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Date Sent: 2012-11-19
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Monday, November 19, 2012 AM edition |
Man with strange watch arrested at Calif. airport, charged with having bomb-making materials
Congress demands EPA’s secret email accounts -- Drug Shortages
Persist in U.S., Harming Care -- Ranchers, farmers brace for
'death tax' impact -- It's the Law. You must have a license to be
homeless. -- Maker of Airport Body Scanners Suspected of
Falsifying Software Tests -- The Quickest Way EVER Through A
Security Checkpoint (How to) -- Lew Rockwell Owns the Gang of
Overlords -- Man exonerated, still imprisoned -- Cop who
beats mentally disabled man to death just because he could gets 4
years -- Future of Freedom
Foundation remakes its website! -- Kill the Password: Why a String
of Characters Can’t Protect Us Anymore -- Beat the FBI: How to
Send Anonymous Email Without Getting Caught -- They told him
not to enforce drug laws in white areas. Really. -- Now We Know
Why The French Were So Upset About The New Economist Cover --
(No) Peace In the Middle East (Until All Sides Want It) -- Presenting
the Democrat plan for going over the fiscal cliff!
Webcomic: "Quantum Vibe" by Liberty Artist/Cartoonist Scott Bieser
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Man exonerated, still imprisoned
11-18-2012
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A man exonerated last week but kept imprisoned per the Virginia attorney general's orders. Jonathan Montgomery was sentenced to 7.5 years in prison in 2008 for the 2000 sexual assault of a woman who had fabricated the assault story.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
Congress demands EPA’s secret email accounts
11-18-2012
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Washington Times
EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson used an email alias to try to hide correspondence from open-government requests and her agency’s own internal watchdog " something that Republican lawmakers said could run afoul of the law.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
Drug Shortages Persist in U.S., Harming Care
11-18-2012
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New York Times
The trip was 30 minutes, and the patient was in pain. But because of a nationwide shortage, his morphine supply had dwindled from 4 doses to just 1, presenting him with a stark quandary. Should he treat the woman, who was clearly suffering? Or
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Ranchers, farmers brace for 'death tax' impact
11-18-2012
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FOX News
Two decades ago, Kester paid the IRS $2 million when he inherited a 22,000-acre cattle ranch from his grandfather. Come January, the tax burden on his children will be more than $13 million.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
It's the Law. You must have a license to be homeless.
11-18-2012
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CBS News
A police chief says he’s found a one-of-a-kind way to manage a growing problem in his city. A new law would give Nevada City the power to hand out permits to a small group of homeless, which would give them permission to sleep in public.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Maker of Airport Body Scanners Suspected of Falsifying Software Tests
11-18-2012
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Wired
A company that supplies controversial passenger-screening machines for U.S. airports is under suspicion for possibly manipulating tests on privacy software designed to prevent the machines from producing graphic body images.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Transportation
The Quickest Way EVER Through A Security Checkpoint (How to)
11-18-2012
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youtube (h/t Lew Rockwell blog)
How to get them to pass you through a police checkpoint? Wow, what an peaceful idea.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Food
Monsanto Back at it Again in Costa Rica with GM Corn
11-18-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
In the small Latin American country of Costa Rica, where agriculture is king and enormous corporate plantations have dotted the countryside, a subsidiary of Monsanto is making a push to plant several hectares of genetically modified transgenic corn i
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Philosophy: Libertarianism
Lew Rockwell Owns the Gang of Overlords
11-18-2012
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youtube (h/t Lew Rockwell blog)
Gary Franchi interviews Lew Rockwell (Mises Institute) in a great interview on explaining the ways of the world.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Cop who beats mentally disabled man to death for saying 'I didn't do it' gets 4 years
11-18-2012
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Huffington Post
A police officer was sentenced Thursday to more than four years in prison for using excessive force against a mentally disabled janitor who died after being erroneously suspected of stealing money from an ATM.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Man with strange watch arrested at Calif. airport, charged with having bomb-making materials
11-18-2012
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FOX News
A Southern California man was arrested [and jailed] at Oakland International Airport after security officers found him wearing an unusual watch they said could be used to make a timing device for a bomb, authorities said Friday.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Transportation
General Motors Raises Its Ante on Electric Cars
11-18-2012
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http://www.technologyreview.com, By Jessica Leber
The Detroit automaker will soon debut its first all-electric vehicle, a fast-charging vehicle that also rides well.
