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Date Sent: 2012-12-14
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, December 14, 2012 |
Court: German victim of US rendition -- 9/11 trial Judge OKs audio delays, censor at Guantánamo
Susan Rice withdraws as candidate for secretary of state -- Bradley
Manning in court: Idealist or emotionally unstable? -- Report
finds harsh CIA interrogations ineffective -- College Cop Fired
after Barging into Dorm Room without Warrant -- Detroit Gives
Away Lots For $200 To Reduce Blight -- Barely Noticed by Cops,
Non-Tribal Poker Rooms Thrive in Phoenix -- Chaffetz: State Dept
Hiding Benghazi Survivors -- Senate takes step toward banning
stalking software -- U.S. judge orders 9/11 suspects' CIA
experience kept secret -- Somali Woman Gets Prison for
Supporting Charity -- Levy on gold could be budget windfall, U.S.
lawmakers say -- Fear vs. Fundamentals in the Platinum Market
-- 'Damned from Memory': When the Drug War Turns on Its
Own -- Government Spying Out of Control -- U.N.
Conference Slyly Introduces Resolution to Gain Control of
Internet—in Middle of Night -- Chinese airplane enters
Japanese airspace over Senkakus for 1st time -- City issued
speed camera ticket to motionless car -- The Battle of
Athens: Restoring the Rule of Law -- Letter from Boehner to Rep.
Justin Amash
AZ: America's First Monument to the Bill of Rights - Arizona Dedication Ceremony, Saturday December 15th
10:00 am; 2012 Arizona Activist Awards, Patriot Roast &
Fundraiser Saturday December 15th 6:00 pm - 10:00 pm
PA: East Coast Bitcoin Summit: Philadelphia, Dec. 15,
12:30 - 6PM
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
European court: German was victim of US rendition
12-13-2012
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AP
The European Court of Human Rights ruled that a German car salesman was a victim of torture and abuse, in a long-awaited victory for a man who had failed for years to get courts in the United States and Europe to recognize him as a victim.
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Judge in 9/11 trial OKs audio delays, censor at Guantánamo
12-13-2012
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miamiherald.com
The chief of the Guantánamo war court has approved the use of a time delay on public viewing of the Sept. 11 death-penalty trial as well as a censor in his court to make sure nobody divulges details of a now defunct CIA interrogation program.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
U.S. judge orders 9/11 suspects' CIA experience kept secret
12-13-2012
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Reuters
The U.S. military judge overseeing the Guantanamo prosecution of five alleged conspirators in the September 11 attacks has issued an order maintaining secrecy over the defendants' experiences in clandestine CIA prisons.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Religious Monument Gets a Sidekick: Bill of Rights
12-12-2012
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New York Times
Workers prepared to install a limestone slab that is part of a monument to the Bill of Rights at the Arizona Capitol in Phoenix. It will be dedicated Saturday.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Obama Administration
Susan Rice withdraws as candidate for secretary of state
12-13-2012
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Washington Post
U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice withdrew her name as President Obama’s leading candidate for secretary of state, saying the administration could not afford the “lengthy, disruptive and costly” confirmation process her Republican critics have promised.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Bradley Manning in court: Idealist or emotionally unstable?
12-13-2012
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AFP
Who is the real Bradley Manning: a fragile and unstable being, with suicidal tendencies, or a man of conscience, aware of his actions and determined to make his mark in the world? Defense attorneys and prosecutors drew competing portrayals of
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Torture
Report finds harsh CIA interrogations ineffective
12-13-2012
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Washington Post
After a contentious closed-door vote, the Senate Intelligence Committee approved a long-awaited report concluding that harsh interrogation measures used by the CIA did not produce significant intelligence breakthroughs, officials said.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
College Cop Fired after Barging into Dorm Room without Warrant
12-13-2012
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Photography Is Not a Crime
A solid victory for camera-wielding citizens: a University of Kentucky-Lexington police officer was fired less than 48 hours after a video went viral showing him and another officer barging into a college student’s dorm room without a warrant.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Detroit Gives Away Lots For $200 To Reduce Blight
12-13-2012
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CBS News
The city of Detroit is expanding its White Picket Fence Program, designed to end blight by allowing residents to buy adjacent city-owned lots for $200. To sweeten the deal, buyers also receive $200 gift cards to be used towards fencing and upkeep su
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Barely Noticed by Cops, Non-Tribal Poker Rooms Thrive in Phoenix
12-13-2012
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Phoenix New Times
John Schnaubelt walks in. He's a large guy in his mid-40s and would have been noticeable even if he hadn't stared at the players and said, "Hello, ladies and gents!" in a suspiciously loud, looking-for-trouble kind of voice.
