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Date Sent: 2012-10-15
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Monday, October 15, 2012 PM edition |
Syrian rivals battle over strategic cities
Study shows $1.2 trillion gap for public pensions -- The Future Of The Ron Paul Revolution -- Compelling Election or Last Gasp of US Representative Democracy? -- The Economic Case for Right-to-Work --
How ‘scientific poisoners’ threaten the future of life on planet Earth
-- Are Election Riots Coming if Obama Loses? -- Second City ‘Partisans’
mock Paul Ryan: ‘I’m really good at math -- Portugal braces for
austerity-laden budget -- Sept. 11 trial rules under scrutiny at
Guantanamo -- How The Military Really Treats Same-Sex Spouses -- Ron Johnson Really Is Destroying JC Penney -- Alvin Roth And Lloyd Shapley Win The Nobel Prize For Economics -- Intensified Warrantless Spying in America - by Stephen Lendman
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News Link • Syria
Syrian rivals battle over strategic cities
10-15-2012
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Aljazeera
Rebels push Syrian army out of Maarat Al Numan as fighting over vital northern cities intensifies.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Study shows $1.2 trillion gap for public pensions
10-15-2012
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Reuters
The largest 100 public pension funds have around $1.2 trillion of unfunded liabilities, about $300 billion above the nearly $900 billion they reported themselves. The pension systems reported a median funding level of 75.1 percent.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • General Opinion
If Two Men Go Into the Woods Without a Police Officer, How Many Will Come Out Alive?
10-15-2012
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Lewrockwell.com
A few weeks ago, I was lounging on the edge of a beautiful corn field in Eastern Colorado having one of the most interesting conversations of my entire life, although I didn’t realize it at the time.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Conservative Radio Host: TSA Groped My Vagina
10-15-2012
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Prison Planet
Conservative radio host and Breitbart Editor Dana Loesch had her vagina groped during an advanced screening by the TSA at Phoenix Airport, with Loesch complaining that she is targeted for such treatment almost every time she flies.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • European Union
EU bans import of Iranian gas to European countries " German FM
10-15-2012
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RT.com
EU governments have agreed to one of the toughest sets of sanctions against Iran's nuclear program.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - International
Meeting a ‘democratic deficit’: Belgian separatists advancing to independence
10-15-2012
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RT.com
Separatists in Belgium are looking to gain control of the wealthy port of Antwerp as early results suggest a Flemish nationalist leader is the city's new mayor. It comes amid an intensifying trend of secessionism in crisis-hit Europe.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Today We Got A PERFECT Snapshot Of What's Happening To The US Economy
10-15-2012
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Business Insider
At 8:30 AM ET today, we got a perfect snapshot of what's happening in the US economy.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Free Trade
Supreme Court To Decide "First Sale Doctrine"
10-15-2012
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Free Press Publications
On October 29, the US Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in the case of Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons. The case revolves around the “first sale doctrine” which allows the owner of a lawfully obtained copyrighted work to dispose of that copy with
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Darryl W. Perry
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News Link • Science
He Made It!
10-15-2012
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arclein
The biggest risk Baumgartner faced was spinning out of control, which could have exerted g-force and made him lose consciousness. A controlled dive from the capsule was essential, putting him in a head-down position to increase speed.
More gruesom
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robert klein
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News Link • Economy - International
End of Growth?
10-15-2012
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arclein
Nowadays having more people, if educated, is good, not bad. That’s what’s wrong with one-child policies and Malthusian anxieties and the like. For example, sub-Saharan Africa, with its great genetic variability, will become the centre of world civili
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robert klein
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News Link • Science
Redating Gorilla Evolution
10-15-2012
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arclein
"We used to believe, based on genetic information, DNA studies and molecular studies, that the splits between chimpanzees and the human line on one side and the gorilla line on the other side … happened around eight million years ago," said paleont
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robert klein
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
QE Infinity
10-15-2012
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arclein
On one hand, you could let them all default. The problem is the criminal liabilities would drive the global and national leadership into factionalism that could turn violent, not to mention what such defaults would do to liquidity in the financial sy
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robert klein
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News Link • Voting and Elections
Supreme Court to take up Arizona voter registration
10-15-2012
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Reuters
The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to consider whether Arizona may demand that voters show proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote in federal elections.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • r3VOLution Continues
The Future Of The Ron Paul Revolution
10-15-2012
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undercoverporcupine.bangordailynews
There’s been much discussion about the future of the Ron Paul people. The easy conclusion is it is a difficult call to make, given the fact that the movement itself is extremely diverse and full of individuals with strong conviction.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Philosophy: Political
Compelling Election or Last Gasp of US Representative Democracy?
