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Date Sent: 2013-02-23
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Saturday, February 23, 2013 |
US troops in Niger to set up drone base -- Moody's strips Britain of triple-A rating in major blow
Afra Raymond: Three myths about corruption -- Georgiana Vines: Ron Paul
to speak at GOP dinner in Knoxville -- What Americans Believe: Iran War
Propaganda -- US Blocks UN Resolution Condemning Damascus Bombing -- Obama Dispatches 100 US Troops To Niger To “Support Predator Drone Base” -- DHS Contractor Apologizes For Selling Shooting Targets of Children -- SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News, February 24, 2013 Edition -- UNESCO Peace Prize to a War Criminal -- Washington Backs Syrian Anti-Government Terrorism -- China, Japan, and the US May Go to War Over These Rocks -- When solitude is torture - by George Will -- Guerrilla surveillance camera destruction hits the U.S. -- Carnage in Syria Courtesy of US Allies -- Mission to transport 23,000 liters of bomb-grade uranium from Canada to US -- Campus Rape Victim: ‘I Was In A Safe Zone And My Attacker Didn’t Care’ -- Justice Department joins whistleblower lawsuit against Lance Armstrong -- Whistleblower files federal lawsuit against Morgan Stanley, FINRA -- Gov: 6 underground Hanford nuclear tanks leaking -- Brennan’s Loose Talk on Iran Nukes
AZ: "No Dinosaurs in Heaven" Screening (The Objectivists
host) Thurs. 28th; Arizona Breakfast Club Sat. 2nd.
National Gun Confiscation Day of Resistance Today
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News Link • Africa: On the Map
US troops in Niger to set up drone base
02-22-2013
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AP
President Barack Obama said Friday that about 100 American troops have been deployed to the African nation of Niger. Two U.S. defense officials the troops would be setting up a base for unarmed drones to conduct surveillance.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - International
Moody's strips Britain of triple-A rating in major blow to Osborne
02-22-2013
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Reuters
Britain suffered its first ever sovereign ratings downgrade from a major agency on Friday when Moody's stripped the country of its coveted top-notch triple-A rating, dealing a major blow to finance minister George Osborne.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Events: America
National Gun Confiscation Day of Resistance Today
02-23-2013
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Daily Paul.com
”A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed”
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Corruption
Afra Raymond: Three myths about corruption
02-23-2013
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ted.com
Trinidad and Tobago amassed great wealth in the 1970s thanks to oil. But in 1982, a shocking fact was revealed -- that 2 out of every 3 dollars earmarked for development had been wasted or stolen.
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Events: America
Georgiana Vines: Ron Paul to speak at GOP dinner in Knoxville
02-23-2013
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knoxnews.com
Ron Paul, former Texas congressman and Republican presidential contender, will speak at the Knox County Republican Party’s Lincoln Day dinner on April 12, having been invited by his friend, U.S. Rep. John J. Duncan Jr., R-Knoxville.
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Unique Brain Structures Found In Humans, Different And Unique Structures Found In Other Primates
02-23-2013
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planetsave.com
New research has found that humans possess at least two unique networks in their cerebral cortex not are not seen in rhesus monkeys.
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Iphone 5 Vs Samsung Galaxy S Iii: What Device Won in the Web Traffic Battle?
02-23-2013
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thedroidguy.com
In the battle of web traffic between the iPhone 5 and the Samsung Galaxy S III, the iPhones win.
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Entertainment: Television (TV)
Oscars 2013: Can crude comic crooner Seth MacFarlane save Oscar night?
02-23-2013
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thestar.com
Seth MacFarlane is hardly a familiar face. Can he keep traditional Oscar fans happy while pulling in a younger audience?
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Books
The Sermon Of the High Plains
02-23-2013
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online.wsj.com
A ghostly, open-ended novel of hard life in a small Colorado town. Sam Sacks reviews Kent Haruf's "Benediction" and Gerbrand Bakker's "Ten White Geese."
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Propaganda
What Americans Believe: Iran War Propaganda
02-23-2013
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Antiwar.com
A new Gallup poll found that 99% of Americans see Iran’s nuclear program as a threat to the US national security.
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • United Nations
US Blocks UN Resolution Condemning Damascus Bombing
02-23-2013
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Antiwar.com
UN Envoy Issues Personal Statement Calling Attack a 'War Crime'
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Africa: On the Map
Obama Dispatches 100 US Troops To Niger To “Support Predator Drone Base”
02-23-2013
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Prison Planet
As we speculated from the very beginning, and as was reaffirmed in “Is Nigeria, And Its Light Sweet Crude, About To Be Drawn Into The Mali “Liberation” Campaign?”, the “French” (with complete and fully-comped US support) Mali campaign is slowly but..
