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Date Sent: 2013-03-30
Freedom's Phoenix Edition for Saturday, March 30, 2013 |
American Terrorist in Syria Was Working For CIA, Says Father
Strong American role still exists at Afghan-controlled prison --
Maryland Senate approves gas tax increase; gun-control bill survives
House panel’s fight -- Republican governor wants scheduled sales tax decrease cancelled -- 3 dozen indicted in Atlanta cheating scandal -- Judge finds for banks, dismisses most claims in Libor lawsuits --
'Fiddling While the Pentagon Burns' -- Video: Planned Parenthood
Official Argues for Right to Post-Birth Abortion -- Why Butter Is a
Health Food -- How To Raise Backyard Chickens -- Not Even Gold Will Save Us -- War Scare in Korea – A Manufactured Crisis -- Rand Paul calls Obama, Bloomberg hypocritical in gun control fight -- Congressional Abdication on Foreign Policy -- SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News, March 31, 2013 Edition -- Getting Started with Bitcoin, Part 2: Selecting a Wallet -- New coronavirus is potentially more deadly than SARS -- 'Skynet' Drones Work Together for "Homeland Security" -- Poverty in the U.S.A: Nearly 50 Million Americans on Food Stamps --
The Trial of Hank Rearden (Atlas Shrugged 2 Court Scene) -- Pentagon Gears Up For Global Cyber Warfare. China Accused of Cyber Espionage -- War: What is it Good For? -- Genetic Engineering, Eugenics and the Ideology of the Rich -- The Chess Game of Capital Controls
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
American Terrorist in Syria Was Working For CIA, Says Father
03-29-2013
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Prison Planet
The father of U.S. Army veteran Eric Harroun, arrested on Tuesday night by the FBI for fighting alongside an Al-Qaeda group in Syria, says his son was working for the CIA.
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News Link • Afghanistan
Strong American role still exists at Afghan-controlled prison
03-29-2013
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Washington Post
Days after the Parwan detention center was ceremoniously transferred to Afghan control, its courtroom was full of American bailiffs, American advisers and American attorneys.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Maryland Senate approves gas tax increase; gun-control bill survives House panel’s fight
03-29-2013
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Washington Post
Maryland lawmakers gave final approval to the first increase in the state’s gas tax in 20 years, acting to replenish a transportation fund that is rapidly running out of money for highway construction and long-planned mass-transit projects.
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News Link • TAXES: State
Republican governor wants scheduled sales tax decrease cancelled
03-29-2013
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AP
Gov. Sam Brownback said Kansas' "budget reality" will push lawmakers toward his proposal to cancel a scheduled decrease in the state sales tax. Brownback said legislators have limited options for stabilizing the budget while seeking tax cuts
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
3 dozen indicted in Atlanta cheating scandal
03-29-2013
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Washington Post
The former superintendent of Atlanta Public Schools and nearly three dozen other administrators, teachers, principals and other educators were indicted Friday in one of the nation’s largest cheating scandals.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Judge finds for banks, dismisses most claims in Libor lawsuits
03-29-2013
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Reuters
A judge on Friday dismissed a "substantial portion" of claims facing a number of banks in a barrage of lawsuits accusing them of interest-rate rigging.
U.S. District Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald in Manhattan ruled for the banks, which include Bank o
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
'Fiddling While the Pentagon Burns'
03-29-2013
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weeklystandard.com
Much has been made of the fact that the new spending bill passed by Congress this past month has given the Defense Department both $10 billion additional dollars to help alleviate the shortfalls in its operations and maintenance accounts ....
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News Link • Healthcare
Video: Planned Parenthood Official Argues for Right to Post-Birth Abortion
03-29-2013
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weeklystandard.com
Florida legislators considering a bill to require abortionists to provide medical care to an infant who survives an abortion were shocked during a committee hearing this week when a Planned Parenthood official endorsed a right to post-birth abortion.
