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Date Sent: 2012-12-29
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Saturday, December 29, 2012 |
Senate votes to extend warrantless wiretapping powers -- 200 Utah teachers take gun training
National Rifle Association vows to fight arms trade treaty at U.N. -- Heroic South Korean woman slaps TSA agent over pat down -- Uphold the Sacred Cause of "Officer Safety": Disarm the Cops! -- Chinese Hackers Suspected in Cyber Attack on Council on Foreign Relations -- Why Do the Neocons Hate LRC? - by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. -- The FBI's secret file on Marilyn Monroe: Kept track of intimate details about actress -- Breaking Rank -- NY woman hit with federal, state charges connected to guns used in firefighter ambush slayings -- L.A. Gun Buyback Event Yields 2 Rocket Launchers -- AzDPS probing Prescott assault involving officers (Membership Criteria...) -- The Larger Question of Chuck Hagel -- How and Why Speaker of the House John Boehner Might be Ousted in a Week -- People Are Finally Waking Up To China's Massive Over-investment Problem -- The Mississippi River's Water Levels Are Dropping, And Could Shut Down Trade Next Week -- Kim Dotcom Is Hosting An 'Epic' Press Event At His New Zealand Mansion For Mega Launch Next -- Republicans Are Making It Very Clear They're Going To Pursue Another Debt Ceiling Fight -- SEMI-NEWS: A Satirical Look at Recent News, Best of 2012 Edition
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News Link • Surveillance
Senate votes to extend warrantless wiretapping powers
12-28-2012
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Washington Post
Congress approved a measure Friday that would renew expansive U.S. surveillance authority for five more years, rejecting objections from senators who are concerned the legislation does not adequately protect Americans’ privacy.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
200 Utah teachers take free firearms training class
12-28-2012
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FOX News
Gun-rights advocates in Utah offered six hours of training Thursday in handling concealed weapons for hundreds of Utah teachers in the wake of the massacre in Newtown, Connecticut.
The latest effort to arm teachers to confront school assailants wa
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
National Rifle Association vows to fight arms trade treaty at U.N.
12-28-2012
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Reuters
The leading U.S. pro-gun group, the National Rifle Association, has vowed to fight a draft international treaty to regulate the $70 billion global arms trade and dismissed suggestions that a recent U.S. school shooting bolstered the case for such a p
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
South Korean woman slaps TSA agent over pat down: report
12-28-2012
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Rawstory
The woman, 39-year-old Hyunjoo Kim, reportedly objected to the agent becoming a bit touchy, and to her bottles of lotion being turned away at a checkpoint. She then slapped one agent and pushed another several times
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Mathematician's Century-Old Secrets Unlocked
12-28-2012
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LiveScience
While on his death bed, the brilliant Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan cryptically wrote down functions he said came to him in dreams, with a hunch about how they behaved. Now 100 years later, researchers say they've proved he was right.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
Uphold the Sacred Cause of "Officer Safety": Disarm the Cops!
12-28-2012
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Lew Rockwell blog
After Adam Lanza took four guns that belonged to his mother and used them to murder her and dozens of other people, we witnessed an entirely predictable " and repellently opportunistic "escalation of the war on individual gun ownership.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
Chinese Hackers Suspected in Cyber Attack on Council on Foreign Relations
12-28-2012
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Computer hackers traced to China carried out an advanced cyberespionage attack against one of America’s most elite foreign policy web groups " the website of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR).
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Philosophy: Anarchism
Why Do the Neocons Hate LRC? - by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.
12-28-2012
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Lew Rockwell
The other day, the Southern Poverty Law Center discovered a set of ideas that had to be stomped out of existence: anarcho-capitalism. That’s LewRockwell.com, of course. But the SPLC will have to get in line behind the rest of the neocons: the NY Time
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Surveillance
The FBI's secret file on Marilyn Monroe: Kept track of intimate details about actress
12-28-2012
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Daily Mail
A classified file released by the FBI shows how the agency tracked Marilyn Monroe's suspected ties to communism in 1956. The agency documented an anonymous phone call to the New York Daily News that year warning that playwright Arthur Miller was a co
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Breaking Rank
12-28-2012
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Simple Justice
Officer Watts began opening her mailbox from the side instead of from the front in case of a bomb. Watts' supervisors "do not believe that it would ever be safe for her to return to road patrol" and if she ever need police backup it would not be prov
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
NY woman hit with federal, state charges connected to guns used in firefighter ambush slayings
12-28-2012
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Washington Post
Police used the serial numbers on the rifle and shotgun, which were purchased on June 6, 2010, to trace them to Nguyen, Hochul said.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
L.A. Gun Buyback Event Yields 2 Rocket Launchers
12-28-2012
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Authorities collected 2,037 firearms, including 75 assault weapons, and two anti-tank rocket launchers during L.A.’s annual gun buyback event. “Those are weapons of war, weapons of death,” LAPD Chief Charlie Beck said
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
AzDPS probing Prescott assault involving officers (Membership Criteria...)
