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Date Sent: 2013-02-19
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Tuesday, February 19, 2013 AM edition |
CO House passes gun-control measures -- Pro-Gun Lawmakers Open to Limits on Magazine Size
AZ Court: You Don't Have to Be High to Get a DUI -- Autopsy finds that Md. man with Down syndrome asphyxiated by cops --
Governments Look for New Ways to Pay for Roads and Bridges -- Other
countries court skilled immigrants frustrated by U.S. visa laws --
Forget the big comeback; Detroit focuses on what can be saved -- Obama Could Revisit Arming Syria Rebels as Assad Holds Firm -- E.U. foreign ministers reject arming Syrian rebels -- ABC15 Mornings- Marc Victor on Jodi Arias Case -- Candidly Speaking: Reviewing the case of Prisoner X -- 50 Days of
Freedom – LIVE – 12 Hour Broadcast – Feb 23 @ Noon Central (Video)
-- Miguel
Nicolelis: A monkey that controls a robot with its thoughts. No,
really. -- John McCain: Background Checks Will Get
Broad Support In Senate -- Daily Caller: Sens. McConnell, Paul join
forces to legalize hemp -- Get Ready for Some Major Disinformation
about America's Gold -- Chicago Police Chief is now a "Clear and
Present Danger" to the public safety -- $5
Gas Returns To Southland -- Obama to receive Israel’s presidential
medal of honor -- Multiple ‘fireballs’ seen zooming over Miami -- Israeli soldier posts Instagram image of Palestinian child in
crosshairs of rifle -- 02-18-13 -- Fernando Antonio Salguero - James
Babb - 3rd Hour Announcement of New FP Project :) -- Burger King's
Twitter Got Hacked And Tweeted Crazy McDonald's Messages -- Defense Cuts and the Global Empire
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News Link • Gun Rights
Colo. House passes gun-control measures
02-18-2013
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AP
Limits on the size of ammunition magazines and universal background checks passed the Colorado House on Monday, during a second day of emotional debates that has drawn attention from the White House as lawmakers try to address recent mass shootings.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Pro-Gun Lawmakers Are Open to Limits on Size of Magazines
02-18-2013
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New York Times
“We do know that historically in these instances, amateurs have trouble switching magazines,” Mr. Murphy said, referring to the high-capacity ammunition feeding device used by Mr. Lanza to shoot scores of bullets in seconds.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Justice and Judges
AZ Court: You Don't Have to Be High to Get a DUI
02-18-2013
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An Arizona appeals court ruled marijuana users don't need to be actually impaired to be successfully prosecuted for driving under the influence. The common sense-defying ruling came in the case of a man who tested positive for an inactive marijuana m
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Autopsy finds that Md. man with Down syndrome asphyxiated by cops
02-18-2013
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Washington Post
The Frederick County Sheriff’s Office says the death of a mentally disabled man in police custody has been ruled a homicide. Cpl. Jennifer Bailey said the state medical examiner determined that 26-year-old Robert Saylor died of asphyxia
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Governments Look for New Ways to Pay for Roads and Bridges
02-18-2013
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New York Times
Cars are becoming more efficient and people are driving less. That is good for the environment, but bad for the revenues that go into building and maintaining roads, because it means the money collected from gasoline taxes has been dwindling while co
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Other countries court skilled immigrants frustrated by U.S. visa laws
02-18-2013
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Washington Post
It might be a break-through that creates wealth and jobs in the United States and transforms the industry of oil and natural gas hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. That is, as long as the foreign-born inventors aren’t forced to leave the country.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Forget the big comeback; Detroit focuses on what can be saved
02-18-2013
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Reuters
Imagine a city with open space larger than the size of Paris, where people are planting hardwood trees and vegetable gardens, and neighbors have plenty of room to spread out.
It would sound so idyllic, if only it weren't Detroit.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Syria
Obama Could Revisit Arming Syria Rebels as Assad Holds Firm
02-18-2013
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New York Times
When President Obama rebuffed national security officials who wanted to arm the rebels in Syria, he put an end to a months of debate over how aggressively Washington should respond to the strife there that has now left nearly 70,000 dead.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Syria
E.U. foreign ministers reject arming Syrian rebels
02-18-2013
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Washington Post
Rejecting a push by Britain, European governments decided against providing weapons to Syrian rebel forces, expressing fears that more arms would lead only to more bloodshed in a conflict that has already taken nearly 70,000 lives.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Marc Victor
ABC15 Mornings- Marc Victor on Jodi Arias Case
02-18-2013
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Youtube
Christopher Signs of ABC 15 Mornings News interviews attorney Marc J. Victor about the Jodi Arias Murder Trial.