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News Link • Food
Why Butter Is a Health Food
03-29-2013
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Lewrockwell.com
Butter is a health food. There, I said it.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Not Even Gold Will Save Us
03-29-2013
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Lewrockwell.com
Dr. Marc Faber, author of the Gloom Boom and Doom newsletter is usually a bear on stocks and a bull on gold. In an interview of 3/27 he discusses gold and the enormity of the crisis ahead. He said:
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News Link • Propaganda
War Scare in Korea " A Manufactured Crisis
03-29-2013
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Lewrockwell.com
The United States and the two feuding Koreas could blunder into a real war unless both Pyongyang and Washington cease provoking one another.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gun Rights
Rand Paul calls Obama, Bloomberg hypocritical in gun control fight
03-29-2013
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Prison Planet
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said there was a “certain amount of hypocrisy” in politicians like President Obama and Mayor Michael Bloomberg calling for gun control while under armed protection.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Congress-Congressmen
Congressional Abdication on Foreign Policy
03-29-2013
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Daily Paul.com
Former Democratic Senator Jim Webb decries the fact that Congress has surrendered its foreign policy and warmaking powers to the office of the president:
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Opinion • Humor
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News, March 31, 2013 Edition
03-29-2013
John Semmens
Party Donors Warn of “Dire Consequences” for Those Who Let Obama Down
A handful of Democratic members of Congress were warned by the Party's big donors to get in line behind President Obama's push for gun-control legislation lest they face “dire c
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News Link • Bitcoin
Getting Started with Bitcoin, Part 2: Selecting a Wallet
03-29-2013
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Daily Paul.com
In Part 1: What is a Wallet?, I briefly explained the "Block Chain", Bitcoin's complete transaction log, and I'd like to start this article by explaining a little bit more about the Block Chain and why it's important to Bitcoin.
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
New coronavirus is potentially more deadly than SARS
03-29-2013
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http://www.rawstory.com, By David Ferguson
Researchers from the University of Hong Kong warned that a new coronavirus that has emerged from the Middle East has the potential to be deadlier than the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) virus, which kiled 774 people between 2002 and 2003.
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News Link • Drones
'Skynet' Drones Work Together for "Homeland Security"
03-29-2013
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Daily Paul.com
Professor Raffaello D'Andrea demonstrates the amazing capability of drones that can communicate with each other, technology he admits could be open to "abuse" and is "incredibly dangerous."
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News Link • Humor
e-mooning
03-29-2013
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Daily Paul.com
We all know those cute little computer symbols called 'emoticons,' where:
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Healthcare
Good Friday Health Care Options: Go Bare or Go Broke?
03-29-2013
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http://www.commondreams.org, by Donna Smith
In America, we take our pound of flesh and our profits wherever we may find them.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Poverty in the U.S.A: Nearly 50 Million Americans on Food Stamps
03-29-2013
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http://www.globalresearch.ca, By Kate Randall
US food stamp use swells to a record 47.8 million
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
The Trial of Hank Rearden (Atlas Shrugged 2 Court Scene)
03-29-2013
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Daily Paul.com
Here is the court scene in Atlas Shrugged Part 2 where Hank Rearden is tried in court for selling steel secretly behind the Fair Shares Law.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
Pentagon Gears Up For Global Cyber Warfare. China Accused of Cyber Espionage
03-29-2013
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http://www.globalresearch.ca, By Stop NATO
“Reuters found at least three papers on cyber-warfare on a document-sharing website that were co-authored by university faculty members and PLA researchers, ” whereas in most developed nations, “university professors in recent decades have been reluc
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News Link • Afghanistan
War: What is it Good For?
03-29-2013
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Daily Paul.com
The President of Afghanistan, the man we installed and the leader of a land that is a nation in name only recently accused the United States of colluding with the Taliban to keep the war going.
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News Link • Eugenics
Genetic Engineering, Eugenics and the Ideology of the Rich
03-29-2013
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http://www.globalresearch.ca, By Colin Todhunter
Whatever the publicly stated aims of the genetically modified organisms (GMOs) sector, and however terrible its impact is on health, the environment and cotton farmers in India, there is a much more sinister side to this industry.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Obama Administration
End the (March) Madness!!!!