12-27-2012
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KPHO TV-5 CBS Phoenix
The department turned over the investigation of Saturday night's incident involving members of the Iron Brotherhood Motorcycle Club to the Department of Public Safety once Prescott Valley police officers were recognized among the bikers.
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Powell Gammill
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Opinion • Stay or Go?
Ray McGovern: My Take
The Larger Question of Chuck Hagel
12-28-2012
Ray McGovern
The up-in-the-air nomination of Chuck Hagel to be Defense Secretary has become a test of whether the Israel Lobby can still shoot down an American public servant who is deemed insufficiently passionate regarding Israel, a test that now confronts Pres
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News Link • Government
How and Why Speaker of the House John Boehner Might be Ousted in a Week
12-28-2012
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Daily Paul.com
Is there a secret plan underway to oust Speaker of the House John Boehner from his speakership? Could it really happen?
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Robert Lee
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News Link • China
People Are Finally Waking Up To China's Massive Over-investment Problem
12-28-2012
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Business Insider
The IMF’s Il Houng Lee, Murtaza Syed, and Liu Xueyan have published a very interesting and widely-noticed study called “Is China Overinvesting and Does it Matter?”
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Internet
This Site Mocks You For Having 'First-World Problems,'
12-28-2012
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Business Insider
These days, a lot of money and work in Silicon Valley goes into building mundane things like sharing apps and social games.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Entrepreneurship
Right Now, All The Top Investors Are Scrambling To Invest In A Startup Called Chromatik
12-28-2012
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Business Insider
Matt Sandler's used to getting chased after.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Earth's Twin Will Be Found in 2013, Experts Say
12-28-2012
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Business Insider
The first truly Earth-like alien planet is likely to be spotted next year, an epic discovery that would cause humanity to reassess its place in the universe.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Weather News - Links - History
The Mississippi River's Water Levels Are Dropping, And Could Shut Down Trade Next Week
12-28-2012
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Business Insider
The Mississippi River level is dropping again and barge industry trade groups warned Thursday that river commerce could essentially come to a halt as early as next week in an area south of St. Louis.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Internet
Kim Dotcom Is Hosting An 'Epic' Press Event At His New Zealand Mansion For Mega Launch Next
12-28-2012
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Business Insider
Kim Dotcom is all set to launch his MegaUpload replacement, Mega, next month.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Republicans Are Making It Very Clear They're Going To Pursue Another Debt Ceiling Fight
12-28-2012
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Business Insider
Two Republican Senators began to signal today that they will attempt to frame negotiations around an increase in the debt ceiling, potentially creating a situation early next year that would mirror the crisis of the summer of 2011.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Technology: Software
Turn Your Laptop Into a Spectrometer
12-28-2012
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.popularmechanics.com
With a few hours and about $60, you and build with essential piece of scientific equipment that analyzes light to determine what matter is made of.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • World News
Links to eleven potential 2013 news stories that might be off of your radar (but shouldn't be)!
12-28-2012
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The Political Commentator
While all eyes in the United States are currently on the fiscal cliff and the debt ceiling debates, this article contains links to eleven domestic and global hotspots that could be very much in the news in 2013!
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Michael Haltman
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News Link • Agriculture
Bee Tales
12-28-2012
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arclein
Bees are the pollinators of the vast majority of plant life. They are said to account for 80% of pollination by insects. And with populations dropping, it’s crucial that people in power take note of studies like this and take steps to remedy the decl
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News Link • Philosophy of Liberty
Freedom: Because It Works or Because It’s Right?
12-28-2012
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The Independent Institute - Robert Higgs
Libertarians divide into two broad classes: those who espouse a free society because it gives better results than an unfree society, and those who espouse a free society because they believe that it is wrong to deny or suppress a person’s right to be
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Iran
Blogger's death stirs political hornet's nest in Iran
12-27-2012
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http://www.reuters.com, By Babak Dehghanpisheh
There was little about Sattar Beheshti that made him stand out in a working-class suburb south of Tehran called Robat Karim.
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
I am Adam Lanza’s Doctor " Rima E. Laibow, MD
12-26-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
I have worked with Autistic people of all ages, the Asberger’s Syndrome people, Schrizophrenic people, BiPolar people, Multiple Personality Disorder people, OCD, ADD, ADHD, and pretty much every other type of labeled person in my 42+ year career sinc
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Revolving Door
For outgoing lawmakers, connections mean chance to cash in
12-27-2012
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Brian Montopoli, Russ Choma / CBS News
Rep. Jo Ann Emerson, R-Mo., said in a statement that she was leaving Congress not "because I have lost my heart for service," but rather because the job offered "a new way to serve."