10-15-2012
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The Daily Bell
As the U.S. prepares to vote, the world watches ... America's friends around the globe are watching the presidential elections with a mixture of horror and hope.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Employment & Jobs
The Economic Case for Right-to-Work
10-15-2012
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The Daily Bell
The current economic crisis that has gripped the United States over the last several years has been especially negative in its affects on the levels and opportunities for employment in various parts of the country.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • General Opinion
How ‘scientific poisoners’ threaten the future of life on planet Earth
10-15-2012
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Prison Planet
There is a battle being waged for your mind. To the victor comes influence over your beliefs, you purchase decisions, and even your values.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Politics: Democratic Campaigns
Are Election Riots Coming if Obama Loses?
10-15-2012
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Prison Planet
Alex covers the Internet firestorm of tweets and Facebook posts from people pledging to riot if Obama loses the election, as covered in Michael Snyder’s article “Will the Election Results Cause Massive Riots to Erupt All Over America?”
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Humor
Second City ‘Partisans’ mock Paul Ryan: ‘I’m really good at math
10-15-2012
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Raw Story
Second City’s latest parody video "Behind The Scenes At The Paul Ryan Workout Shoot" satirizes the now-infamous Time Magazine photo feature Paul Ryan: All Pumped Up for His Closeup.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - International
Portugal braces for austerity-laden budget
10-15-2012
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Aljazeera
Draft budget set to raise taxes despite austerity fatigue and can push Portugal into a recessive spiral like Greece.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • 911 / World Trade Center
Sept. 11 trial rules under scrutiny at Guantanamo
10-15-2012
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Associated Press
A U.S. military judge is considering broad security rules for the war crimes tribunal of five Guantanamo prisoners charged in the Sept. 11 attacks.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Military
How The Military Really Treats Same-Sex Spouses
10-15-2012
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Business Insider
When the first of October rolled in a couple of weeks ago it reminded many of us that summer was really over.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Entrepreneurship
Ron Johnson Really Is Destroying JC Penney
10-15-2012
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Business Insider
Make no mistake: Ron Johnson is in the midst of the retail disaster of the decade. His arrogance will cost 1,000s of people their jobs while destroying “America’s Favorite Brand.”
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Robert Lee
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News Link • World News
Alvin Roth And Lloyd Shapley Win The Nobel Prize For Economics
10-15-2012
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Business Insider
The Nobel Prize for Economics has been awarded to American game theorists Alvin Roth and Lloyd Shapley.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Homeland Security
Mexican mayor says boy shot by US agent 7 times
10-14-2012
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AP
A teenage boy apparently killed this week by a U.S. Border Patrol agent was hit seven times by gunfire and died on a sidewalk just across the Arizona-Mexico border, a mayor in Mexico said Friday.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Environment
Global warming stopped 16 years ago, reveals Met Office report quietly released
10-14-2012
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Daily Mail
From the beginning of 1997 until August 2012 there was no discernible rise in aggregate global temperatures. This means the ‘pause’ in global warming has lasted for the same time as the previous period when temperatures rose, 1980 to 1996.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Public trust strained as Jackson County drug task force shooting details unfold
10-14-2012
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"This is just an unfortunate case that has caused some public doubt," Moss Point police Chief Keith Davis said. "At the end of the day, I want the public to be able to trust law enforcement in Jackson County."
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Texas Cops Arrest Pair for Reposting Undercover Cop's Facebook Photo
10-14-2012
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Photography Is Not a Crime
A Texas woman who came across a Facebook photo of an undercover cop was arrested after she posted the photo on her own Facebook page. Melissa Walthall was charged with retaliation, a felony charge that can land her in prison for ten years.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Syria
Russia: Syria Jet Carrying Perfectly Legal Radar Parts
10-14-2012
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AntiWar
While the Turkish government has refused to provide any details about the supposedly “objectionable” material they seized from a detained Syrian passenger plane this week, Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov has provided some details.