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Mike Wasdin
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News Link • Israel
Candidly Speaking: Reviewing the case of Prisoner X
02/17/2013
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Isi Liebler - The Jerusalem Post
Anti-Israeli elements in Australia, supported by sections of the media, tried to exploit the situation in order to besmirch Israel’s image.
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J E Andreasen
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News Link • Media: Internet
50 Days of Freedom " LIVE " 12 Hour Broadcast " Feb 23 @ Noon Central (Video)
02-18-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Join us for “50 Days of Freedom” as we chronicle our progress over the last 50+ days, showcase exclusive guests and remote reports from around the nation " this is an event not to be missed. Starting LIVE at 12:00 Central at http://NextNewsNetwork.co
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Art
The Quirky World of Competitive Snow Carving Comes to California
02-18-2013
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Wired.com
The weekend at Northstar ski resort in Truckee, California, is beautiful, sunny, and in the 30s. For eight teams of snow carvers from around the world, though, it’s terrible " the melty snow is sloppy, hard to carve, and even dangerous.
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News Link • Archaeology
New Whale Species Unearthed in California Highway Dig
02-18-2013
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Wired.com
Chalk yet another fossil find up to roadcut science. Thanks to a highway-widening project in California’s Laguna Canyon, scientists have identified several new species of early toothed baleen whales.
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News Link • Animals and Pets
Miguel Nicolelis: A monkey that controls a robot with its thoughts. No, really.
02-18-2013
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ted.com
Can we use our brains to directly control machines -- without requiring a body as the middleman? Miguel Nicolelis talks through an astonishing experiment, in which a clever monkey in the US learns to control a monkey avatar, and then a robot arm...
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News Link • Gun Rights
John McCain: Background Checks Will Get Broad Support In Senate
02-18-2013
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Daily Paul.com
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said Sunday that he expects bipartisan legislation expanding background checks on gun purchases to have broad support in the Senate.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Agriculture
Daily Caller: Sens. McConnell, Paul join forces to legalize hemp
02-18-2013
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Daily Paul.com
Kentucky Sens. Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul have announced that they will co-sponsor legislation that would allow American farmers to grow hemp legally.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Get Ready for Some Major Disinformation about America's Gold
02-18-2013
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Daily Paul.com
An audit of the gold held at the New York Federal Reserve has been completed and the disinformation campaign has started. Notice how LaTi reports the story:
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gun Rights
Chicago Police Chief is now a "Clear and Present Danger" to the public safety
02-18-2013
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Daily Paul.com
By declaring the lawful exercise of the Second Article of Amendment to the Constitution for the United States to be a "danger to public safety" the Chicago Police Chief has made himself, a "clear and present danger" to the same.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Architecture
Garbage Warrior-Got Beer Cans, Water Bottles & Tires?
02-18-2013
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Daily Paul.com
What do beer cans, car tires and water bottles have in common? Not much unless you're renegade architect Michael Reynolds, in which case they are tools of choice for producing thermal mass and energy-independent housing
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
$5 Gas Returns To Southland
02-18-2013
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Prison Planet
Gas prices in Southern California rose again on Monday, leaving some drivers paying over $5.00 per gallon.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Israel
Obama to receive Israel’s presidential medal of honor
02-18-2013
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Raw Story
Barack Obama will become the first serving US president to receive Israel’s presidential medal, from his Israeli counterpart Shimon Peres on a visit to the Jewish state next month, Peres’s office said on Monday.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Multiple ‘fireballs’ seen zooming over Miami
02-18-2013
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Raw Story
Authorities received numerous reports of “fireballs” zooming through the sky over Miami on Sunday night, and at least one of them was caught on tape by an amateur videographer.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Israel - Palestine
Israeli soldier posts Instagram image of Palestinian child in crosshairs of rifle
02-18-2013
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rawstory.com
An Israeli soldier has sparked outrage by posting a photograph appearing to show the back of a Palestinian boy’s head in the crosshairs of his sniper rifle on a social networking site.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Anonymous
Burger King's Twitter Got Hacked And Tweeted Crazy McDonald's Messages
02-18-2013
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Business Insider
Burger King's Twitter account got hacked for more than an hour and tweeted out some crazy McDonald's messages.
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Opinion • Books
CONNECTING THE DOTS
Falling Uphill: 25,742 miles, 1461 days, 50 countries, 6 continents, 4 moments of enlightenment
02-18-2013
Frosty Wooldridge
He who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality, therefore, make any progress. J.K Rowling, author of Harry Potter, said, “Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.”
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News Link • Police State
Elderly couple pulled over after their Buckeye car decal is mistaken for a marijuana leaf
02-17-2013
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sports.yahoo.com
Apparently Ohio State " and college football in general " isn’t very popular in the state of Tennessee.
At least not with the police.