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
This Was Definitely Not A Merry Christmas For Retail
12-27-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Margaret Bogenrief
Here in Chicago, shopping for last minute holiday gifts, it was easy to spot a trend that routinely presented itself in the checkout line. At the cash register, customers were, time and time again, using just that: cash, to pay for their purchases.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Gun Rights
Why The US Should Force People To Buy Insurance If They Want Guns
12-27-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com,The Economist
NOURIEL ROUBINI, a guy who knows a lot about risk, tweets in favour of mandatory liability insurance for gun owners
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News Link • Gun Rights
Stopping the spread of deadly assault weapons
12-27-2012
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feinstein.senate.gov
In January, Senator Feinstein will introduce a bill to stop the sale, transfer, importation and manufacturing of military-style assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition feeding devises.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Gun Rights
OBAMA: A 'main incentive' to run: 'So we can have men with guns around at all times'
12-27-2012
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www.dailymail.co.uk
'One of the main incentives of running was continued Secret Service protection so we can have men with guns around at all times,' the father of two joked.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Government
Russia’s Top Cyber Sleuth Foils US Spies, Helps Kremlin Pals
07-23-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By Noah Shachtman
A group of 60 or so financial analysts, reporters, diplomats, and cybersecurity specialists shake off the previous night’s tequila and file into a ballroom at the Ritz-Carlton hotel. At the front of the room, a giant screen shows a globe targeted by
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News Link • TAXES: State
Why States May Want to Fall off the 'Cliff'
12-27-2012
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Reuters
Falling off the "fiscal cliff" is a bad thing, right? Not necessarily for some state governments that could begin collecting more in estate taxes on wealth left to heirs if the United States goes over the "cliff," allowing sharp tax increases and fed
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
St. Paul shop caught with smoking gum
12-27-2012
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A back-in-the-day soda shop in St. Paul has been busted for selling cigarettes -- made of candy. It's illegal!
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News Link • Property Rights
Hollywood studio IP addresses caught pirating rivals’ films
12-27-2012
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Rawstory
Internet protocol (IP) addresses associated with several major Hollywood studios were recently logged using bittorrent networks to share films created by rival studios, according to a report on peer-to-peer blog TorrentFreak.
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News Link • Social Security
Social Security Ran $47.8B Deficit in FY 2012; Disabled Workers Hit New Record
12-27-2012
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CNS News
The Social Security program ran a $47.8 billion deficit in fiscal 2012 as the program brought in $725.429 billion in cash and paid $773.247 for benefits and overhead expenses, according to official data published by Social Security Administration.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Cops Shoot, Kill Dog in its Fenced Backyard During Search For Fugitive
12-27-2012
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CBS News (video)
She said she’d just put Kobi in her closed, fenced-in yard at about 6:50 a.m. on Christmas Eve. She said, 5 minutes later, Hazel Crest police showed up at her door. “One of the officers said, ‘Ma’am, your dog is dead.’ Heartless,” Weaver said.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Prosecution as Persecution: The Carol Asher Case
12-27-2012
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by William N. Grigg (Pro Liberate)
"Mr. Wasden, .... several years ago you tried to put a 66-year-old retired nun named Carol Asher in prison for fourteen years because she acted as a conscientious juror. Have you ever apologized to her for that abuse of discretion?"
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News Link • China
Professor: Don't Be Surprised If There's A War Between Japan And China In The Next Year
12-27-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Rob Wile
Chinese planes flew near Japanese airspace Monday to assert its claims to Japan's Senkaku islands (China calls them the Diaoyu islands).
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gun Rights
NeVer Trust Anyone Who Attempts To Disarm You!
12-27-2012
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http://www.dailypaul.com, dailypauler
GUN CONTROL: Seeking effective debate techniques that utterly obliterate the anti-gun argument.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Ron Paul's Final Question: Is There Any Explanation For It All?
12-27-2012
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http://www.dailypaul.com, MarcMadness
We here at Lions Of Liberty are a fairly passionate bunch.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Conspiracies
I Think It's Official, The Sandy Hook Hoax Has Backfired
12-27-2012
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http://www.dailypaul.com, zooamerica
Are we all experiencing the, "shift in consciousness," as I type?
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Philosophy: Fascism
Something Wicked Comes This Way
12-27-2012
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http://www.thedailybell.com,
If the smartest people in the world were simply allowed to organize it properly, we'd all live in a Nirvana and never have to make any decisions on our own.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • World News
A First-Hand Account Of The Beginning Of A Military Coup In Mali
12-27-2012
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http://www.mintpress.net, Joseph Odhiambo
I summoned courage to finally draw back the curtains and leaned cautiously through my open window into the warm night
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Documents Show Mass FBI Infiltration Of OWS, Movement Treated As Criminal, Terrorist Threat
12-27-2012
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http://www.mintpress.net, Lisa Barron
MintPress " The FBI is once again conducting itself with no regard for American citizens’ constitutional rights.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
U.S. will hit debt limit on Dec. 31, Treasury Department says
12-26-2012
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Washington Post
The U.S. government will hit the $16.4 trillion federal debt limit on Monday and turn to “extraordinary measures” to continue borrowing, the Treasury Department said, beginning a countdown until Congress either passes legislation to allow for more bo
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