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Date Sent: 2012-10-23
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Tuesday, October 23, 2012 PM edition |
NYPD paid informant to ‘bait’ Muslims and spy on mosques
More Entrapment that is of course 'not entrapment' -- Female Student Drops Cake. Assaulted by School Security --
Silver Circle Announces First Screening at Silver Summit Thurs, Oct
25th, 2012 6:30 p.m. (PST) -- SOPA? CISPA? WHATEVER. THE GOVERNMENT’S
LONG TERM STRATEGY IS NSTIC -- Dow Drops 250 After Earnings, DuPont Skids 9% -- Lance Armstrong Stripped -- KPHO TV (CBS) Declares Obama Wins 2012 Election! -- Accused Cole bomber seeks to halt Guantanamo trial -- Arizona ballot measure contests ownership of the Grand Canyon -- Direct US/Iran Nuclear Talks -- Israeli Commandos Electro-Torture Ship to Gaza Activists
Historic Presidential Debate (online/satellite) - Today, October 23; RT presents third-party presidential
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
NYPD paid informant to ‘bait’ Muslims and spy on mosques
10-23-2012
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Rawstory
An American of Bengali descent says the NYPD paid him to spy on mosques and “bait” Muslims into talking about jihad and terrorism. He agreed facing several misdemeanor arrests for marijuana would result in serious legal consequences..
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
More Entrapment that is of course 'not entrapment'
10-23-2012
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Lew Rockwell blog
Here’s yet another fake “crime” that the Feds ginned up: two “workers” at Houston’s airport agreed to smuggle heroin onto international flights after “undercover investigators” suborned them.
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Female Student Drops Cake. Assaulted by School Security
10-23-2012
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Lew Rockwell blog
A bully security guard with bad boy-style shaved head pounced on a skinny, young girl in a school cafeteria in Palmdale, CA. The girl had committed a crime by dropping a piece of cake on the floor. She cleaned it up, but a security guard repeatedly b
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
Silver Circle Announces First Screening at Silver Summit Thurs, Oct 25th, 2012 6:30 p.m. (PST)
10-23-2012
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www.silvercirclemovie.com
Silver Circle is an animated dystopian thriller, set after an inflationary economic crash in 2019, which pits a group of rebels, who have created their own silver currency as a solution to the crisis, against an out-of-control Federal Reserve.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Cyberspace and the New Economy
SOPA? CISPA? WHATEVER. THE GOVERNMENT’S LONG TERM STRATEGY IS NSTIC
10-23-2012
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Associates Mind at reddit
We've seen Congress legislation of the week is SOPA, PIPA, CISPA, the Executive Orders and now the UN's run on "cyberterrorism". Those creative distratctions are all leading away from the mother of Brave New World longterm strategy seated.
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Sheila Dean
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Today on LewRockwell.com - Tuesday October 23rd 2012
10-23-2012
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www.LewRockwell.com
Why I Won't Vote / Top 11 Movies About Politics / Your Money Isn't Safe
/ Modern Wheat Is Toxic / Dangerous Books? / The Sad History of US Peace Negotiations
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Dow Drops 250 After Earnings, DuPont Skids 9%
10-23-2012
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CNBC
Stocks traded near session lows Tuesday, with the Dow down nearly 250 points, following a batch of disappointing quarterly results and amid worries over Spain's economy. The Dow and S&P 500 are seeing their worst one-day drop since June.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Archaeology
Complex Brains Half a Billion Years Old
10-23-2012
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arclein
The remarkably well-preserved fossil of an extinct arthropodshows that anatomically complex brains evolved earlier than previously thought and have changed little over the course of evolution. According to University of Arizona neurobiologist Nichola
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Lance Armstrong Stripped
10-23-2012
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arclein
On Oct. 10, USADA published a report into Armstrong which alleged the now-retired rider had been involved in the “most sophisticated, professionalized and successful doping program that sport has ever seen.”
Armstrong, 41, had previously elected not
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Accused Cole bomber seeks to halt Guantanamo trial
10-23-2012
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AP
A U.S. military war tribunal is weighing a question: How long has the United States been at war? The question is more than academic for Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, whose appearing before the tribunal at Guantanamo, to seek the dismissal of war crimes ch
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Arizona ballot measure contests ownership of the Grand Canyon
10-23-2012
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Reuters
Proposition 120 would amend the state's constitution to declare Arizona's sovereignty and jurisdiction over the "air, water, public lands, minerals, wildlife and other natural resources within the state's boundaries."
