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Date Sent: 2012-10-13
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Saturday, October 13, 2012 |
Budget deficit tops $1 trillion for fourth straight year
Good Morning, Sweetheart: Now You're on Fire, Courtesy of the Local Police - by William Grigg -- A U.S. platoon awaits the end of Afghan war -- GOP tax plan would have minimal reduction on federal tax rates, analysis says -- Booming banks say consumers may not see lower mortgage rates -- America, The ‘Stateless’ Society -- The Mainstream Media Is Not Our Friend: A Call To Arms -- "He's a Constitutionalist" (Updated) - by William Grigg -- How a man lived six months with no heart or pulse -- SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News-- October 14, 2012 Edition -- Practical advice Friday: What form of Silver should you hold? -- Overwrought empire: The discrediting of US military power -- The BBC Is Being Shaken To Its Core By An Enormous Sex Abuse Scandal -- In Old Nike Ads, Lance Armstrong Talks About Doping But Doesn't Actually Deny It -- The Ukrainian Navy Is Strapping Dolphins With Guns To Attack Swimmers -- US election double standards -- Many injured as nationalists storm Moscow gay bar -- MS-13 gang labeled transnational criminal group, a first for US street gang -- Disabled Vet Labeled “Terrorist” For Investigating Cost Of Surveillance Cameras -- Rival protesters clash in Egypt's capital -- Eurozone crisis: summer promise quickly evaporating -- How Cuba won the missile crisis
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Budget deficit tops $1 trillion for fourth straight year
10-12-2012
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By Rachelle Younglai Reuters
The United States government reported a budget surplus for the final month of the 2012 fiscal year, but the tiny bump in revenues did not prevent the country's deficit from exceeding $1 trillion for the fourth year in a row.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Good Morning, Sweetheart: Now You're on Fire, Courtesy of the Local Police
10-12-2012
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Lew Rockwell blog
The child was asleep in her upstairs bedroom when a stranger lobbed an incendiary grenade into her home at about 6:00 a.m. October 9. Within seconds the 12-year-old girl had suffered first- and second-degree burns. Her father,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Afghanistan
A U.S. platoon awaits the end of Afghan war
10-12-2012
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Washington Post
There is an uneasy silence in the dark chow tent. In a few months, the U.S. Army will bulldoze its portion of the base, part of America’s slow withdrawal of combat forces from Afghanistan. All that will remain here in this isolated place is a small A
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
GOP tax plan would have minimal reduction on federal tax rates, analysis says
10-12-2012
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Washington Post
Wiping out itemized deductions and raising taxes on investment income would generate only enough cash to pay for a minuscule reduction in federal tax rates, raising new questions about the workability of Republican-style tax reform.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Housing
Booming banks say consumers may not see lower mortgage rates
10-12-2012
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Washington Post
JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo, the nation’s largest mortgage lenders, said Friday they won’t make home loans much cheaper for consumers, even as they reported booming profits from that business.
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Powell Gammill
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Reference Link • Activism
The Mainstream Media Is Not Our Friend: A Call To Arms
www.thecommonsenseshow.com
The mainstream media is not the friend of people seeking the truth. The media is largely controlled by six corporations representing the same people and corporations which are trying to enslave, and in some cases, trying to exterminate humanity.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
"He's a Constitutionalist" (Updated Again)
10-09-2012
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by William N. Grigg (Pro Liberate)
“Bear! There are guys with guns outside!” shouted Marcella Cruz to her husband as she looked out the kitchen window of their farmhouse in Letha, Idaho. Timidly opening the kitchen door, Marcella " a small, slender, middle-aged woman
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
How a man lived six months with no heart or pulse
10-12-2012
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Terrence Aym
Jakub Halik, a remarkable 37-year-old Czech, is the first man in history to live without a heart or any pulse for an astonishing half a year. Halik's odyssey began April 3, 2012 when a crack Czech medical team"led by the brilliant professor, Dr. Jan
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Terrence Aym
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Practical advice Friday: What form of Silver should you hold?
10-12-2012
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Simon Black
Along with gold, silver has been considered money for thousands of years. In ancient Rome, for example, the silver Denarius coin was first minted in the third century BC.
