a roadside bomb attack on their convoy in Bamiyan province.
Prime Minister John Key insisted the plan to pull out early
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Israel
Israeli citizens grow concerned over price tag on war with Iran
08-19-2012
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Rawstory
Lia Tarachansky of The Real News reports that many Israelis are growing concerned over the potential costs of a war with Iran " not in terms of lives or national prestige, but as measured in their taxes and in the prices they pay for basic goods.
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News Link • Drug War
Researchers: Infant drug tests for marijuana are unreliable
08-19-2012
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Rawstory
The most commonly used drug testing methods for detecting marijuana exposure are unreliable when used on infant babies and “should not be reported.” Even the more targeted THC assay show a “significantly higher” false-positive results
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News Link • Food
GOP Congressman survivalist Roscoe Bartlett prepares for a threatened future
08-19-2012
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Washington Post
Deep in the West Virginia woods, in a small cabin powered by the sun and the wind, a bespectacled, white-haired man is giving a video tour of his basement, describing techniques for the long-term preservation of food in case of “an emergency.”
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
So You’re Going to Mine Asteroids? Oh, Really.
08-19-2012
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Slate
Our telescopes are cubes half-a-meter on a side and will cost around $1 million each. When they are developed to a high level of performance, we want to print them en masse on an assembly line. They will have mind-blowing imaging capability.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • China
Ousted Chinese politician’s wife gets suspended death sentence for murder of UK businessman
08-19-2012
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Washington Post
The wife of a disgraced Chinese politician was given a suspended death sentence after confessing to killing a British businessman by poisoning him with cyanide in a case that rocked the country’s top political leadership.
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News Link • Surveillance
Drones
08-19-2012
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by L. Neil Smith (The Libertarian Enterprise)
When his plane was finally shot down, Dad used the .45 for its intended purpose, and then tossed it out into the slipstream with the broken bombsight. He knew that one man, armed with a single handgun, wasn't about to open up another front in the Ger
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News Link • Homeland Security
Rumors of War
08-19-2012
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by L. Neil Smith (The Libertarian Enterprise)
Unless you've been doing wall paintings in a Spanish cave, you'll be aware that earlier this year, the federal Department of Homeland Security has ordered 450,000,000 rounds of hollowpoint .40 S&W pistol ammunition. Look at that number again: four hu
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Activism
Lemonade and Raw Milk Rebels (Video)
08-18-2012
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The International Libertarian
They came to Washington DC from cities and small towns, from near and far, to break the law. Their crime? Selling raw milk and lemonade without permits nor licenses. Fortunately, the civil disobedience went well. Unlike last year the police didn't i
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Darren Wolfe
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Curiosity Rover Fires First Laser Beam at Martian Rock
08-19-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By Betsy Mason
A small, flat rock known as Coronation suffered the wrath of Curiosity’s laser when the Mars rover finally fired up its ChemCam instrument and delivered 30 pulses of energy at the rock over a 10-second period.
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
US Alcohol Drinkers Average 4 Beverages Per Week
08-19-2012
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http://www.livescience.com, Megan Gannon
A majority of adults in the United States consume alcohol, and these drinkers, on average, have four beverages per week, with beer the preferred choice, according to an annual Gallup survey.
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News Link • Social Security
Dems slam Ryan over Social Security privatization
08-19-2012
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AP
Democrats are eagerly renewing their fight against privatizing Social Security now that Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has picked Paul Ryan as his running mate. It was a fight that didn't go well for the GOP when President George W. Bu
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News Link • Marriage
Marriage Drives Women to Drink, Study Suggests
08-19-2012
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http://www.livescience.com, Jennifer Abbasi
Marriage may drive a woman to drink, not because she's unhappy but because she's influenced by her husband's alcohol consumption, new research suggests. And men, on average, drink more than women.