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News Link • Obama Administration
Chaffetz: State Dept Hiding Benghazi Survivors
12-13-2012
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Breitbart
Congressman Chaffetz said he has been “thwarted” by the State Department from seeing any Americans who survived the deadly attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi. Many people forget that there were Americans who survived
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
Senate takes step toward banning stalking software
12-13-2012
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AP
A loophole that permits software companies to sell cyberstalking apps that operate secretly on cellphones could soon be closed by Congress. The software is popular among jealous wives or husbands because it can continuously track the whereabouts of a
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News Link • TERRORISM
Somali Woman Gets Prison for Supporting Charity
12-13-2012
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AP
A woman who fled war-torn Somalia as a child was sentenced Tuesday to 8 years in prison for sending $1,450 and insisted she wasn't a terrorist and said her contributions were motivated by a desire to provide food and medical care for those in need.
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News Link • Precious Metals
Levy on gold could be budget windfall, U.S. lawmakers say
12-13-2012
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Reuters
Revising a 19th-century US law that governs the mining of gold and other precious metals could add billions of dollars to federal coffers, according to Democratic lawmakers. Taxpayers receive no royalties on metals pulled from federal land,
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
I Have Never Felt Better in My Life
12-13-2012
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Lewrockwell.com
It’s Friday, everyone! And that means another Primal Blueprint Real Life Story from a Mark’s Daily Apple reader
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News Link • General Opinion
'Don't Tempt Us'
12-13-2012
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Lewrockwell.com
Recently, the Denver Police Union embarked on a campaign to elicit support from the people living in the city.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Drug War
'Damned from Memory': When the Drug War Turns on Its Own
12-13-2012
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Lewrockwell.com
John McLaughlin, known to his friends as "Sparky," was a True Believer in the War on Drugs.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Surveillance
Government Spying Out of Control
12-13-2012
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Lewrockwell.com
After President Richard Nixon was forced from office in 1974, congressional investigators discovered what they believed was the full extent of his use of the FBI and the CIA to engage in domestic spying.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
A Hauntingly Beautiful Skateboarding Video Shot With A Hexacopter Drone
12-13-2012
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popsci.com
Tapping the overhead shooting ability of an unmanned aerial system, filmmakers generate an eerie Tron-like motif as only overhead photography can.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • United Nations
U.N. Conference Slyly Introduces Resolution to Gain Control of Internet"in Middle of Night
12-13-2012
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weeklystandard.com
In the middle of the night at a U.N. conference in Dubai, the presiding chairman of the International Telecommunication Union conference surveyed the assembled countries to see whether there was interest in having greater involvement in the U.N. gove
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Robert Lee
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News Link • China
Chinese airplane enters Japanese airspace over Senkakus for 1st time
12-13-2012
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english.kyodonews.jp
A Chinese government airplane entered Japanese airspace over the disputed Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea on Thursday in the first such airspace intrusion in Japan, prompting an immediate protest from the Japanese government.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Surveillance
City issued speed camera ticket to motionless car
12-13-2012
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baltimoresun.com
Owner calls it "shockingly obvious" his car was not moving
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Robert Lee
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News Link • History
The Battle of Athens: Restoring the Rule of Law
12-13-2012
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voxvocispublicus.homestead.com
The Battle of Athens was an armed rebellion led by WWII veterans and citizens in Athens and Etowah, Tennessee, United States, against the tyrannical local government in August 1946.
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News Link • History
DID FDR LURE JAPAN INTO ATTACKING PEARL HARBOR?
12-13-2012
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http://ericmargolis.com, by Eric Margolis
December 10, 2012 " Japan’s surprise attack on Pearl Harbor 71 years ago this month was a “day that will live in infamy” according to US President Franklin Roosevelt.
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News Link • Agriculture
Forest Fog
12-13-2012
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arclein
housands of years ago, in cooler and wetter times, Bishop pine trees are thought to have proliferated along the West Coast of the U.S. and Mexico. Now, stratus clouds - the low-altitude clouds known locally as "June gloom" - help keep the trees gro
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Almost Half Fukushima Children Have Thyroid Disorders
12-13-2012
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arclein
The Fukushima reactors were designed by General Electric, and 23 reactors of the USA's 104 operating reactors are very similar to Fukushima's. Lately, awareness of nuclear power's pitfalls is growing and casting a shadow on nuclear power's illegi
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Super Camies
12-13-2012
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arclein
They're so confident that they claim the only way to find a person hiding beneath the blanket is to literally "trip over them."
