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Date Sent: 2013-06-25
Freedom's Phoenix PM Edition for Tuesday, June 25, 2013 |
Protestors Defy Open Carry Ban & Openly Carry Firearms During Civil Disobedience Protest
Former border activist arrested on suspicion of child molestation --
Full remote control of ALL modern U.S. market cars PROVEN -- LIVING THE
WIRED LIFE "INVENTOR" -- How to shield all your electronic
communications from the NSA -- Before his death, father of ADHD admitted it was a fictitious disease -- Washington rejects restriction on honeybee-killing garden pesticide -- Trust us: A brief history of government spying -- Ron Finley: A guerilla gardener in South Central LA -- Can Guerrilla
Gardening Save The World? -- GLPVC'S TheRawFeedLive - ROUND TABLE -
Tuesday, June 25 at 11 PM EST **NSA Spying - Snowden* -- Heather
Donahue: 10 Reasons I Ditched the City and Moved to the Country -- Tragedy & Hope Made Easy - Chapter 5; America: Police State Ruthlessness Writ Large -- Brazilians Demand Social Justice
George Zimmerman Trial Livestream link
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News Link • Gun Rights
Protestors Defy Open Carry Ban & Openly Carry Firearms During Civil Disobedience Protest
06-25-2013
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secretsofthefed.com
According to a report on The Blaze, protestors in Erie, PA gathered to defy the city’s local ordinance which bans carrying firearms openly in public.
Many of the protestors carried slung rifles and some carried holstered handguns.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Immigration
Former border activist arrested on suspicion of child molestation
06-25-2013
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Arizona Republic
Christopher Allen Simcox, 52, who founded the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps in 2005, was booked into a Maricopa County jail on suspicion of child molestation, attempted child molestation and sexual exploitation of a minor.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • China
Threat of a Declining China
06-25-2013
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arclein
will also be easy to put the Chinese economy on a war footing. China’s central planning institutions are well suited to the mobilization of resources for defense industries. A military buildup would also help to alleviate excess capacity problems in
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News Link • China
China Secures Russian Oil
06-25-2013
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arclein
Russia has been looking for new markets for its energy exports because of shrinking demand in Europe, its traditional market, said Liao Na, the vice-president of energy consultancy ICIS C1 Energy.
"The seller and the buyer both have strong willi
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News Link • Transportation
Full remote control of ALL modern U.S. market cars PROVEN
06-25-2013
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secretsofthefed.com
A team of hackers from the Department of Computer Science at the University of Washington conducted a study in 2010 which concluded that all cars equipped with antilock brakes sold in the U.S. can be hacked.....
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Geology
Gem Genesis Decoded
06-25-2013
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arclein
If rocks contain jade, the scientists can be fairly sure those rocks are a vestige of an ocean buried underground. Rubies, on the other hand, appear in places where mountains formed from continental collisions, even if those mountains were eroded awa
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News Link • Agriculture
Ontario Bee Die off Coincident With Corn Planting
06-25-2013
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arclein
he neonicotinoid pesticides are coating corn seed and with the use of new air seeders, are blowing the pesticide dust into the air when planted. The death of millions of pollinators was looked at by American Purdue University. They found that, “Bees
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News Link • MEDIA NEWS REFERENCES
BUSTED: Bankers Caught On Tape, Joking About Bailout, And How They'd Never Pay It Back
06/25/13
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Once again, we have more embarrassing conversations between bankers ...
The Irish Independent, a Dublin-based newspaper, has uncovered tapes of an internal phone conversation from September 2008 between two executives at Anglo Irish Bank during i
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Mike Brosnahan
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
These Crazy Guns Shoot Pewter, Plastic, and Paper Mache
06-25-2013
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Wired.com
You can take pretty much any kid to an arcade, drop a few quarters into whatever Resident Evil knockoff you find there, put the fluorescent blue Uzi in their tiny little hands, and they’ll know what to do.