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Julian Assange urges US to end Wikileaks 'witch-hunt'
08-19-2012
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BBC News
"The United States must pledge before the world that it will not pursue journalists for shining a light on the secret crimes of the powerful." The USA was facing a choice between re-affirming the "revolutionary values it was founded on" or
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Religion: Believers
Americans Increasingly Super-Sizing Their Churches
08-19-2012
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http://www.livescience.com, Stephanie Pappas
More and more Americans are spending their Sundays at megachurches, enormous churches with congregations numbering in the thousands. Despite the size of these churches, members don't get lost in the crowd, new research finds.
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
The iPhone Has Passed a Key Security Threshold
08-19-2012
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http://www.technologyreview.com, Simson L. Garfink
Does society really want extremely private mobile devices if they make life easier for criminals? Apple's newly toughened standards sharpen the focus on that question.
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
Simple new test to combat counterfeit drug problem in developing countries
08-19-2012
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http://www.bio-medicine.org, Michael Bernstein
In a thrust against the major problem of counterfeit medicines sold in developing countries, which causes thousands of illnesses and deaths annually, scientists today described development of a simple, paper-strip test that people could use to identi
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Feature Article • Media: Radio
Better Dead Than Red"
Dave Hodges
The ongoing Communist takeover of our banks which will be followed by the implementation of martial law complete with FEMA camps and the planned extermination of millions of dissenting Americans.
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News Link • Constitution
Judge Napolitano Teaches the Constitution
08-19-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
A 4 part video series shared by my friend Keith Broaders from http://constitutionalsheriffs.ning.com.
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Study finds microbes manipulate your mind
08-19-2012
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Mo Costandi, The Guardian
“The thought of parasites preying on your body or brain very likely sends shivers down your spine. Perhaps you imagine insectoid creatures bursting from stomachs or a malevolent force controlling your actions.
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News Link • Police State
Jerusalem police arrest suspects in anti-Arab attack
08-19-2012
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The RawStory.com
Jerusalem police on Sunday arrested three Jewish teens suspected of a brutal hate attack on young Palestinians, and magistrates remanded in custody another suspect detained a day ago.
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News Link • Free Speech
We Will Watch the Watcher
8-19-2012
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Free Press Publications
On August 13 Ademo Freeman was convicted by a jury on 3 counts of felony wiretapping because he recorded phone conversations with pubic officials without the consent of said officials. While Ademo did violate the NH wiretapping law, the NH law violat
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Darryl W. Perry
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News Link • Voting and Elections
How nonprofits spend millions on elections and call it public welfare
08-19-2012
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Pro Publica via RawStory.com
Matt Brooks describes the mission of the Republican Jewish Coalition as educating the Jewish community about critical domestic and foreign policy issues.
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News Link • Government
Somalis attempt to install first stable central government in 21 years
08-19-2012
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The RawStoyry.com
Somalia’s newly appointed legislature will elect the country’s next president Monday, in a fresh bid to end two decades of unstable central government in the war-torn Horn of Africa nation.
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News Link • Environment
Local broadcast on Bayou Corne Sinkhole & bubbles video “Mandatory Evacuation”- Latest Flyover
08-19-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
A New Orleans news station broadcast that the residents around Bayou Corne are under a mandatory evacuation of the area. They mention the bubbling in the Bayou and say it is “Natural Gas”, they mention the Butane cavern and of course the sinkhole.
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Men trying to be our God
Free Bottle of Water? NOT WITHOUT A PERMIT!
08-19-2012
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abc15.com via NaturalNews/DailyPaul
PHOENIX - The City of Phoenix could face a lawsuit if the city doesn’t apologize to a Valley woman for telling her she could not hand out free bottled water to people in the summer heat.
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Food
Insight: Big Food girds for California GMO fight
08-19-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
In November, voters in the nation’s most populous state will decide whether to require labels on food and drinks containing so-called GMOs, or ingredients that come from plants whose DNA has been manipulated by scientists.
