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Date Sent: 2012-11-27
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Tuesday, November 27, 2012 AM ed. |
US to leave 10,000 troops in Afghanistan past 2014 -- US Supreme Court Says It's OK To Record Cops
Mortgage Interest Deduction, Once a Sacred Cow, Is Under Scrutiny -- SCOTUS orders appeals court to hear Liberty University health care
lawsuit -- Egypt’s Mursi Defends Power Grab -- Stalemate in
Syria? Army short on loyalists, rebels short on guns -- Kristol’s
Thanksgiving Meditation Makes Central Role of Israel in
Neo-Conservatism Clear -- Army mom: Military suicides ‘out of
control’ -- Chinese Aircraft Carrier First to Takeoff, Land
Planes -- Egypt’s Morsi Drops a Bombshell -- Report: U.S.
Planned On Blowing Up Moon With Nuke During Cold War In 1950s --
Marc Faber's Forecast for the Global Economy -- Federal
officials take down 132 websites in 'Cyber Monday' crackdown --
School Lunches Are Sickening -- Gun Store Owner Who Banned Obama
Supporters Says 'Business Is Booming' -- An Incredible Goodbye
Note To China Has Every Expat In The Country Talking -- Texans
going wild with 'secession fever,' bumper stickers everywhere --
Eisenhower's Chilling Analysis Of Defense Spending -- Palm
scanners get thumbs up in schools, hospitals -- Schools’ Tracking
Devices Causes Controversy -- Citi: Here's What The World's Most
Important Commodities Will Do In 2013 -- Ron Paul's Texas
Straight Talk 11/26/12 -- Woman photographed riding a manatee
in Florida is arrested -- Breitbart: GOP Reaps Its Abandonment of
Limited Government -- Ron Paul on Benghazi and Price Gouging w/
Fox News' Geraldo -- NH's New Governor Open to Legalizing
Medical Marijuana -- Journalists Educate The TSA at Buffalo
Airport -- No Surprise: Britain's PM Continues His Support of
the EU -- Copyright Bombshell: New Study Finds Megaupload's
File-Sharing Supported Box Office -- Brzezinski: “Populist
Resistance” is Derailing the New World Order -- TSA
supervisor uses airport cop to keep from being filmed -- Pentagon
Boss Announces Expansion of Drone and Commando War in Africa -- Opt Out Activists Threatened With Arrest For Handing Out
Flyers
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News Link • Afghanistan
US to leave 10,000 troops in Afghanistan past 2014
11-26-2012
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http://www.france24.com, By News Wires
Some 10,000 US troops will remain in Afghanistan after NATO combat operations end at the end of 2014, US media reports said Sunday.
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Supreme Court Says It's OK To Record Cops In Illinois
11-26-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Michael Kelley
The U.S. Supreme Court issued an order Monday that essentially allows people in Illinois to record police officers, the Chicago Tribune reports.
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News Link • Police State
Supreme Court rules cops can be filmed
11-27-2012
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Russia Today
Smile for the camera, coppers " the US Supreme Court has decided to let stand a lesser ruling that allows citizens in the state of Illinois to record police officers performing their official duties.
Up until just last year, an anti-eavesdropping le
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Mortgage Interest Deduction, Once a Sacred Cow, Is Under Scrutiny
11-26-2012
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New York Times
A tax break that has long been untouchable could soon be in for some serious scrutiny.
Many home buyers deduct their mortgage interest when assessing their tax bill, a perk that has helped bolster the income of millions of families " and the broad
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News Link • NeoCons
Foreign Policy’s Bipartisan Trio Becomes Republican Duo
11-26-2012
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New York Times
For Mr. McCain and Mr. Graham, the loss of Mr. Lieberman, a Democrat turned independent who is the chairman of the homeland security committee, goes beyond personal deprivation and could profoundly affect their ability to influence foreign policy.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Just For Fun!
Amazing 8 Year Old Owns Adult In Dance-Off
11-26-2012
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www.break.com
This little kid is amazing, and he manages to simultaneously destroy his competition's hopes of winning the dance-off and picking up a groupie to leave with.
When you get beat by an 8 year old breakdancer, you know you have to rethink your trainin
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Justice and Judges
SCOTUS orders appeals court to hear Liberty University health care lawsuit
11-26-2012
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By JENNIFER HABERKORN and KATHRYN SMITH
The Supreme Court on Monday ordered the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals to examine the constitutionality of the health care reform law’s employer requirements and mandatory coverage of contraceptives without a co-pay.
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News Link • Egypt
Egypt’s Mursi Defends Power Grab
11-26-2012
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http://news.antiwar.com, by Jason Ditz
Insists Move 'Temporary' and Aimed to Protect Constitutional Committee
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News Link • Syria
Stalemate in Syria? Army short on loyalists, rebels short on guns
11-26-2012
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http://www.csmonitor.com, By Tom A. Peter
The regime of Bashar al-Assad appears to be favoring long-range weapons out of fear that soldiers close to the front lines will defect.