03-28-2013
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http://www.youtube.com, NextNewsNetwork
While President Obama picks his NCAA brackets - he is also picking targets for his kill list - and the Tree of Liberty withers.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The Global Elite Are Very Clearly Telling Us That They Plan To Raid Our Bank Accounts
03-28-2013
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theeconomiccollapseblog.com
Don't be surprised when the global elite confiscate money from your bank account one day.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Police State
San Rafael man who punched CHP officer acquitted of battery, obstruction
03-28-2013
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Marin Independent Journal
His lawyer, Chief Deputy Public Defender David Brown, argued that Gonzalez thought he was defending his brother and a friend from excessive force by the CHP.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Marc Victor
The Attorney For Freedom Show 4
03-28-2013
The Attorney For Freedom Show with Marc Victor and Guests Attorney Jerry Schreck and good friends Mike Wasdin and the G-Man
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
Atlas Shrugged Part 3 Heads Into Production
03-28-2013
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Atlas Shrugged Movie
It's official - Atlas Shrugged Part III will begin shooting later this year with release scheduled for mid 2014.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Events: Arizona
Silver Circle Movie Tickets available now for the April 11th, 2013 showing at Pollack Tempe Cinemas
03-21-2013
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Silver Circle Movie
Why are gas prices are so high? Why is it getting harder to put food on the table? Some seek answers from government, but those who control the money control everything. Silver Circle is the story of our world after the worst economic collapse in US
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News Link • WAR: About that War
US Sends B-2s to South Korea for Military Drills
03-28-2013
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ABC News
In a show of force following weeks of North Korean bluster, the U.S. took the unprecedented step of announcing that two of its nuclear-capable B-2 bombers dropped munitions on a South Korean island as part of joint military drills.
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News Link • Syria
U.S. backed Syrian Rebel Group supported by Al-Qaeda Affiliates
03-27-2013
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According to Reuters and A.P. field reports and the New York Times, the United States support of rebels in Syria is directly benefiting the Al Nusra Front, which is allied with Al-Qaeda. In fact, Al Nusra has become the de facto leaders of the entire
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News Link • Syria
Syrian conflict’s impact is felt across border in Iraq
03-27-2013
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Washington Post
Syria’s civil war is increasingly threatening to destabilize neighboring Iraq, widening a sectarian divide in a nation still reeling from the messy aftermath of the U.S.-led invasion a decade ago.
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News Link • Welfare: Corporate
IMF: Governments need to end energy subsidies
03-27-2013
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Washington Post
Government subsidies of gasoline, electricity and other energy sources amount to about $1.9 trillion a year and should be ended or offset with taxes used to battle climate change and pay for social programs, the International Monetary Fund said
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News Link • Internet
Egypt: Naval forces capture 3 divers trying to cut undersea Internet cable
03-27-2013
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Washington Post
Egypt’s naval forces captured three scuba divers who were trying to cut an undersea Internet cable in the Mediterranean on Wednesday, a military spokesman said. Telecommunications executives meanwhile blamed a weeklong Internet slowdown on damage cau
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News Link • Surveillance
Little-known surveillance tool raises concerns by judges, privacy activists
03-27-2013
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Washington Post
Federal investigators routinely used a sophisticated surveillance system to scoop up data from cellphones and other wireless devices to track criminal suspects " but failed to detail the practice to judges authorizing the probes.
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News Link • Mexico
Vigilante group releases police, civilians it took hostage in Mexican city
03-27-2013
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http://www.globalpost.com, Agencia EFE
Tierra Colorada, Mexico, Mar 27 (EFE).- A vigilante group has released the 12 police officers and six civilians it took hostage in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero after cutting a deal with prosecutors, spokesmen for the grassroots organization
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News Link • Economy - International
Cyprus: Once Again, For Those Who Are Sleeping
03-27-2013
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http://market-ticker.org,
I know it's considered impolite to repeat yourself but you need to at times like this because the commentary on the Cyprus situation continues to miss the mark to the point that it appears to be intentional.
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News Link • Currencies
Petrodollar Collapse - World War 3 planned. Ben Swann and others explain
03-27-2013
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http://www.dailypaul.com, SuccessCouncil
Here is the Petrodollar situation explained in a few short minutes.
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