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News Link • Biology, Botany and Zoology
Hints of Life in Deepest Scientific Marine Samples Ever Collected
11-18-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By Jeffrey Marlow
Elizabeth Trembath-Reichert recently returned from the Research Vessel Chikyu off the coast of Japan’s Shimokita Peninsula, where she served as a member of the microbiology team aboard a (literally) groundbreaking leg of the Integrated Ocean Drilling
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News Link • Robots and Artificial Intelligence
South Korea develops bird strike defense robot
11-18-2012
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http://www.gizmag.com, By Jason Falconer
The Korean Atomic Energy Group and LIG Nex1 (an aerospace and defense subsidiary of LG Corp) have jointly developed what they are calling the world's first bird strike defense robot.
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Sun and Moon Watch tells time with movement of celestial bodies
11-18-2012
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http://www.gizmag.com, By Dave Parrack
In the 17th century, a period of experimentation began into how best to represent time.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Cell-powered "bio-bots" get a wriggle on
11-18-2012
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http://www.gizmag.com, By Jason Falconer
Using a 3D printer, researchers at the University of Illinois have developed synthetic "bio-bots" about seven millimeters long that are powered by embedded cardiac cells that give them the ability to "walk" on their own.
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News Link • How To
Beat the FBI: How to Send Anonymous Email Without Getting Caught
11-18-2012
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http://www.technewsdaily.com, by Ben Weitzenkorn
Ahhh, the anonymizing effects of the Internet.
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
New Technologies Drive Oil Boom in U.S.
11-18-2012
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http://www.technewsdaily.com, Jesse Emspak
Oil production in the U.S. is increasing, often driven by new ways of getting the black stuff out of the ground.
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News Link • Drug War
They told him not to enforce drug laws in white areas. Really.
11-18-2012
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youtube
Meet Matthew Fogg, a former US Marshal whose exploits led him to be nicknamed "Batman." When he noticed all of his team's drug raids were in black areas, he suggested doing the same in the suburbs. His boss didn't take kindly
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News Link • Future Predictions
Here's What Futurist Ray Kurzweil Thinks Life Will Be Like In The Next 20 Years
11-18-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Megan Rose Dickey
With companies like Google creating self-driving cars and augmented-reality glasses, futurist Ray Kurzweil's predictions are starting to sound much more realistic.
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News Link • Military
(No) Peace In the Middle East (Until All Sides Want It)
11-18-2012
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Free Press Publications
The conflicts between Israel and Palestine have been going on for such a long time, it's difficult to know when one conflict stops and another one starts. The latest exchange of missile fire is no exception.
"All sides have to step back
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Darryl W. Perry
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Presenting the Democrat plan for going over the fiscal cliff!
11-18-2012
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The Political Commentator
Sound cynical? Maybe! Realistic? Most definitely! Paranoid? Only because everyone is out to get me!
The first thing is that we all need to agree that the Democrat Party, led by Barack Obama, is interested in only one thing? Maintaining power and t
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Michael Haltman
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News Link • Food
A Traditional Thanksgiving Deserves a Heritage Turkey
11-18-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Ideally, this Thanksgiving you are ordering your organic, free-range turkey from your local farmer. It doesn’t get any better than that does it? Actually, it does.
Farmers markets are now featuring “Heritage Turkeys” for those wanting an even more
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Reference Link • Surveillance
The TSA Abuses the USA: The Final Solution
www.thecommonsenseshow.com
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is a cookie cutter version of the East German Stasi and because of the pot bellied perverts who work at the who expose the flying public to degradation, extreme violations of our bodies and lethal dose
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News Link • Voting - Election Integrity
Arizona Election Fraud: Mickey Duniho and Jim March Report Election Shenanigans to Pima County's
11-16-2012
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Thei Intercept
The first event: In November 2011 the state added new election requirements, including one that counties must sort early ballots by precincts for the hand count audit. John Moffatt was involved, and reported to your commission on changes proposed and
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J.t. Waldron
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News Link • Homeland Security
DHS sponsors more mass X-Ray exposure at U.S. Borders
11-16-2012
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DailyKos
The Obama Administration wants to X-RAY you and your car
at U.S. land borders with massive numbers of people
exposed to medically unnecessary and damaging X-radiation to
promote the national security state; it also effects DHS employee
occupatio
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Sheila Dean
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News Link • Cyberspace and the New Economy
Boots on the ground: Obama’s cybersecurity directive could allow military deployment within the US
11-16-2012
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RT.com
The White House is being asked by attorneys to explain a top-secret presidential policy directive signed last month that may allow for the domestic deployment of the US military for the sake of so-called cybersecurity.
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News Link • Police State
Attorneys: Obama’s ‘secret’ cyber security law may allow ‘military deployment within the U.S.’
