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Date Sent: 2012-09-15
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Saturday, September 15, 2012 |
News Link • Obama Administration
Obama Was Warned About Libya 48 Hours Prior And Did Nothing
09-14-2012
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http://govtslaves.info, nteb
The killings of the US ambassador to Libya and three of his staff were likely to have been the result of a serious and continuing security breach, The Independent can reveal.
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
US Credit Rating Cut by Egan-Jones ... Again
09-14-2012
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CNBC
Ratings firm Egan-Jones cut its credit rating on the U.S. government to "AA-" from "AA," citing its opinion that quantitative easing from the Federal Reserve would hurt the U.S. economy and the country's credit quality.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Police Defend Physical Removal Of 77-Year-Old Driver
09-14-2012
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CBS News (video)
Police in Keene are commenting today about an incident involving a sergeant making a traffic stop and the physical removal of a 77-year-old woman from her vehicle.
The Keene Police Department released a statement earlier this week about the incide
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Employee and Employer Relations
Chicago teachers reportedly reach ‘tentative agreement’ with board
09-14-2012
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Washington Post
Striking teachers in Chicago have reached a tentative deal with the city that will end a five-day stand-off and send 400,000 children back to class by Monday, according to sources close to the negotiations.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • China
Six Chinese ships enter Japanese waters near disputed islands
09-14-2012
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Washington Post
In an increasingly fierce dispute over control of tiny islands and the sea around them, six Chinese maritime patrol ships entered Japanese waters Friday. Japan’s coast guard asked the ships to leave; China said they had every right to be there.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
Online rights groups fear backlash amid video protests
09-14-2012
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AFP
Internet rights champions on Friday were fearful that free speech online may be among the victims of violence spurred by an anti-Islam video posted to YouTube.
A decision by YouTube parent Google to deny access to the video in Libya and Egypt even
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Afghanistan
At least two US marines killed in attack on Camp Bastion in Afghanistan
09-14-2012
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The Guardian
At least two American marines were killed in an attack on a Nato base in Afghanistan in the early hours of Saturday morning. Taliban attackers are believed to have breached the perimeter of Camp Bastion and damaged buildings, hangers and aircraft. Th
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Twitter hands over Occupy protester messages to prosecutors
09-14-2012
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The Guardian
Twitter has relented in its fight with New York prosecutors to hand over 3 months worth of messages from an Occupy Wall Street protester ahead of the activist's criminal trial. Twitter had argued that the posts belong to Malcolm Harris and as such it
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Aging Mars rover discovers geological mystery
09-14-2012
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AFP
Opportunity, which has been on the Red Planet since 2004, has come across an outcrop of tiny spheres " up to around an eighth of an inch (three millimeters) in diameter " the likes of which scientists have never seen before.
“This is one of the mo
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
Obama attorneys ask court to restore indefinite detention power
09-14-2012
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Rawstory
Less than 24 hours after a judge blocked a law that gives the government the power to indefinitely detain U.S. citizens without trial, attorneys for the Obama administration were already filing an appeal.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
Google rejects White House request to pull Mohammad film clip
09-14-2012
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Reuters
Google Inc (GOOG.O) rejected a request by the White House on Friday to reconsider its decision to keep online a controversial YouTube movie clip that has ignited anti-American protests in the Middle East.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
Probation office looking at anti-Muslim filmmaker
09-14-2012
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AP
Federal probation officials are investigating the activities of a southern California filmmaker convicted of financial crimes who has been linked to an anti-Islamic movie inflaming protests across the Middle East, a spokesman for the U.S.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Just For Fun!
Man Pays $137 Traffic Ticket With 137 Origami Pigs In Donut Boxes (PHOTOS, VIDEO)
09-14-2012
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www.huffingtonpost.com
Here's a guy who really wanted to stick it to the man.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Police State
More sniper ammunition being ordered by DHS " Who are the targets?
09-14-2012
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www.setyoufreenews.com
Nevertheless, have no fear; DHS only needs 25,000 rounds to develop good sniper skills. Because, they have also ordered 176,000 rounds of the .308 caliber hollow point boat tail (HPBT) rounds.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Operation Screw - "All In" on QE 3 (Video)
09-14-2012
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Schiff Report
The geniuses at the Federal Reserve have concocted a bold new plan to revive the U.S. economy -- print a bunch of money, loan it to Americans at super low interest rates so they can speculate on rising real estate prices, extract the appreciated equi
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Joe Plummer
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News Link • Currencies
Dollar no longer primary oil currency as China begins to sell oil using Yuan
09-14-2012
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The Examiner
China and Russia have agreed to start trading oil in yuans instead of dollars. What does this spell for the petrodollar? D-E-M-I-S-E.