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Reference Link • Gulf Oil Spill
Are Louisiana’s Coastal Areas Going To Be Evacuated?
www.thecommonsenseshow.com
The conditions in the Gulf Coast region are so bad, that some are actually talking about a mass evacuation of the coastal regions in Louisiana. Others think the potential devastation is so dangerous that the entire Gulf Coast region should be evacua
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News Link • Internet
Ron Paul's Texas Straight Talk 10/22/12: Internet Freedom is Vital for Human Freedom
10-22-2012
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by legalizeliberty
Ron Paul's Texas Straight Talk 10/22/12: Internet Freedom is Vital for Human Freedom
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Iraq
American bombing of Iraq left legacy of deformed babies: Siddiqui
10-22-2012
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http://www.thestar.com, By Haroon Siddiqui
Remember Falluja? That city in central Iraq was the scene of two furious attacks in 2004 by American Marines.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Drug War
Who Watches the Watchers?
10-22-2012
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http://www.thedailybell.com, by Staff Report
By now enough has emerged about the pharmaceutical industry to provide us with insights that legal drugs are not, in many cases, any safer than so-called illegal ones.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Military
Myths of Iraq and Afghanistan
10-22-2012
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http://www.chicagotribune.com, Steve Chapman
When Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said the other day the U.S. war in Afghanistan is "succeeding" and "has turned an important corner," I could have sworn I had heard that before. Where could it have been?
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Military
Anxious Turks suspect US plot is behind Syria's implosion
10-22-2012
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http://www.csmonitor.com, By Emiko Jozuka
Locals in eastern Turkey, bearing the brunt of the fallout from Turkey's involvement in Syria, believe Ankara is merely a pawn in US plans to foment conflict in the region.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Wary Swiss Banks Shun Yanks
10-22-2012
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http://online.wsj.com, By ANITA GREIL
When Scott Schmith finally got his Swiss passport last month, it was time for him to take a drastic step: hand back his American one.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Eugenics in education: Healthy boy banned from public school due to genetic makeup
10-22-2012
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www.prisonplanet.com
An 11-year-old California schoolboy named Colman Chadam has been banished from his school and forced to transfer to another school because he carries the genetic mutation for cystic fibrosis.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Germany’s court of Audit gets suspicious as Germans not getting access to check gold reserves abroad
10-22-2012
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www.rumormillnews.com
As the german "Bild" newspaper reported on Monday, Bundesbank (Germany’s central bank) board member Carl-Ludwig Thiele had addressed a letter to Mißfelder and Wanderwitz. In the letter, the German banker writes, that the central banks in Paris and Lo
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Russian Nuclear Forces Ordered On “High Alert” Over US War Fears
10-22-2012
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http://newswalls.blogspot.com
A grim report issued today by Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov states that all Russian nuclear forces and Airborne Troops (VDV) have been ordered by President Putin to extend their full combat alert status put into place by former President Medvede
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Alex Oscar
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News Link • Activism
South Korean activists send leaflets to North Korea
10-22-2012
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AP
South Korean police, citing security concerns, sent hundreds of officers Monday to seal off roads and prevent the activists and other people from gathering at an announced launch site near the border.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Russia's jailed punk rock band members sent to prison camps
10-22-2012
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Reuters
The women's lawyers said tried to argue they should be allowed to remain in jail in Moscow, saying it would have permitted them to be closer to their small children. They had also cited health and safety concerns at far-flung penal colonies.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
SpaceX Designing Massive New Engine
10-22-2012
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arclein
Musk said the new rocket, which he calls MCT, will be "several times" as powerful as the 1 Merlin series, and won't use Merlin's RP-1 fuel. Beyond adding that it will have "a very big core size", he declined to elaborate, promising more details
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robert klein
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News Link • Death
Russell Means, Indian activist, actor, dies at 72
10-22-2012
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AP
Russell Means never shunned attention. Whether leading Native Americans in railing against broken federal treaties, helped lead the 1973 uprising at Wounded Knee or advocating a sovereign American Indian nation within U.S. borders,
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News Link • Congress-Congressmen
George McGovern was another political scumbag until he bought an Inn
10-22-2012
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Free Republic
Name a tax hike, spending bill or new regulation, and very likely McGovern supported it. But after he left the Senate in 1981, something happened that profoundly changed several of his most deeply held views. McGovern went into business
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News Link • TERRORISM
“Homegrown Terrorism” and Terrorism by Association
10-22-2012
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http://www.globalresearch.ca, by Michael S. Rozeff
How misleading can a “news” article get? Try this headline: “Federal Reserve bombing plot foiled in NYC”.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Wallet Voting
US Election Concern: What Is There To Vote For?