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News Link • Animals and Pets
Dolphin Intimacy and Other Strange Tales of Human-Animal Interactions
06-25-2013
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Wired.com
In his new book, Wild Ones: A Sometimes Dismaying, Weirdly Reassuring Story About Looking at People Looking at Animals in America, journalist Jon Mooallem uses the polar bear, the whooping crane, and a species of butterfly to tell the story of our ta
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News Link • Inventions
LIVING THE WIRED LIFE "INVENTOR"
06-25-2013
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Wired.com
It’s just after 10 on a Thursday morning and Chip Yates " whose energy is exceeded only by his imagination " is on his fourth errand of the day. He’s in a small fabrication shop in a nondescript industrial park, with a few minutes to kill.
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News Link • How To
How to shield all your electronic communications from the NSA
06-25-2013
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naturalnews.com
In the wake of recent revelations that the National Security Agency (NSA) and other government snoops are monitoring the electronic communications of U.S. citizens, millions of us wanted to know what, if anything, we could do to protect our email, ce
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Before his death, father of ADHD admitted it was a fictitious disease
06-25-2013
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naturalnews.com
If you or someone you know has a child that has been diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), chances are the child is actually just fine.
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News Link • Agriculture
Washington rejects restriction on honeybee-killing garden pesticide
06-25-2013
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naturalnews.com
Faceless, nameless bureaucrats in Washington, D.C., are once again demonstrating their ignorance of an issue by refusing to take a necessary action that literally could have an impact on the health and well-being of millions of Americans.
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News Link • Robots and Artificial Intelligence
Caesar The Robot Can See And Hear You | Video
06-25-2013
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technewsdaily.com
Jared Frank and other engineering students at NYU-Poly have created Caesar, a humanoid robot built with off the shelf and 3D printed parts and programmed using open source software with the intent of helping people with limited mobility.
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News Link • Climate Change
Warming Earth May Release Permafrost Carbon
06-25-2013
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livescience.com
Arctic-permafrost holds more carbon than all fossil-fuel emissions since record-keeping began in 1850. NASA's Carbon in Arctic Reservoir's Vulnerability Experiment (CARVE) monitors melting which could expose carbon, accelerating global warming.
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News Link • Seriously?
Woman Drinks Only Soda for 16 Years, Suffers Heart Problems
06-25-2013
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livescience.com
A 31-year old woman's heart problems and fainting might have had something to do with the fact that she drank only soda for about half her life, according to a report of her case.
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News Link • Entertainment: Outdoor Recreation
Can Nerf's New Super Soaker Out-Douse The Competition?
06-25-2013
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popsci.com
A new design makes for lighter, more easily refilled guns, Nerf says. But is that enough for Super Soaker to remain king of the backyard?
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Agriculture
Ron Finley: A guerilla gardener in South Central LA
06-25-2013
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ted.com
Ron Finley plants vegetable gardens in South Central LA -- in abandoned lots, traffic medians, along the curbs. Why? For fun, for defiance, for beauty and to offer some alternative to fast food in a community where "the drive-thrus are killing more p
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Activism
Can Guerrilla Gardening Save The World?
06-25-2013
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wakeup-world.com
“If kids grow kale, they eat kale,” Ron Finley, a famed guerrilla gardener, asserts during his 2013 TED talk.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Food Recipes - Long Term Storage Foods
Healthy Breakfast Recipe: A Nut Berry Quinoa Breakfast
06-25-2013
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wakeup-world.com
Breakfast is my favourite meal, and I never, ever, go without it. My general rule is to eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Nutrition
10 Things the Processed Food Industry Doesn’t Want You to Know
06-25-2013
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wakeup-world.com
Okay, they taste good… and they’re easy. In fact, they’re everywhere you look.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Whistleblowers
GLPVC'S TheRawFeedLive - ROUND TABLE - Tuesday, June 25 at 11 PM EST **NSA Spying - Snowden*
06-25-2013
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http://therawfeedlive.com
Concerns that the NSA Leaker Edward Snowden is not who he Purports to be
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News Link • Inspiration
Heather Donahue: 10 Reasons I Ditched the City and Moved to the Country
06-25-2013
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Yahoo.HealthyLiving
I'm Heather Donahue, previously known as The Girl from the Blair Witch Project. I burnt up my LA life out in the desert, (headshots, resumes, lingerie, lint--a flaming rainbow) and moved up here.