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Bob Ross
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News Link • Entertainment: Sports
Packers risk it and succeed on ‘gutsy’ fourth-and-26 fake field goal (VIDEO)
09-14-2012
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http://sports.yahoo.com
The Packers (1-1) pulled off a perfectly executed trick play, then rattled and robbed Jay Cutler the rest of the way in a 23-10 victory over the division rival Chicago Bears at Lambeau Field on Thursday night.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Environment
'Nuclear time bomb:' Downed K-27 submarine must be lifted out
09-14-2012
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http://rt.com
A Soviet K-27 submarine suffered a nuclear accident before being dumped at the bottom of the Kara Sea 30 years ago.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Political Parties
Police State Takes Over Greyhound
09-14-2012
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http://govtslaves.info, from the trenches
I was on a Greyhound this morning after a 12 hour trip and was really looking forward to getting off the bus.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Libya
Ron Paul Predicted Al Qaeda Will Takeover Libya In 2011
09-14-2012
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http://govtslaves.info, Thomas Dishaw
Mainstream media continues to mock this “Great American” but he is wise beyond his years.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Surveillance
Revolt! Maryland Residence Tearing Down Speed And Surveillance Cameras
09-14-2012
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http://govtslaves.info, Geoffrey Ingersoll
Police in Palmer Park, Md., plan to deploy cameras to surveil the other other cameras in their district.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Tissue Engineering the Brain, Eyes and Pituitary Glands
09-14-2012
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arclein
How do the proliferating stem cells of an embryo organize themselves seamlessly into the complex structures of the body and brain? And is tissue formation driven by a genetic program intrinsic to cells, or shaped by external cues from neighbouring t
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robert klein
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News Link • Agriculture
A Saskatchewan Surprise
09-14-2012
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arclein
What startled me was to see a mature sour cherry tree with a full load of well sized cherries. I had thought that this tree could not prosper here yet is was looking at a hundred weight of cherries nicely ripened at the end of august. It is worth men
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robert klein
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News Link • Science
Generational Effects of BPA and Other Selected Chemicals
09-14-2012
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arclein
the scientists found evidence of genetic alterations from BPA exposure. But the truly significant aspect of the study comes from the fact that the researchers replicated in mice the low-level, chronic exposure that humans experience in their day-to-d
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robert klein
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News Link • Science
Flash on Jupiter
09-14-2012
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arclein
Jupiter impacts are of great interest to astronomers, amateur and professional, because they're part of the orbital billiards game that has shaped our solar system. In some cases, the cosmic interloper is destroyed before it has any visible effect o
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robert klein
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Cliff Asness Wants Everyone To Read This Paper On How Investors Are Getting Swindled
09-14-2012
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www.businessinsider.com
A new paper recommended as a "required read" to Business Insider by hedge fund legend Cliff Asness charges that America is getting swindled by the investment management industry.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Internet
Here's The New Logo For Facebook's Ad Exchange
09-14-2012
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www.businessinsider.com
Facebook officially unveiled its FBX ad exchange " in which ad buyers can "retarget" Facebook users within Facebook based on cookies they picked up on other web sites " yesterday by branding it with a fancy new logo.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Meet The Blogger Who May Have Just Saved The American Economy
09-14-2012
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www.businessinsider.com
The Fed's announcement of QE Unlimited was a clear departure from past strategy: Rather than seeing asset purchases as an amount of money injected into the financial system, the Fed is now aggressively using the power of future guidance.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Meg Whitman: We Are Going To Release A Smartphone At HP
09-14-2012
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www.businessinsider.com
Whitman says, "We ultimately have to offer a smartphone," because the future of computing is smartphones. In developing countries people aren't going to buy HP desktops or laptops. If HP doesn't want to be hosed, it has to deliver a smartphone.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • How To
This On-Demand Car Repair Site Could Disrupt The Factory Model
09-14-2012
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www.businessinsider.com
A new car service called YourMechanic is taking aim at the old school repair shop.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Off Grid Living - Survival Prepping
Last Seed School of 2012: October 28 - November 2, 2012 - Special Phoenix, AZ session
09-14-2012
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www.nativeseeds.org
As awareness grows around issues of food and sustainability, people everywhere are waking up to the vital importance of seeds. Now more than ever, we need small, bioregional seed operations to replace the “one-size-fits-all” industrial seed system
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Just For Fun!
Wanted: 1 goat herder, 30 goats at O’Hare Int’l Airport
09-14-2012
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www.myfoxchicago.com
Fox Chicago has learned the Chicago Department of Aviation recently put out a bid looking for someone to supply goats to graze on the grass and brush at O'Hare. It also calls for a goat herder.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Libya
Revealed: inside story of US envoy's assassination
09-14-2012
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www.independent.co.uk
America 'was warned of embassy attack but did nothing'
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Propaganda
Green Lantern: Even If True, Tebow Trade Story Reeks Of A Media Agenda
09-14-2012
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www.newyork.cbsglobal.com
This notion, as reported in a NYC tabloid on Thursday, that Tebow could leave the Jets after the 2012 season seems like it’s self-serving. It’s not necessary, even if there could be a modicum of truth to it.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Government Waste
After huge White House construction job, West Wing emerges little changed " but for how long?