To fight the initiative,
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Eugenics
Eugenics Agenda Behind the Advancement Toward Male Contraceptive Pill
08-19-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Eugenicists have successfully developed a “birth-control pill” for men. Calling the drug JQ1, this chemical cocktail stunts sperm production in mice. According to a newly published study , researchers are calling this discovery an “efficacious strate
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Afghanistan
Taliban: We infiltrated Afghan security forces
08-19-2012
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http://rt.com
The spiritual leader of the Taliban said the group's insurgents have succeeded in foisting the ranks of the Afghan security forces, allowing them to attack their fellow NATO service members.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Robots and Artificial Intelligence
Blue Sky Project Will Use Drones to Deliver 3-D Portraits
08-18-2012
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WIRED.com
A nonprofit called ReAllocate is developing an art project " called Blue Sky " for Burning Man that will scan people and 3-D-print a model of them before delivering it by drone using GPS tracking.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Nikola Tesla museum campaign raises over $500,000 online in first two days
08-18-2012
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Adam Gabbatt, The Guardian
The development of a museum dedicated to the life and works Nikola Tesla has moved one step closer after an online campaign raised more than $500,000 in 48 hours.
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News Link • Military
U.S., Afghan officials concerned over ‘insider attacks’
08-18-2012
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The RawStory.com
Pentagon chief Leon Panetta urged Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Saturday to crack down on a rise in attacks by Afghan security personnel on their Western colleagues, officials said.
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News Link • Surveillance
At America's Biggest Drone Show, The Focus Shifts Toward Domestic Skies
08-18-2012
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http://www.popsci.com, By Clay Dillow
How a defense-based industry is preparing to fill the home skies with robots
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News Link • Police Accountability Report
Pensacola cop fired, arrested after video shows violent encounter with suspect
08-18-2012
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Pensacola News Journal
A Pensacola police K-9 officer was fired and arrested Friday after an investigation stemming from a police video that showed him slamming a woman whom he was arresting into the side of her car.
Christopher Geraci, 33, who had been with the departm
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Tim Frey
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News Link • Men trying to be our God
Marine Veteran Arrested for Facebook Posts
08-18-2012
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targetfreedom.com via John Perna e-mail
Marine Veteran Raub Brandon has been arrested for his Facebook Posts. Why? ...nobody knows.
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Sexuality: Sex and the Law
Ex-teacher gets 5-year prison term for ADULT student sex
08-18-2012
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AP
A former Texas high school teacher was sentenced to 5 years in prison for having sex with five 18-year-old students at her home. Charges were filed because "18 or not, it's a crime" for a teacher to have sex with her students.
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
In A Paper System, All Assets Are Backed by the Treasury Bond
08-18-2012
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http://www.zerohedge.com, Tyler Durden
In a gold-based monetary system, every asset is ultimately backed by gold.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Energy
Drought Sparks Battle Over Ethanol Quotas
08-18-2012
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http://www.cnbc.com, By: John H. Cushman Jr
Three big intertwined but rival agribusinesses " corn farmers, meat and poultry producers, and biofuel refineries " are in a political fight to protect their interests as a drought ravages corn producers and industrial consumers alike.
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News Link • Government
The west has just become a giant banana republic
08-18-2012
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http://www.sovereignman.com, Simon Black
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has made an admirable habit of enraging western governments over the last few years, particularly the United States.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Employment & Jobs
Labor Department $100 Million Giveaway to Stop State Layoffs
08-18-2012
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www.thedailybell.com, by Mike
$100 million sounds like a lot of money but it does not go very far these days. It is less than .01% of the deficit.
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Robert Lee
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Opinion • Humor
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
August 19, 2012 Edition
08-17-2012
John Semmens
Obama Campaign Offers Deal on Romney Tax Returns
Obama campaign manager Jim Messina sent a letter to the Romney campaign offering to stop demanding more disclosures if the Romney campaign would consent to providing five years worth of Romney's tax
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News Link • Police State
German army's crisis role widened
08-17-2012
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BBC News
The German military will in future be able to use its weapons on German streets in an extreme situation, the Federal Constitutional Court says. The armed forces can be deployed if Germany faces an assault of "catastrophic proportions",
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Diplomatic cables reveal Australia expects U.S. to charge Julian Assange
08-17-2012
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Rawstory
Declassified diplomatic cables from Australia’s embassy in Washington DC, obtained through freedom of information requests reveal Australian officials have begun laying the groundwork for the USA to pursue charges against WikiLeaks founder Julian Ass
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