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News Link • General Opinion
Overwrought empire: The discrediting of US military power
10-12-2012
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Aljazeera
Americans lived in a "victory culture" for much of the 20th century.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Media: Internet
The BBC Is Being Shaken To Its Core By An Enormous Sex Abuse Scandal
10-12-2012
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Business Insider
What's happening right now in the U.K. can probably be compared to the scandal that engulfed Penn State and Jerry Sandusky earlier this year.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Misinformation
In Old Nike Ads, Lance Armstrong Talks About Doping But Doesn't Actually Deny It
10-12-2012
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Business Insider
A couple of Lance Armstrong's old Nike ads from years ago look extremely strange in light of the recent U.S. Anti-Doping Agency report, which alleges that the cyclist did indeed take banned substances, and spent years as a master manipulator.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Internet
IT'S FACEBOOK OFFICIAL: A 'Want' Button Is Getting Tested
10-12-2012
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Business Insider
After months of talk, it's finally official: Facebook is testing a "Want" button.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Internet
A Few Interesting Details About What Marissa Mayer And Yahoo Are Up To
10-12-2012
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Business Insider
Reader interest in what Marissa Mayer is doing at Yahoo is insanely high.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Food
McDonald's Top Ad Man Explains Why The McRib Keeps Getting Yanked From The Menu
10-12-2012
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Business Insider
McDonald's has a problem with Christmas, and the holidays generally. It's not that McD's is against the festive season. Rather, it's that McDonald's can't really compete against the giant turkey and ham dinners that bookend the final month of the yea
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
This Chart Proves Work-Based Welfare Works
10-12-2012
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Business Insider
This may seem only obliquely related to the political hurly-burly of the moment, but I think it’s connected.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Weird/Offbeat News
The Ukrainian Navy Is Strapping Dolphins With Guns To Attack Swimmers
10-12-2012
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Business Insider
The Navies of the world have long known how effective the sonar of dolphins and sea lions can be at locating small underwater objects.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Activism
Tribes Give New Hope To Fight Against Coal Ports
10-12-2012
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Common Dreams
NW tribes flex their muscle over proposed coal terminal project
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Political Parties
US election double standards
10-12-2012
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rt.com
While the US prides itself in free and fair elections, RT’s Anastasia Churkina reports on some of the flaws and double standards in the electoral system that American politicians pretend don’t exist.
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News Link • Activism
Many injured as nationalists storm Moscow gay bar
10-12-2012
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rt.com
Some 20 alleged nationalists launched an assault on a Moscow gay bar amidst Coming Out Day celebrations, kicking women in their heads, using bottles as weapons and making threats with guns. The attack left many injured, with three taken to hospital.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Drug War
MS-13 gang labeled transnational criminal group, a first for US street gang
10-12-2012
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Christian Science Monitor By Howard LaFranchi
MS-13 gang is a violent group engaged in the drug, sex, and human trafficking trades in the US. Designating MS-13 gang a transnational criminal organization helps US officials target it more aggressively.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Activism
Disabled Vet Labeled “Terrorist” For Investigating Cost Of Surveillance Cameras
10-12-2012
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Prison Planet Paul Joseph Watson
Characterization was reprisal for open records request, charges Elbert County man
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Egypt
Rival protesters clash in Egypt's capital
10-12-2012
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Aljazeera
A least 100 people injured after clashes breakout during rival rallies in Cairo's Tahrir Square after Friday prayers.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • European Union
Eurozone crisis: summer promise quickly evaporating
10-12-2012
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The Guardian
After a few months in which policymakers believed they might have turned the corner, the gloom is descending
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News Link • History
How Cuba won the missile crisis
10-12-2012
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The Guardian Richard Gott
Half a century ago, in October 1962, the world woke up to the Cuban missile crisis. The Russians were unloading nuclear missiles on Cuba, and the Americans were demanding they be withdrawn.
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News Link • Mexican United States Relations
Border Patrol agent shoots at rock throwers in Mexico
10-11-2012
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AP
A U.S. Border Patrol agent shot at a group of people throwing rocks across the fence with Mexico in Nogales, Ariz., Wednesday night and may have murdered one person.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Voting and Elections
Press Release- Victor Stings Flake
10-11-2012
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Victor For Senate
Libertarian U.S. Senate nominee Marc J. Victor made the most of his obviously curtailed participation in the Senate debate Wednesday night with several critical remarks directed at the supposed “libertarian” record of Republican Rep. Jeff Flake.
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Mike Wasdin
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News Link • Homeland Security
Fusion Centers Are Designed to Spy On the American People
10-11-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Kurt Nimmo
Soon after the Senate Homeland Security Committee’s Subcommittee on Investigations issued a report stating that fusion centers not only violate the constitutional rights of Americans, but are also a colossal waste of tax payer money, the committee is
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News Link • Philosophy: Political
Government in America!
10-11-2012
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http://www.thedailybell.com, by Tibor Machan
The central achievement of the American Revolution was to demote government to a role of cop on the beat.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Military
Remember October 10th, 1995 - Army spc Michael New - An American Patriot!
10-11-2012
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http://www.dailypaul.com, nofedirs
Tomorrow marks the 17th Anniversary of Army spc Michael New's Act of Patriotism!!
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Seriously?
NYPD Slaps Cyclist With The Biggest Red Light Ticket We've Seen
10-11-2012
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Business Insider
You'd be hard-pressed to find an urban cyclist who hasn't run a red light on a deserted street, pedaled the wrong way down a one-way street, or sailed past stop signs once in a while.