09-14-2012
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www.washingtonpost.com
After nearly two years and $86 million worth of noisy and disruptive construction, the West Wing has emerged from its visual seclusion remarkably unchanged. And deep underground, whatever has been built there remains shrouded in mystery.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Religion: Believers
Board Votes to Regulate Circumcision, Citing Risks
09-14-2012
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www.nytimes.com
The New York City Board of Health passed a regulation on Thursday that will require consent from parents before an infant can have a form of Jewish ritual circumcision, prevalent in parts of the ultra-Orthodox community, in which the circumciser uses
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Police State
Photos: TSA Checkpoint At Mitt Romney Political Event
09-14-2012
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www.infowars.com
The TSA has been very busy in recent weeks, placing its agents at events and functions that have nothing whatsoever to do with transportation, emphasizing how the federal agency has stepped way beyond its mandate and become a literal occupying army o
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Energy
Texas Posse Hunting for Halliburton’s Missing Radioactive Device
09-14-2012
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www.bloomberg.com
Texas may call out the National Guard in the hunt for a seven-inch radioactive rod used in drilling natural-gas wells, lost this week by Halliburton Co. (HAL) somewhere in a 130-mile swath of the state’s western oil fields.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Police State
New cameras to watch cameras that watch you
09-14-2012
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www.wtop.com
Many people find speed cameras frustrating, and some in the region are taking their rage out on the cameras themselves.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Liberty Groups a Front for the Republican Machine
09-14-2012
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www.dailypaul.com Tisha Casida
In an effort to believe that I was the only one experiencing this vortex in the liberty movement " I have kept my mouth shut. But no more " after reading Mr. Woods ‘ article about his experience with Jesse Benton and Campaign for Liberty (C4L), I thi
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Donna Hancock
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Opinion • Future Predictions
“The Age Of Despotism”
09-13-2012
Chuck Baldwin
On August 7, 2012, The Washington Times ran an editorial entitled, “The Civil War of 2016.” It begins, “Imagine Tea Party extremists seizing control of a South Carolina town and the Army being sent in to crush the rebellion.
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News Link • Whistleblowers
My Memories of Jesse Benton - by Tom Woods
09-13-2012
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TomWoods.com via Daily Paul
"I could go through a lengthy catalogue of problems with Benton. The grassroots folks already know a lot of them, so there’s probably no need. What’s done is done."
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • NeoCons
Would Neocons Control Romney?
09-13-2012
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http://www.globalresearch.ca, By Paul R. Pillar
Mitt Romney has articulated few substantive differences between himself and President Obama on foreign policy, but a Romney victory could dramatically change the U.S. approach to the world because he, like George W. Bush, is surrounding himself with
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Libya
US deploying warships to Libyan coast
09-13-2012
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http://rt.com
American officials have said that the Pentagon is sending two warships toward the coast of Libya, the Associated Press reports.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Secret Societies
United Nations Partnership Poses Major Threat To Online Free Speech
09-13-2012
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http://govtslaves.info, Madison Ruppert
The highly secretive Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations are coming under increased fire from both government officials like Senator Ron Wyden and civil society organizations like the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the American Civ
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gun Rights
Obama: Substance Abusers Can’t Own Firearms
09-13-2012
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http://govtslaves.info, Susanne Posel
The Obama Administration through the Justice Department has given the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) the authority to “seize and administratively forfeit property involved in controlled-substance abuses.”
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Future Predictions
Great Panic Coming To United States
09-13-2012
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http://govtslaves.info, George Krum
The depression and panic will come before the current administration goes out of office.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Contractors, Government & Military
Gov’t Guarantees 90% Occupancy Rate In Private Prisons
09-13-2012
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http://govtslaves.info, Kevin Johnson
At a time when states are struggling to reduce bloated prison populations and tight budgets, a private prison management company is offering to buy prisons in exchange for various considerations, including a controversial guarantee that the governme
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Libya
Who's tracking what's going on Libya right now?
9/12/2012
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imgur.com
Who's tracking what's going on Libya right now? I'd be willing to bet, if you ARE... you have not seen this yet. Check it out.
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Ronald Bogner
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama vows to track down ambassador's killers
09-13-2012
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By Matt Spetalnick and Hadeel Al Shalchi
President Barack Obama branded the killing of the U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other Americans an "outrageous attack" on Wednesday and vowed to track down the perpetrators, while ordering a tightening of diplomatic security worldwide.
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News Link • Surveillance
House votes to renew controversial surveillance law
09-13-2012
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http://www.washingtonpost.com, By Ellen Nakashima
The House of Representatives voted Wednesday to renew a contested surveillance law, moving it a step closer to full reauthorization " a goal strongly shared by the White House and the intelligence community as a way to protect the nation against terr
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama Sends Drones, Marines, and Warships to Libya Following Consulate Attack
09-13-2012
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http://news.antiwar.com, by John Glaser
It's possible some of the same rebel militias the US helped oust Gadhafi have now turned their sights on the US presence in Libya
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Higgs Boson Discovery Has Been Confirmed
09-13-2012
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http://www.forbes.com, Alex Knapp
Last July, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, commonly known as CERN, announced that it had finally discovered the elusive Higgs boson " or at least, a particle that matches the predictions of what the Higgs boson should look like.
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