CNN reports that the technology is passive, meaning that it doesn't generate power or an illusion of any sort, what
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Ray McGovern interviewed on DemocracyNow regarding Susan Rice
12-13-2012
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DemocracyNow.Org
Beyond Benghazi: Partisan Rift over Susan Rice Ignores Hawkish Record on War, Africa and Keystone XL
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Donna Hancock
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Opinion • Obama Administration
Ray McGovern: My Take
Growing Doubts About Susan Rice
12-13-2012
Ray McGovern
Republicans have blasted U.S. Ambassador to the UN Susan Rice for her TV comments about the fatal attack in Benghazi, Libya, but her real unfitness to be Secretary of State rests in her excessive careerism and insufficient compassion, says ex-CIA ana
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The New Panama Canal Could Change Everything For US Imports
12-12-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Simone Foxman
The near-total closure of the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, which ended Wednesday after a week-long strike, could have crippled the flow of goods into the US. But it could be the start of new battles ahead for major US ports.
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News Link • Afghanistan
New Afghan Peace Plan Would Cede Southeast to Taliban
12-12-2012
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http://news.antiwar.com, by Jason Ditz
Taliban Would Be Given Political Leadership in Provinces for End to Insurgency
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Report: Tribune to seek sale of newspapers
12-12-2012
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http://www.politico.com, By DYLAN BYERS
Bloomberg's Edmund Lee & Serena Saitto breaks news that the Tribune Company intends to seek sale of its newspaper holdings as it exits bankruptcy.
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News Link • Internet
How The Internet Has Spread Around The World [Infographic]
12-12-2012
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http://www.popsci.com, By Emily Elert
The World Wide Web is really starting to look like, well, a world wide web.
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News Link • Military
The Pentagon Hopes To Arm Drones With Laser Weapons Inside Five Years
12-12-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Michael Kelley
General Atomics is developing a powerful laser that can be fitted to an unmanned drone, Mark Thompson of Time reports.
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News Link • Emmigration
Why China's Super-Rich Are Packing Up And Moving Abroad
12-12-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Hua Ti
According to the 2011 Private Wealth Report, 27% of Chinese entrepreneurs worth more than 100 million RMB ($15.9 million) have already emigrated, while another 47% say they are considering doing so.
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News Link • Egypt
US Sending 20 More F-16s to Egypt, Despite Dictatorial Morsi
12-12-2012
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http://news.antiwar.com, by John Glaser
The US is desperate to retain as much influence over Egypt as possible
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News Link • Iraq
Iraq abuse inquiry was a cover-up, whistleblower tells court
12-12-2012
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The Guardian
A former investigator into allegations that British troops abused Iraqi prisoners resigned because she did not want to be implicated in “a cover-up”, the high court has heard. Louise Thomas, 45, left the Iraq Historic Allegations Team because she tho
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News Link • Federal Reserve
The FOMC Is Expected To Announce QE4 Today " Here's What You Need To Know
12-12-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Matthew Boesler
Today, the Federal Reserve will announce its latest decision on monetary policy, followed by a press conference featuring Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke.
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News Link • Police State
10 Year Old Strip Searched by School Official Over Lunch Ruckus
12-12-2012
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Sarah, The Healthy Home Economist
As the police state branches out, school officials are now taking the same authority as code enforcers when it comes to illegally strip searching students. In this case, a ten year old boy was the victim.
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News Link • Surveillance
Jersey City Unveils 3-Story High ‘Eye In The Sky’ Surveillance Tower To Fight Crime
12-12-2012
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CBS News
Among the initiatives is the “Eye in the Sky,” a three-story high, mobile tower equipped with 360-degree views and streaming surveillance cameras to give police a bird’s-eye view of high-crime areas.
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News Link • Voting and Elections
U.S. Should Consider Automatic Voter Registration: Holder
12-12-2012
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Bloomberg
The U.S. should consider automatically registering eligible voters and extending voting hours to counter the November election’s long lines and administrative hurdles, Attorney General Eric Holder said.
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News Link • Syria
Syrian Rebels Pledge Allegiance to Al-CIAda Group That Killed U.S. Troops
12-12-2012
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InfoWars
A new petition posted on the WhiteHouse.gov website demands that the Obama administration cease all funding and support for terrorists and extremist rebels in Syria, as news emerges of 29 different Syrian rebel groups pledging allegiance to Al-Qaeda
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
California's Population Is Moving Out, Census Report Shows
12-12-2012
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By Olga Spilewsky and Conan Nolan
More people are moving out of the state than into the state, a new Census report shows.
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News Link • China
China's New MIRV Ballistic Missile Is A Big Deal
12-12-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Robert Johnson
During the nuclear honed days of the Cold War, the Soviet Union developed a nuclear missile able to strike anywhere in the U.S.
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
There's Not A Single Spending Cut That Republican Voters Support
12-12-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Brett LoGiurato
The "compromise" in the fiscal cliff deal from Democrats is supposed to come in the form of spending cuts.
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News Link • World News
Brazil Is One Of The Few Truly Independent Countries In The World
12-12-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com,
Aside from being blessed with great weather, gorgeous beaches, and beautiful people, their country is one of the few that can exist in a state of complete independence from the rest of the world.
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