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News Link • Israel
Kristol’s Thanksgiving Meditation Makes Central Role of Israel in Neo-Conservatism Clear
11-26-2012
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http://www.lobelog.com, Jim Lobe
For those, particularly in the timid or intimidated U.S. foreign-policy elite, who still pretend or somehow make themselves believe that Israel is not absolutely central to the neo-conservative worldview, I commend this week’s Thanksgiving editorial
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News Link • Military
Army mom: Military suicides ‘out of control’
11-26-2012
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http://www.armytimes.com, By Randal Yakey
Libby Busbee pounded on the window of her son’s maroon Dodge Charger as he sat in the driveway of their home earlier this year. Locked inside his car, Army Spc. William Busbee sat with a .45-caliber gun pointed to the side of his head.
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News Link • Inventions
The 7 Greatest Engineering Innovations Of 2012
11-26-2012
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http://www.popsci.com, Staff
From the world's largest semisubmersible vessel to a carbon-neutral office building that might be the most sustainable workplace ever
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News Link • China
Chinese Aircraft Carrier First to Takeoff, Land Planes
11-26-2012
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freebeacon.com
After years of preparation, the Chinese military performed its first aircraft carrier takeoffs and landings last week on the Liaoning.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Egypt
Egypt’s Morsi Drops a Bombshell
11-26-2012
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http://lewrockwell.com, by Eric Margolis
A year ago, I was mixing with demonstrators in Cairo’s Tahrir Square calling for an end to Mubarak’s dictatorship and democracy for Egypt’s 84 million people.
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News Link • How To
How To Spot a Sociopath...
11-26-2012
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http://lewrockwell.com, by Mike Adams
10 Red Flags That Could Save You From Being Swept Under the Influence of a Charismatic Nut Job
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News Link • Internet
Federal officials take down 132 websites in 'Cyber Monday' crackdown
11-26-2012
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thehill.com
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and European officials seized 132 websites on Monday for allegedly selling counterfeit merchandise in a coordinated crackdown timed to coincide with the holiday shopping season.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Government
Here’s How It Will Be Done…
11-26-2012
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http://lewrockwell.com, by Eric Peters
Incrementalism has proved depressingly effective as a tool for getting most people to quietly surrender their rights piecemeal. For gradually habituating them to an ever-diminishing circle of liberty.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Gun Store Owner Who Banned Obama Supporters Says 'Business Is Booming'
11-26-2012
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cnsnews.com
Last week, the owner of an Arizona gun shop made national headlines after it was reported that he had posted a sign and taken out a full page ad in a local newspaper that banned Obama supporters from entering his store.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Emmigration
An Incredible Goodbye Note To China Has Every Expat In The Country Talking
11-26-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Adam Taylor
In just a few months, the "why-I'm-leaving-China" article has become an embarrassing cliche amongst expats in China.
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News Link • Activism
Texans going wild with 'secession fever,' bumper stickers everywhere
11-26-2012
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now.msn.com
Move over, "Everything is bigger in Texas." The Lone Star state has a new favorite bumper sticker and it's a simple one-worder: "Secede." Yes, it appears that "secession fever," as some columnists are calling it, has taken over the red-leaning state
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Government Waste
Eisenhower's Chilling Analysis Of Defense Spending
11-26-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Gus Lubin
As Congress considers across-the-board defense cuts, let's call on the wisdom of Dwight Eisenhower, the last general to become president of the US.
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News Link • Surveillance
Palm scanners get thumbs up in schools, hospitals
11-26-2012
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usatoday.com
At schools in Pinellas County, Fla., students aren't paying for lunch with cash or a card, but with a wave of their hand over a palm scanner.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Here's Exactly What Jessica Simpson Ate To Lose 60 Pounds In 4 Months
11-26-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Aly Weisman
Just six months after giving birth to baby Maxwell in May, Jessica Simpson has already lost a whopping 60 pounds.
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News Link • Surveillance
Schools’ Tracking Devices Causes Controversy
11-26-2012
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houston.cbslocal.com
A San Antonio school district’s website was hacked over the weekend to protest its policy requiring students to wear microchip-embedded cards tracking their every move on campus.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Energy
Citi: Here's What The World's Most Important Commodities Will Do In 2013
11-26-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Mamta Badkar
Last week Citi's Edward Morse put out a note declaring "the commodity super cycle is over".
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Project A119: The U.S. Plan To Blow Up The Moon
11-26-2012
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Terrence Aym - Before It's News
Now it can be told: during the frigid depths of the U.S.-Soviet Cold War the United States military, working with Carl Sagan and led by eminent nuclear physicist Leonard Reiffel, planned the execution of an incredible scheme"to blow up part of the M
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
A North Korean Assassin Was Caught With These Lethal Pens And Flashlights
11-26-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, William Wei
When South Korean officials arrested a North Korean spy last year, they found he was armed with only two pens and a flashlight.