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gun Rights
Communist Propaganda Poster: Comrades, Turn In Your Weapons!
02-23-2013
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Prison Planet
Gun control advocates claim historical gun grabs by tyrannical regimes are a “myth”
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Cartoons and Web Graphics
Obama's Immigration Plan? (cartoon)
02-23-2013
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Tristan Shoubt
Marco Rubio said this week that Obama's immigration plan was "dead on arrival." Cartoonist Tristan Shoubt interpreted that a bit differently than most would. ;-) To share with friends, link to source page.
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Jefferson Paine
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News Link • WAR: About that War
China, Japan, and the US May Go to War Over These Rocks
02-22-2013
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Lew Rockwell blog
Here is a link to the Google Maps Satellite view of the Senkaku Islands. Take a moment to contemplate how insignificant these scrubby rocks really are. First, there are no visible houses, bases, airstrips, factories, or really anything of value other
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
When solitude is torture - by George Will
02-22-2013
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Washington Post
Meanwhile, tens of thousands of American prison inmates are kept in protracted solitary confinement that arguably constitutes torture and probably violates the Eighth Amendment prohibition of “cruel and unusual punishments.”
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Surveillance
Guerrilla surveillance camera destruction hits the U.S.
02-22-2013
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Salon
A group identifying itself as “the Barefoot Bandit Brigade” released a statement claiming to have “removed and destroyed 17 security cameras throughout the Puget Sound region,” with ostensible photo evidence published alongside
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Environment
Mission to transport 23,000 liters of bomb-grade uranium from Canada to US
02-22-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Up to 76 truckloads of radioactive waste could soon be crossing into the US from Canada, local media reveal. Relocating the weapons-grade uranium (HEU) in liquid form would be the first operation of its kind, and is set to cost $60 million.
The tr
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Gun Rights
Campus Rape Victim: ‘I Was In A Safe Zone And My Attacker Didn’t Care’
02-24-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Recently, Revealing Politics released a video of Colorado Rep. Joe Salazar arguing that college women don’t need guns to prevent rape because they can use whistles, “safe zones”, and call boxes instead. His theory behind this was that just because wo
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Justice Department joins whistleblower lawsuit against Lance Armstrong
02-22-2013
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Washington Post
The Justice Department on Friday joined a whistleblower lawsuit against disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong, increasing the odds Armstrong may have to forfeit millions of dollars paid out by his team sponsor, the U.S. Postal Service.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Whistleblower files federal lawsuit against Morgan Stanley, FINRA
02-22-2013
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Reuters
A former Morgan Stanley broker who tried to blow the whistle on what he called unethical sales practices, and was later ordered to pay $1.2 million following his departure, is seeking his day in federal court.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Environment
Gov: 6 underground Hanford nuclear tanks leaking
02-22-2013
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AP
Six underground tanks that hold a brew of radioactive and toxic waste at the nation's most contaminated nuclear site are leaking, federal and state officials said Friday, prompting calls for an investigation from a key senator.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Politics: Independent and Other Campaigns
MIGHT the NO MOVIE show LIBERTY ACTIVISTS the WAY to PERSUADE the MASSES?
02192031
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www.varight.com
The Oscar-nominated foreign film NO is based on the true (and successful) campaign to oust Chilean dictator Pinochet at the ballot in 1988. Might it show the way for liberty activists to persuade the people to embrace liberty and sovereignty and the
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Reported by:
Sandy Sanders
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News Link • Bill of Rights
NDAA mentioned on PRIME TIME TELEVISION SHOW Tuesday night? GOOD or BAD?
02212013
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www.varight.com
Tuesday in prime time, the NDAA was actually mentioned - and invoked - in a television show. NCIS/LA is one of the most popular shows in prime time. Is it good that liberty activists can point to this invocation or bad in that the police state is c
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Sandy Sanders
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News Link • United Nations
MORE PROOF ICLEI has a FOREIGN POLICY? RIGHT IN the ICLEI USA WEBSITE! ICLEI USA MEETS WITH STATE
02222013
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www.varight.com
ICLEI, the federation of US and foreign local governments, was caught again - conducting foreign policy! ICLEI seeks a place at the table for local governments at UN climate conferences. That violates the Constitution's ban on local governments fr
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Sandy Sanders
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Opinion • Iran
Ray McGovern: My Take
Brennan’s Loose Talk on Iran Nukes
02-22-2013
Ray McGovern
MEMORANDUM FOR: Senator Dianne Feinstein, Chair, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence FROM: Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity
SUBJECT: Due Diligence on John Brennan
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News Link • Housing
Federal program could bail out more homeowners.