11-16-2012
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Rawstory
The Electronic Privacy Information Center demanded President Obama release the text of what they called a “secret” new cyber security law that appears to enable “military deployment within the United States.”
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Public Health Proposal Considers Mandatory ‘Smokers License’
11-16-2012
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CBS News
A public health proposal suggests that tobacco smokers should be required to apply and pay for a “smoker’s license” in order to continue buying cigarettes.
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News Link • Healthcare
Denny's to charge 5% 'Obamacare surcharge' and cut employee hours to deal with cost of m
11-16-2012
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CBS News
President Obama's election victory ensured his Affordable Care Act would remain the centerpiece of his first term in power - but that has left some business owners baulking at the extra cost Obamcare will bring.
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News Link • Government
Postal Service losses tripled to $16 billion
11-16-2012
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AFP
The US Postal Service tripled its losses in 2012, bleeding $15.9 billion as the state-owned enterprise faces tough competition and what it calls onerous and unfair retirement funding requirements. The US mail said its losses rocketed in the year
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Radio/TV Show • Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock - Radio
Host:
Ernest Hancock
11-16-12 -- Ray McGovern - Barry Hess (MP3 & Video LOADED)
Ray McGovern (Retired CIA Analyst) on his latest article, 'Pundit Tears for Petraeus's Fall' - Barry Hess (longtime libertarian activist and former candidate for AZ Governor) on his new book, 'The PeaceMonger'
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Montana tells lawmaker gold is for fools
11-16-2012
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Politico
State Rep. Jerry O’Neil wrote the state legislature asking to be paid his annual $7,000 salary in coins because he wasn’t doing his duty to uphold the U.S. Constitution, which O’Neil says requires the government only print gold-backed money.
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News Link • Oil Spill - Gulf of Mexico
Breaking News: Another Oil Rig Explodes in the Gulf
11-16-2012
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WEAR
Coast Guard officials say an oil rig has exploded off the coast of Louisiana, sending four people to hospitals. Two are believed to be missing, and people on the scene are telling the Coast Guard that two people have been killed.
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News Link • Employee and Employer Relations
Hostess going out of business after union strikes
11-16-2012
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Reuters
Hostess Brands Inc, the bankrupt maker of Twinkies and Wonder Bread, has sought a U.S. court's permission to go out of business after failing to get wage and benefit cuts from thousands of its striking bakery workers.
Hostess, which has about $2.
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News Link • Afghanistan
Taliban Oops Reveals Mailing List IDs
11-16-2012
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ABC News
Somewhere out there, Mullah Omar must be shaking his head. In a Dilbert-esque faux pax, a Taliban spokesperson sent out a routine email last week with one notable difference.He publicly CC'd the names of everyone on his mailing list.
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News Link • Healthcare
Mother's Death Causes Big Backlash Against Ireland's Abortion Laws
11-16-2012
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The Business Insider
Irish abortion laws are facing increasing backlash after a woman, Savita Halappanavar, died last month because the hospital refused to end a deadly pregnancy.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama's Kill List Policy Compels US Support for Israeli Attacks on Gaza
11-16-2012
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http://www.commondreams.org, by Glenn Greenwald
The US was once part of the international consensus against extra-judicial assassinations. Now it is a leader in that tactic.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
'Grand Bargain' Charade a Scheme to Protect Corporate Welfare
11-16-2012
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http://www.commondreams.org, by Ralph Nader
Congress is still talking about a “Grand Bargain” that “balances” far more spending cuts than tax increases.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Surveillance
Big Brother: 320 Licence Plate Reading Police Cars In Maryland; And Growing
11-16-2012
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http://govtslaves.info, Adam May
A wild chase down Interstate 95 ends with a crash. Police got on the trail of the stolen car using controversial technology increasing across Maryland.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Government
US Bank Run Imminent: FDIC Deposit Insurance Ends December 31
11-16-2012
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http://govtslaves.info, Silver Doctors
As of January 2013 the FDIC stops offering 100% coverage for all insured deposits.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Surveillance
Homeland Security spends millions for ‘biosurveillance’ of social networks
11-16-2012
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http://rt.com
The US Department of Homeland Security has signed a multi-million dollar contract with a global management consulting firm to boost the country’s attempt to master biosurveillance using social networks.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Congressman Ron Paul: ‘America is broke’
11-16-2012
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http://rt.com
The US “cannot go on much longer” if it continues to spend and consume in the existing way, according to Ron Paul
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Robert Lee
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News Link • F.E.M.A.