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Powell Gammill
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Opinion • Healthcare
Words Eye View
Marked for Death
10-14-2012
Greg J Dixon
On October 12, at approximately 11 am, I heard Neal Boortz make the following statement on his radio program ...
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News Link • General Opinion
Pariahs among us: Sex offender laws in the 21st century
10-14-2012
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Aljazeera
Stringent sex offender laws in the United States destroy lives and do little to mitigate repeat offences.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Privacy Rights
Dear John: US police use public humiliation to fight prostitution
10-14-2012
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RT.com
Hiring a prostitute is no longer an anonymous act: men who pay for sex now face public humiliation as a form of punishment.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Activism
Global Noise takes on austerity: 'We are not going to be silent'
10-14-2012
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RT.com
Demonstrators across the world are calling for an end to austerity as Global Noise protests kick off in more than 30 countries, including many in the Nobel Peace laureate European Union.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Horrors of war: US, UK munitions ‘cause birth defects in Iraq’
10-14-2012
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RT.com
US and UK weapons ammunition were linked to heart defects, brain dysfunctions and malformed limbs, according to a recent study. The report revealed a shocking rise in birth defects in Iraqi children conceived after the US invasion.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • World News
Hundreds of police storm Brazilian slums
10-14-2012
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RT.com
Brazilian troops and police swept through Rio’s most infamous slums in a pre-dawn raid, backed up by helicopters and tanks. The “pacification” mission is intended to bring the crime-ridden favelas to heel before the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympics.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Bernanke defends Fed stimulus as China, Brazil raise concerns
10-14-2012
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Reuters
* Bernanke defends Fed policy from foreign critics
* Brazil says U.S. policy unfair, China warns on inflation
* Bernanke blames some emerging economies' forex policies for tensions
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Longtime GOP Senate moderate Arlen Specter dies
10-14-2012
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AP
Former U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter, the outspoken Pennsylvania centrist whose switch from Republican to Democrat ended a 30-year career in which he played a pivotal role in several Supreme Court nominations, died Sunday. He was 82.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Wounded Mauritania president flown to Paris
10-14-2012
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Aljazeera
Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz makes televised appeal for calm after soldiers allegedly open fire on his convoy by mistake.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • World News
Chile envoy in Ghana over held Argentine ship
10-14-2012
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Aljazeera
Chile will send envoys to Ghana in an attempt to persuade the West African nation to release an Argentine navy ship seized over a dispute with creditors, a top government official has said.
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Robert Lee
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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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News Link • Afghanistan
UK may speed troop pullout in 2013 over Marines shooting scandal
10-14-2012
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RT.com
The UK plans to pull troops out of Afghanistan in 2013 following the arrest of 9 Marines for the suspected murder of an unarmed militant. Britain is also under pressure to quit the costly war as the economic downturn has drained military coffers.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Israel - Palestine
IAF hits Gaza for 3rd time in 24 hours, death toll up to 5
10-14-2012
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Jpost.com
Israel Air Force hits rocket-launching terror cell in central Gaza, east of Deir el-Balah, killing 2 and injuring 2; 5 global jihadi members have been killed in Israeli strikes in past day amid ongoing rocket attacks.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Military
USS Montpelier Submarine And USS San Jacinto Aegis Cruiser Crash, Says Navy
10-14-2012
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Huffington Post.
The Pentagon said late Saturday that it is investigating why a Navy submarine collided with an Aegis cruiser off the East Coast.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Syria
Syria: New Evidence Military Dropped Cluster Bombs
10-14-2012
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Huffington Post.
New evidence has emerged that the Syrian air force has used cluster munitions in recent days, Human Rights Watch said today.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Batch of $100 Bills Stolen From Plane
10-14-2012
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AP
Federal authorities are warning merchants to be on the lookout for stolen $100 bills that aren't supposed to go into circulation until next. The bills were stolen from an airplane that landed in Philadelphia from Dallas Thursday morning.
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Jean Carbonneau
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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 • 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 • 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 • 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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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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