10-22-2012
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http://www.globalresearch.ca, By Danny Schechter
As Americans prepare to go to the polls, the airwaves are littered with paid advertising of the crassest and most manipulative kind. Political issues packaged by ad agencies are flooding the arena of politics with nasty negative ads.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Technology: Software
Government Not Happy With App That Allows Users To Encrypt Cell Phone Communications
10-22-2012
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http://govtslaves.info, Ryan Gallagher
Lately, Mike Janke has been getting what he calls the “hairy eyeball” from international government agencies.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Employment & Jobs
Obama And Romney Both Favor A System That Kills American Jobs
10-22-2012
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http://govtslaves.info, Michael Snyder
Either way this election turns out, American jobs are going to continue to get slaughtered by the millions.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - International
Max Keiser: How To Defeat The Banking Mafia
10-22-2012
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http://govtslaves.info, Thomas Dishaw
Max Keiser makes his way to the “money bomb” discussing the global banking mafia and how it affects you.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
CIA claims it needs more drones
10-22-2012
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http://rt.com
The CIA has asked the White House to increase the number of drones it employs to transform it into a paramilitary force, despite recent statistics that show the majority of drone deaths are civilians.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Internet
Facebook blocks Swiss newspaper for publishing nude photo
10-21-2012
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Rawstory
The Swiss daily Tribune de Geneve said Friday it had its Facebook account blocked by the social networking giant after publishing an explicit image of a woman’s genitals.
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Disinformation and the CIA
10-21-2012
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Lew Rockwell blog
Check out this curious official reference by the CIA to the Soviet article Wayne Madsen describes today in his LRC contribution, “Rockefeller Global Tentacles Exposed in 1959 by the Soviet Union.”
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
CIA chiefs face arrest over horrific evidence of bloody 'video-game' sorties by drone pilots
10-21-2012
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Daily Mail
The strikes’ targets sets out in heartbreaking detail the deaths of teachers, students and Pakistani policemen. It also describes how bereaved relatives are forced to gather their loved ones’ dismembered body parts in the aftermath of strikes.
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News Link • Iran
Washington denies secret plan for direct talks with Iran
10-21-2012
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The Guardian
Obama administration responds to report that both sides have agreed in principle to one-on-one discussions after election. The Obama administration has moved quickly to water down a report that the US and Iran have agreed in principle to meet one-on-
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News Link • Government
The Doldrums
10-21-2012
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by L. Neil Smith (The Libertarian Enterprise)
We have reached that point in the election cycle" hardly for the first time"where we are compelled to choose between voting for the lesser of two or three or four evils and not voting at all.
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News Link • Entertainment: Sports
Lab chief: Lance Armstrong’s 2001 test was suspicious, not a failure
10-21-2012
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AFP
Lance Armstrong’s contentious 2001 Tour of Switzerland drug test was suspicious, but wasn’t proof of EPO doping, even by today’s stringent standards, the laboratory chief who oversaw the procedure has told AFP.
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Britain acted like empire over Julian Assange: Ecuador
10-21-2012
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Rawstory
Britain behaved like it was still an empire in its threat to raid Ecuador’s embassy and arrest WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, the Ecuadoran ambassador to London said in an interview.
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News Link • Internet
Texas Woman Charged With Publishing Picture of Undercover Officer Found On His Facebook Page
10-21-2012
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http://jonathanturley.org
With Friends Like This: Texas Woman Charged With Publishing Picture of Undercover Officer Found On His Facebook Page
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News Link • Government
Deciding the Future of Puerto Rico
10-21-2012
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Free Press Publications
Voters in Puerto Rico are preparing to reconsider the island’s relationship with the federal government. This is the first time since 1998 that voters have been asked to reconsider the fate of the island territory.
No matter what the results of th
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Reference Link • Food
Prop 37 and Food Supply Safety
www.thecommonsenseshow.com
Barb Peterson (farmwars.info) as she and Dave discuss the labeling of GMO’s and the controversial Prop 37, which is on the ballot this November. If passed, GMO’s would have to be labeled
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
55 Facts About The Debt And U.S. Government Finances That Every American Voter Should Know
10-20-2012
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http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com
The future of the United States of America is being systematically destroyed by our politicians, but unfortunately most Americans don't really grasp exactly what is happening.
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News Link • China
There's Been A Dramatic Reversal In The Chinese City That Revolted
10-20-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, The Economist
A year after their uprising, Wukan's leaders see drawbacks to democracy
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News Link • Events: America
Letter Re: Knob Creek After Action Report, by Louie in Ohio
10-20-2012
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http://www.survivalblog.com, by Louie
This past weekend (12-14 October, 2012) was the Fall Knob Creek machinegun shoot in West Point, Kentucky.
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