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News Link • Food
Paleo Diet Lawsuit Dismissed By Court in Blow to Free Expression
10-11-2012
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Reason magazine
A state licensing board in North Carolina tried to suppress a blogger who advised the health benefits of the "paleo" diet (that is, eating as we think cavement ate, no grains or processed foods), telling him what he could or could not say
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News Link • Economy - International
Chinese Banks Could Be Delivering A Blow To The Nation's Economy
10-11-2012
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businessinsider.com
In an effort to boost growth amid the nation's economic slowdown, the Chinese government allowed banks to lower borrowing costs back in July.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Another Isolated Incident
10-11-2012
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The Agitator
Brown, a 58-year-old who works in building design, said he supports law enforcement in general. But he said innocent bystanders shouldn’t be subject to such dangerous and damaging searches without any compensation.
“I was scared to death,” he said
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Reality Check: Is SCOTUS Putting An End To "Personal" Property?
10-11-2012
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http://www.youtube.com, BenSwannRealityCheck
Ben Swann Reality Check takes a look at a case before the Supreme Court that would mean the end "first rule principle" for selling personal property that origniates overseas.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Drugging Kids into Submission
10-11-2012
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Lew Rockwell blog
The state-enforced public school prison with its social conditioning is colossally bad for the student, and when poor result shows we blame the student with a psych-based diagnosis and give him a chemical straight-jacket to "help" him.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
Kucinich: US 'Immeasurably' Closer to War in Syria
10-11-2012
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http://www.usnews.com, By Steven Nelson
Democratic congressman: Obama deployed troops 'without notifying Congress'
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Thug who wore T-shirt with vile 'one less pig' after murders of 2 police jailed 8 months
10-11-2012
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Daily Mail
A man who wore a T-shirt with offensive comments about the murders of Pc Fiona Bone and Pc Nicola Hughes on it just hours after they died has been sentenced to eight months in prison.
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News Link • Afghanistan
US Drone Strike Kills 16 in Pakistan’s Orakzai Agency
10-11-2012
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http://news.antiwar.com, by Jason Ditz
Several Afghans Reportedly Among the Slain
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
Silver Circle Releases at New York Comic Con 2012
10-11-2012
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www.silvercirclemovie.com
From Thursday, October 11 to Sunday, October 14, LinePlot Productions will have a booth at the New York Comic Con (NYCC) promoting the imminent release their upcoming film, Silver Circle
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News Link • Economy - International
S&P downgrades Spain’s credit rating 2 notches to lowest investment-grade level
10-10-2012
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AP
Standard & Poor’s downgraded its rating on Spain’s debt by 2 notches, leaving it on the cusp of junk status. A grinding recession, high unemployment and social unrest are limiting the government’s options for stemming the country’s financial crisis,
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News Link • Technology: Software
Former SEALs Market iPhone App That The Government Hates
10-10-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Geoffrey Ingersoll
The first line to a recent story on Buzzfeed is enough to make anyone break out a tinfoil hat ... or at the very least buy a new App designed by Navy SEALs.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
Congress Tries to Force U.S. Army to Accept New Tanks on Behalf of Defense Contractors
10-11-2012
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Opposing Views
More than 2,000 M-1 Abrams tanks are sitting in a parking lot in Herlong, California because of a disagreement between the U.S. Army, Congress and the military industrial complex.
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Technology: Computer Hardware
The Patent, Used as a Sword
10-10-2012
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New York Times
Mr. Ricci issued an ultimatum: Mr. Phillips could sell his firm to Mr. Ricci or be sued for patent infringements. When Mr. Phillips refused to sell, Mr. Ricci’s company filed the first of six lawsuits.
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News Link • TERRORISM
Pakistanis Unite in Outrage Over Girl’s Shooting by Taliban
10-10-2012
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New York Times
Doctors on Wednesday removed a bullet from a Pakistani schoolgirl shot by the Taliban, as Pakistanis from across the political and religious spectrum united in revulsion at the attack on the 14-year-old education rights campaigner.
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News Link • TERRORISM
Court Asks if a Gang Member Is a Terrorist
10-10-2012
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New York Times
There seemed to be little question that Edgar Morales was a man of ill repute back in the day. He was a member of the St. James Boys, a Mexican-American youth gang that ran roughshod over a stretch of the Bronx, and he was convicted for his role in a
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News Link • Syria
Turkey forces Syrian passenger plane to land
10-10-2012
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Washington Post
Turkish fighter jets forced a Syrian passenger plane to land in Ankara on amid suspicions that it may have been carrying arms, exacerbating already high tensions with Syria that have raised fears that a wider war may be imminent.
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News Link • Privacy Rights
Sheriff Wants Drones To Peek Inside Buildings
10-10-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Paul Joseph Watson
Sheriff Gregory Ahern wants to put Alameda County on the map as the first jurisdiction in California to use surveillance drones for law enforcement purposes.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Currencies
Ben Swann: Reality Check: Is This The End of The Petro-dollar?
10-10-2012
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http://www.dailypaul.com, Brian Frank
Ben Swann Reality Check explains the petro-dollar and looks at how the national media isn't telling you that China is actively working to end it.
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