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News Link • Just For Fun!
Woman photographed riding a manatee in Florida is arrested
11-26-2012
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latimes.com
A St. Petersburg, Fla., woman was arrested on a misdemeanor warrant Saturday after being photographed two months ago riding a manatee.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Healthcare
END OF THE DOCTOR'S SURGERY
11-26-2012
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express.co.uk
A BID to save nearly £3billion by slashing appointments with a doctor and treating patients via computer will put lives at risk, ministers were warned.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Breitbart: GOP Reaps Its Abandonment of Limited Government
11-26-2012
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by SFTS
The GOP ought to have been able to win ample libertarian support this election, as the campaigns were fought where the two philosophies intersect, namely government spending and regulation.
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
NH's New Governor Open to Legalizing Medical Marijuana
11-26-2012
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by legalizeliberty
New Hampshire’s new governor, who is open to legalizing medical marijuana, may lead to the state joining the rest of New England in legalizing the drug.
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Ron Paul on Benghazi and Price Gouging w/ Fox News' Geraldo
11-26-2012
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by eduardo89
Ron Paul discusses 'Benghazigate,' Price Gouging, Free Markets and is even asked about Rand Paul running in 2016.
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
The Healing Power of Marijuana Has Barely Been Tapped
11-26-2012
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by go213mph
Medical marijuana is now legal in 18 states, but it's clear we've discovered a fraction of its potential for health.
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Journalists Educate The TSA at Buffalo Airport
11-26-2012
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by sharpsteve
"Opt Out And Film The TSA" campaign, Dan Dicks of Press For Truth and Ashley Jessica went to the Buffalo International airport to help raise awareness about the intrusive and invasive TSA procedures.
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News Link • European Union
No Surprise: Britain's PM Continues His Support of the EU
11-26-2012
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http://www.thedailybell.com, by Anthony Wile
British Prime Minister David Cameron is standing up for Britain against Brussels, or that is what we're led to believe.
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News Link • United Nations
Now UN Promotes Global Education
11-26-2012
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http://www.thedailybell.com, by Staff Report
Oh, boy. The United Nations is promoting educational goals. Ten years ago, the "international community" authorized the UN to achieve something called Education for All by 2015.
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News Link • 911 / World Trade Center
The Osama bin Laden Myth
11-26-2012
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http://www.thedailybell.com, by Paul Craig Roberts
The interview below with Osama bin Laden was conducted by the Karachi, Pakistan, daily newspaper, Ummat, and published on September 28, 2001, 17 days after the alleged, but unsubstantiated, al Qaeda attack of September 11, 2001, on the World Trade Ce
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News Link • Media: Internet
Copyright Bombshell: New Study Finds Megaupload's File-Sharing Supported Box Office
11-26-2012
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http://www.thedailybell.com, by Staff Report
It is common knowledge that if one copies intellectual property, one is stealing. Only crazy libertarians and crackpot anarchocapitalists would ever adopt a belief that helping oneself to intellectual property was not a criminal offense.
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News Link • Activism
Brzezinski: “Populist Resistance” is Derailing the New World Order
11-26-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Paul Joseph Watson
Rise in “populist activism” a threat to “external control”
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
TSA supervisor uses airport cop to keep from being filmed
11-26-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com
Filming a TSA checkpoint for opt and and film week, Adam Kokesh runs into a predictably unfriendly TSA supervisor and an unpredictably intelligent cop.
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News Link • Surveillance
It’s The Beginning Of The End For The TSA’s Full-Body Scanners
11-26-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Christopher Elliott
To absolutely no one’s surprise, the mainstream media last week ignored a legitimate grassroots protest against the TSA’s allegedly invasive full-body scanners.
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News Link • Africa: On the Map
Pentagon Boss Announces Expansion of Drone and Commando War in Africa
11-26-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Kurt Nimmo
Obama’s Secretary of Defense, Leon Panetta, said during a speech last week at the Center for a New American Security that the drone and commando war waged by the United States will intensify and expand outside the declared combat zone over the next f
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News Link • Activism
Opt Out Activists Threatened With Arrest For Handing Out Flyers
11-26-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Derek Broze Live Free
Derrick Broze and Adam Kokesh went to Reagan Airport to pass out info and film as part of National Opt Out and Film the TSA week.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Gun Rights, Peace, and Liberty (video)
11-24-2012
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The International Libertarian
Darren Wolfe talks about peace, liberty, gun rights, and security from the point of view of arming the people to protect themselves while disarming the government. The talk was based on his opening statement at the Greater Philadelphia Thinking Socie
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Crowd shouts judge out of courtroom, man declares, “I’m in charge now”
11-24-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
In court Monday, Boniek appeared without an attorney but with many supporters, who filled the courtroom to standing room only save for a few other citizens and attorneys who were present for unrelated court matters.
Boniek told Budeski he had conc
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