02-22-2013
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http://www.ocregister.com/articles/mortgage-496749
If you believe for a minute the Feds have your interest at heart, think again. How can Fannie or Freddie have any authority to make any determinations as to the status of the property when they are themselves, insolvent? They are in conservartorshi
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Christine Fitzpatrick
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News Link • Events: Arizona
Arizona Breakfast Club - February 2, 2013
02-22-2013
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www.youtube.com
Monthly meeting of the Arizona Breakfast Club. Held on February 2nd, 2013. Ernest Hancock and Alan Korwin - Gun Control.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Obama Administration
White House Must Respond Publicly to Ban on Mobile-Phone Unlocking
02-21-2013
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Wired.com
The President Barack Obama administration must enter the mobile-phone-unlocking fray.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Homeland Security
Toddler in wheelchair heading to Disney cries during run-in with TSA agents
02-21-2013
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wftv.com
A family’s run-in with Transportation Security Administration screeners at Missouri's Lambert-St. Louis International Airport as they were heading to Orlando on vacation was caught on camera, and is raising questions about airport security rules.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Government
Axiom 4: A Blueprint To Restore The Articles of Confederation
02-21-2013
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The Daily Bell
This is the fourth of the "12 Axioms of Freedom Restoration" set forth in my introductory article on this topic, "How to Restore the West."
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Energy
NASA's basement nuclear reactor
02-20-2013
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GizMag
Joseph Zawodny, a senior scientist at NASA’s Langley Research Center, is correct, the future of energy may lie in a nuclear reactor small enough and safe enough to be installed where the home water heater once sat. Using weak nuclear forces that tur
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Ronald Bogner
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News Link • Homeland Security
United Airlines Kicks Man off Flight for Photographing Video Monitor in Front of Him
02-21-2013
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Prison Planet
A travel writer was kicked off a United Airlines flight last week for taking a picture of the video monitor in front of him, forcing him to dish out an additional $225 to find another cross Atlantic flight from Newark to Istanbul.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gun Rights
Sheriff Responds to Attacks Over “Second Revolution” Comments
02-21-2013
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Prison Planet
“The American people will decide when to push back, not me.”
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Syria
Carnage in Syria Courtesy of US Allies
02-21-2013
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Prison Planet
While the US and its Western partners pretend to be engaged in a global war against terrorism, their terrorist allies in Syria have set off another car bomb, tellingly very close to the ruling Baath party offices and the Russian embassy.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gun Rights
Gun Control Was " Historically " About Repressing Blacks
02-21-2013
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Prison Planet
Preface: I was raised to be against guns. My parents hated guns, and believed that they only lead to crime and accidental shootings.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Death
Senator Lists the Death Toll From U.S. Drones at 4,700 People
02-21-2013
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Wired.com
The government says you can’t know how many people U.S. drone strikes have killed, because that’s a state secret.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • World News
Indian Authorities Shut Down Mobile Network To Stop 'Rumors' After Deadly Bomb Attacks
02-21-2013
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Business Insider
The southern Indian city of Hyderabad has been hit by twin bomb blasts in a bus station and a cinema, the BBC reports.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Housing
Home Prices Climbed At Their Fastest Rate Since November 2005
02-21-2013
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Business Insider
We just saw January existing home sales come in better than expectations.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Here Are The Devastating Effects Of Sequestration On The US Military
02-21-2013
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Business Insider
Automatic budget cuts that could hit on Mar. 1 have top military leadership scrambling, with Army General Ray Odierno warning that they will reduce the service to a "hollow Army."
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Healthcare
Florida's Republican Governor Has Caved On Obamacare Medicare Expansion
02-21-2013
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Business Insider
Florida governor Rick Scott, one of the sharpest critics of President Obama's healthcare law, announced late Wednesday that he wanted the state to participate in an optional portion of the law after all.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Retail Apocalypse: Why Are Major Retail Chains All Over America Collapsing?
02-21-2013
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theeconomiccollapseblog.com
If the economy is improving, then why are many of the largest retail chains in America closing hundreds of stores?
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - International
Health Care Privatization in Spain
02-21-2013
The United States proves Emilia right. Privatization here has produced the highest health care costs of anywhere else in the developed world; the United States spends far more money on health care than any other OECD nation. And, although the bankste
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