FEMA sold off emergency shelters as the East Coast braced for Sandy
11-16-2012
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http://rt.com
The Federal Emergency Management Agency was praised by President Obama for its handling of Superstorm Sandy, but not all East Coast residents ravaged by Mother Nature last month would agree.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Energy
Cracks found in South Carolina atomic station's nuclear reactor head
11-16-2012
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http://rt.com
The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission has ordered engineers at a power plant in South Carolina to act urgently on cracks that have appeared in a reactor head there that could increase the likelihood of an atomic disaster.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Military
New US commander in Afghanistan pledges to stay past Obama’s deadline
11-16-2012
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http://rt.com
The incoming top commander in charge of the United States’ military efforts in Afghanistan made remarks to Congress on Thursday that suggest he sees a US presence extending overseas well past US President Barack Obama’s deadline of 2014.
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News Link • Oil Spill - Gulf of Mexico
BP admits to 11 counts of manslaughter
11-16-2012
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http://rt.com
Oil giant BP will fork over the largest criminal penalty in the history of the United States and plead guilty to criminal misconduct, sources report, with more charges possibly forthcoming over the 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
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News Link • Israel - Palestine
Hypocrisy of slaughter: Israel’s Orwellian account of Gaza campaign (Op-Ed)
11-16-2012
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http://rt.com
Israel’s assault on Gaza raises doubts that it has any interest in finding the lasting peace settlement it proclaims to want.
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News Link • Afghanistan
Newest US Afghan Commander sees U.S. forces in Afghanistan post-drawdown
11-15-2012
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Washington Post
President Obama’s pick to be the next commander of U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan said Thursday that he foresees maintaining American forces and equipment in the country after international contingents leave by the end of 2014.
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News Link • Syria
Securing Chemical Arms in Syria a Vast Task, Pentagon Says
11-15-2012
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New York Times
The Pentagon has told the Obama administration that any military effort to seize Syria’s stockpiles of chemical weapons would require upward of 75,000 troops, amid increasing concern that the militant group Hezbollah has set up small training camps c
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
St. Paul to pay record-tying $400K in police violence case
11-15-2012
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St. Paul police kicked a man in the face as he lay on the ground trying to explain that his mother couldn't quickly get to the ground because she'd recently had surgery. Police then shot a "flash-bang" grenade directly at the woman, setting her afire
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News Link • Drug War
Mormons stand off against the narcs
11-15-2012
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Salt Lake Tribune
"The kind officers [who were spouting language the two LDS home teachers were not used to hearing] did not seem to like this action and one very large officer stepped toward Budd’s companion, who then found himself looking directly into the muzzle of
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Supreme Court Protects Prosecutorial Misconduct
11-15-2012
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Reason magazine
A case that touches on 2 important criminal justice issues " prosecutorial misconduct and the federal government’s zealous war on pain medication " will not be heading to the Supreme Court, even after 70 federal judges and prosecutors
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News Link • Syria
The Arab League Is a Tool of the Empire
11-15-2012
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Russia Today (h/t LewRocwell blog)
Lew speaks to RT about the latest machinations in Syria.
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News Link • Palestine -- Israel
Assassinating The Chance For Calm
11-15-2012
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The Daily Beast (h/t Lew Rockwell blog)
Shortly after the return of Gilad Shalit, I drafted a proposal to the Government of Israel and Hamas to enter into a long term ceasefire arrangement based on the assumption that, for the time being, neither side was interested in engaging in renewed
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News Link • Energy
US Fusion program a cover for nuclear weapons development
11-15-2012
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NIF "was conceived, designed, built and funded to conduct experiments that help replicate the conditions found inside nuclear weapons" and that fusion energy, though important, "has never been its primary purpose."
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Feature Article • Secession
SECEDE TO SUCCEED!
David McElroy
Citizens of all 50 states have petitioned the White House seeking to secede. Ron Paul has delivered us his magnum opus on liberty in farewell. It is time to foreclose on Uncle Sam!
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Ohio Photojournalism Student Arrested for Photographing Ambulance Scene
11-15-2012
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Photography Is Not a Crime
As they were carrying out a victim from a house on Halloween night, paramedics in Ohio spotted a man across the street taking photos, so they started ordering him to put that camera away. But Nicolas Tanner, a 28-year-old photojournalism graduate stu
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Minneapolis Police Arrest Man for Photographing Arrest
11-15-2012
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Photography Is Not a Crime
When Paul Leason spotted a group of Minneapolis police officers making an arrest, he pulled out his camera and began taking photos from a public sidewalk.
One of the officers spotted him and ordered him to keep walking.
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