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News Link • Gold and Silver
China’s Gold demand to outstrip supply by 2015 by 550 metric tons
02-17-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
China has a ferocious appetite for Gold now. In 2012, Hong Kong shipped 94% more gold to the mainland than they did in 2011.
They are buying all the gold they can get and China’s gold councils have projected by 2015, China’s demand will outstrip
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Politics
Postal Monopoly and Saturday Delivery
2-17-2013
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Free Press Publications
The Postmaster General recently announced that the United States Postal Service will be ending Saturday delivery of first-class mail by August of 2013. Many people are upset at this cut in service. But few people are asking the real question: why doe
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News Link • Corruption
SEC Files Lawsuit Against 'Certain Unknown Traders' Over Heinz Call Options
02-17-2013
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http://www.cnbc.com
Acting just one day after the surprise announcement that H.J. Heinz would be acquired by Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway and Brazil-based 3G Capital for $23.3 billion, the SEC has gone to court to freeze assets associated with what it calls "high
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News Link • Military
Army may have to extend deployments in Afghanistan
02-17-2013
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http://hosted.ap.org, By LOLITA C. BALDOR
Soldiers deployed to Afghanistan next year may see their war tours extended because budget cuts will drastically limit training for brigades to replace them, the top Army general said Friday.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Military
Hey! You look good with that target on your back!
02-17-2013
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http://www.dailypaul.com, fishyculture
"This study, released by the United States Military Academy’s Combating Terrorism Center, is entitled “Challengers from the Sidelines: Understanding America’s Violent Far-Right.”
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Food
Vernon Bowman, Indiana Farmer, Prepares To Take On Monsanto In Seed Patent Case
02-17-2013
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by emalvini
A 75-year-old Indiana grain farmer will take on global seed giant Monsanto Co at the U.S. Supreme Court next week in a patent battle that could have ramifications for the biotechnology industry and possibly the future of food production.
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News Link • Government
Elizabeth Warren Asks The Most Obvious Question Ever And Stumps A Bunch Of Bank Regulators
02-17-2013
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http://www.dailypaul.com, kane1
Elizabeth Warren EMBARRASSES Bank Regulators At First Hearing
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News Link • Draft
Rangel introducing legislation to reinstate the draft
02-17-2013
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http://video.msnbc.msn.com, Morning Joe
Rep. Charlie Rangel, D-N.Y., talks about the two bills which will reintroduce the draft and require all women to register for Selective Service.
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News Link • Intellectual Property
Stephan Kinsella on AVTM: Ron Paul Likely to Lose RonPaul.com Suit
02-17-2013
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http://www.dailypaul.com, Evan42
Kinsella: "My guess he [Ron Paul] is going to lose this suit."
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Cops Nab 5-Year-Old for Wearing Wrong Color Shoes to School
02-17-2013
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http://www.dailypaul.com, ecard71
In Mississippi, if kindergarteners violate the dress code or act out in class, they may end up in the back of a police car.
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News Link • Politics: General Activism
Julie Borowski opposes the Violence Against Women Act
02-17-2013
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http://www.dailypaul.com, Lysiandad
Julie Borowski opposes the Violence Against Women Act and she explains why
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News Link • Homeland Security
Why is the Department of Homeland Security buying so many bullets?
02-17-2013
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http://www.foxnews.com, Associated Press
Online rumors about a big government munitions purchase are true, sort of.
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Another Meteor Flashes Across San Fran Bay Area Skies on 2/15/13
02-17-2013
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http://www.youtube.com, MichaelSavage4Prez
On the heels of a close fly-by of an asteroid 17,000 miles from Earth on Friday morning and a devastating meteor that landed in Russia, Bay Area stargazers caught a glimpse of another meteor Friday night.
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News Link • Homeland Security
Your Rights Under Attack: What A Difference 100 Miles Makes
02-16-2013
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jonathanturley.org
We are all aware of and concerned about the steady erosion of our civil rights at the hands of ever overreaching Federal government.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Activism
Bogus flier taped to trash cans worries neighbors
02-16-2013
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http://www.kpho.com
TEMPE, AZ (CBS5) - A bogus flier from the fictional "Office of Information Awareness" is being taped to trash cans in Tempe, and it has some neighbors worried.
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News Link • TERRORISM
Market bomb kills 79 in southwest Pakistan
02-16-2013
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Antiwar.com
A bomb targeting Shiite Muslims in a busy market in Pakistan's insurgency-hit southwest killed 79 people including women and children and wounded 180 others, officials said.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gun Rights
Stewart Rhodes Speaks at Albany New York Gun Rights Rally on February 12
02-16-2013
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oathkeepers.org
Oath Keepers Founder Stewart Rhodes gave a fiery speech to approximately 3,000 New York gun owners, urging them to refuse to comply to the “SAFE Act,” to refuse to disarm, to nullify at every level.
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