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Date Sent: 2012-10-14
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Sunday, October 14, 2012 |
Israel threatens action against Gaza aid ship--Turkey condemns UN inertia as Syrian conflict deepens
Daredevil's Record-Breaking Supersonic Skydive Attempt Now -- Rosa Koire on Agenda 21 -- Infomercials for Despots -- Washington Plays Hardball with Russia on Syria -- Help Ron Paul Win the Nobel Peace Prize -- Element 113 Discovery Claimed -- Best Doug Casey Speech Ever! An Anarchist, Economic Collapse & 7 Billion Chimpanzees -- China calls on U.S. and Japan to fix their finances -- British
hacker's suicide fears may beat extradition to the US -- Islamic
hardliners in Mali increase threats as France pushes for
intervention -- Missing journalist in Syria possibly kidnapped
-- UN extends Haiti peacekeeping mission -- Europe's independence seekers:
Scotland, Catalonia, and now ... Venice -- IMF urges quick,
effective moves to buoy growth -- ‘Europe can be strong without
euro’ -- Deadly car bomb rocks Pakistan town -- Syrian
opposition 'captures' soldiers
NH: Announcing the format of the Cheshire County
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News Link • Israel - Palestine
Israel threatens action against Gaza aid ship
10-13-2012
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Aljazeera
Israel has warned to confront by force a Gaza-bound ship if it tries to break the blockade of the Palestinian territory, a Finnish foreign ministry spokesman has said.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Syria
Turkey condemns U.N. inertia as Syrian conflict deepens
10-13-2012
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Reuters
Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan rebuked the U.N. Security Council for inaction over Syria on Saturday as war intensified across the country, saying the world body of superpowers was repeating mistakes that led to massacres in Bosnia in the 1990
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Activism
Help Ron Paul Win the Nobel Peace Prize
10/13/2012
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Change.org
Sign this petition to Nominate US Congressman Dr. Ron Paul for the Nobel Peace Prize.
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Devon Miller
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News Link • Science
Element 113 Discovery Claimed
10-13-2012
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arclein
When the zinc and bismuth atoms fused, they produced an atom with 113 protons. This atom decayed, incredibly rapidly, into a series of daughter products, each an alpha particle (two protons and two neutrons) lighter than the parent atom. The daughte
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Erectile Biochemistry
10-13-2012
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arclein
study of mice, Burnett and his colleagues found a complex positive feedback loop in the penile nerves that triggers waves of nitric oxide to keep the penis erect. He says they now understand that the nerve impulses that originate from the brain and
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robert klein
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News Link • Geology
Crustal Breakup
10-13-2012
The quake was caused by at least four undersea fault ruptures southwest of Sumatra, Indonesia, within a 2-minute, 40-second period. It killed at least two people, and eight others died from heart attacks. The quake was felt from India to Australia, i
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robert klein
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News Link • U F O and Other Unidentified Stuff
Roswell Witness Exon
10-13-2012
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arclein
He told me he had been the Commander of Wright Patterson Air Force Base and knew quite a bit about Roswell. Among the things that Exon was very specific about was that everybody "from Truman on down" had known about the Roswell incident from the da
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robert klein
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News Link • Philosophy of Liberty
Best Doug Casey Speech Ever! An Anarchist, Economic Collapse & 7 Billion Chimpanzees
10-13-2012
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http://www.dailypaul.com/
This is Doug Casey at Libertopia, this is without a doubt his best speech ever. He holds no punches amongst fellow libertarians and anarchists.
Oct 12 2012 (Friday)
This is informative and excellent!
Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?featur
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Jack Spratt
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
World's Highest Skydive! Daredevil Makes Record-Breaking Supersonic Jump
10-13-2012
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Space
Successfully jumped from 128,000 feet. Landed safely. Broke speed of sound barrier, highest accent in a balloon for a human and highest freefall. But was traveling too fast to exceed longest time in freefall.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - International
China calls on U.S. and Japan to fix their finances
10-13-2012
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Raw Story
China said Saturday the failure by Washington and Tokyo to fix their fiscal problems was hurting the global economy, as it called for “bold, swift and decisive action” to reverse a slowdown.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Here's Why The Best Way To Watch The Election Debates Is On The Xbox
10-13-2012
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Business Insider
While you're watching the debates on cable and network television, there's another outlet making election coverage interactive, and it's not an app.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Books
This Is One Of The Most Remarkable Survival Stories You Will Ever Read
10-13-2012
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Business Insider
In 1985, two young British climbers, Joe Simpson and Simon Yates, became the first to ascend the west face of Siula Grande, a 21,000-foot peak in the Peruvian Andes.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
British hacker's suicide fears may beat extradition to the US
10-13-2012
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RT.com
Hopes were raised that British computer hacker Gary McKinnon may win his ten-year legal battle against extradition to the US after a Home Office medical report warns he may commit suicide if tried stateside.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • World News
Islamic hardliners in Mali increase threats as France pushes for intervention
10-13-2012
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RT.com
Islamists in northern Mali threaten to “open the doors of hell” to French citizens in the area if France keeps pushing for military intervention. A quarter of a million refugees have fled Mali's north since Sharia law was implemented there in March
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Syria
Missing journalist in Syria possibly kidnapped
10-13-2012
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RT.com
A 40-year-old Ukrainian journalist collaborating with several Russian news outlets went missing in Syria. Colleagues and relatives believe she may have been kidnapped.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • World News
UN extends Haiti peacekeeping mission
10-13-2012
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Aljazeera
Security Council votes to renew mandate for one year, but with steep staff reduction and focus on police training.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Mercury Levels in Tuna ‘Higher than Ever’ " Limit Consumption to Reduce Mercury Exposure, Poisoning
10-13-2012
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Prison Planet
While the FDA claims you can have as much as 12 ounces a week of light tuna and up to 6 ounces of albacore, test results from the Mercury Policy Project (MPP) say these amounts are much too high.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Activism
Europe's independence seekers: Scotland, Catalonia, and now ... Venice
10-13-2012
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Christian Science Monitor
Activists in Venice and northeastern Italy want to restore independence to the region, which had been a republic for more than 1,000 years before falling to Napoleon in 1797.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Huge eyeball still unidentified
10-13-2012
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Sun Sentinel
The owner of the huge eyeball that washed ashore in Pompano Beach this week remained a mystery Friday, although scientists are optimistic they will be able to identify it.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - International
IMF urges quick, effective moves to buoy growth
10-13-2012
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Associated Press ELAINE KURTENBACH
Global financial ministers called Saturday for quick and effective action to safeguard faltering economic growth and rebuild shaken confidence as they ended an annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • European Union
‘Europe can be strong without euro’
10-13-2012
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rt.com
Uniting nations under a single currency is a bad idea, Austrian billionaire-turned-politician Frank Stronach told RT. The eurozone's single currency is crippling the EU, and Stronach aims to demonstrate to the world that it can live without the euro.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • World News
Deadly car bomb rocks Pakistan town
10-13-2012
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Aljazeera
Fifteen dead and dozens injured by bomb targeting pro-government militia in Darra Adam Khel town in northwest Pakistan.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Syria
Syrian opposition 'captures' soldiers
10-13-2012
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Aljazeera
Syrian opposition fighters release video claiming they have captured more than 200 prisoners in the province of Idlib.
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Robert Lee
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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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Powell Gammill
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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 - Election Integrity
'Fired' GOP Operative Sproul's Companies Appear Still Hard at Work for GOP;
10-11-2012
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http://www.bradblog.com, By Brad Friedman
Evidence reveals Romney consultant at center of GOP Voter Registration Fraud Scandal still working for Repubs in 7 10 states
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Libya
Here's What Actually Went Down During The US Consulate Attack Last Month In Benghazi
Robert Johnson Business Insider
September 10 was a normal day in Benghazi for Ambassador Chris Stevens.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • World News
Huawei, The Chinese Equipment Maker Accused Of Spying, Has Long Relied On IBM
10-11-2012
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Business Insider
This week, a congressional report warned the U.S. government and American companies from doing business with Chinese network-equipment maker Huawei, saying it benefitted from state assistance and labeling it a security threat.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
CBS' Lara Logan Slams US Government And Says The Taliban Is As Strong As Ever
10-11-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com,
Blaze readers are likely familiar with CBS correspondent, Lara Logan, the wartime journalist who endured a horrific ordeal in Egypt last summer when she was beaten and sexually assaulted by a mob of angry Egyptian men during their Arab Spring “celebr
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Robert Lee
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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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Robert Lee
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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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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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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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Powell Gammill
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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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Robert Lee
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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 • Privacy Rights
Citing privacy concerns, U.S. panel urges end to secret DNA testing
10-11-2012
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http://www.reuters.com, By Sharon Begley
They're called discreet DNA samples, and the Elk Grove, California, genetic-testing company easyDNA says it can handle many kinds, from toothpicks to tampons.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - International
Rating cut piles pressure on Spain to seek aid
10-11-2012
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reuters.com, By Paul Day and Rodrigo De Miguel
Spain faced renewed pressure to take the politically humiliating step of seeking sovereign aid on Thursday after a credit agency cut its rating to near junk, triggering a spike in its borrowing costs.
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Robert Lee
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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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Robert Lee
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News Link • Voting and Elections
Video: Unions Fine Members Who Don't Show Support for Elizabeth Warren
10-11-2012
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Weekly Standard
A GOP source sends along this video, shot by a Republican tracker, of a union member supporting Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren outside of a debate Wednesday night in Springfield, Massachusetts. The cameraman asks the union member if he
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