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • New World Order
Tragedy & Hope Made Easy - Chapter 5
06-25-2013
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JoePlummer.com
So far we’ve covered how the network uses money to control governments, businesses and trusted institutions. We’ve touched on how it developed ingenious ways to control other people’s financial resources; their savings accounts, their insurance payme
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Reference Link • Whistleblowers
Don’t Stand Too Close to These People
www.thecommonsenseshow.com
We used to honor whistle-blowers as the media fulfilled its mission to be the watchman on the wall of tyranny. Increasingly, these watchmen are finding themselves watched and are often targeted for elimination, or at least they meet a suspicious and
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Reference Link • Emmigration
Should We Stay Or Should We Go?
www.thecommonsenseshow.com
Are you tired of living under relative tyranny where every email is read, every phone call is listened to and your every movement is tracked and dissident journalists are harassed and even murdered by federal agencies such as the rogue NSA, CIA and I
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News Link • Government
Government Snooping
06-22-2013
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arclein
After the government relaxed the rules about the type of information they could make public, Microsoft and Facebook released data combining national security requests and criminal investigations. But Google and Twitter have so far declined to do so u
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News Link • Police State
Video: Official Says Complaining About Tap Water is Act of Terrorism
06-22-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Concerned about the high levels of arsenic in your water, or perhaps the known levels of radioactive contamination? Well you must be a terrorist, according to the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation (TDEC) and Homeland Security, who
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Immigration
IRS Sent $46,378,040 in Refunds to 23,994 ‘Unauthorized’ Aliens at 1 Atlanta Address
06-22-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
(CNSNews.com) " The Internal Revenue Service sent 23,994 tax refunds worth a combined $46,378,040 to “unauthorized” alien workers who all used the same address in Atlanta, Ga., in 2011, according to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administrati
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Surveillance
Ben Swann " NSA’s Criminal Activity (Video)
06-22-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Ben Swann Full Disclosure is asking the questions the rest of the media is ignoring. Even by the overreaching standards of the Patriot Act, Ben Swann demonstrates how the NSA’s Prism program is clearly illegal.
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News Link • Surveillance
‘Insider Threat’ program forces federal employees to spy on coworkers
06-22-2013
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PressTV
The program spans all federal agencies and mandates employees and their superiors to report behaviors associated with someone who might leak sensitive government information.
Those who fail to expose “high-risk persons” face penalties that include c
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Judge: No audio testimony in Zimmerman trial
06-22-2013
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AP
The judge in the murder trial of George Zimmerman said Friday that prosecution audio experts who point to Trayvon Martin as screaming on a 911 calls moments before he was killed won't be allowed to testify at trial.
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News Link • Surveillance
British spy agency sharing worldwide phone, Internet records with NSA
06-21-2013
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Lindsey Boerma, CBS News
Britain's spy agency GCHQ has surreptitiously tapped into vast volumes of data drawn from the fiber-optic cables that carry the world's phone calls and Internet traffic, and is sharing with its U.S. counterpart - the National Security Agency (NSA) -
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Federal judges order California to free 9,600 inmates
06-21-2013
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Los Angeles Times
A trio of federal judges ordered Gov. Jerry Brown to immediately begin freeing state inmates and waived state laws to allow early releases, threatening the governor with contempt if he does not comply.
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Lawyers challenge U.S. 'no fly' list in federal court in Oregon
06-21-2013
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Reuters
A federal judge in Oregon grilled Justice Department lawyers over the government's secretive "no-fly" list, questioning whether those banned from commercial air travel for suspected links to terrorism have any realistic avenue for appeal.
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News Link • European Union
Europe unable to break impasse on who pays when banks fail
06-21-2013
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The Register
Europe failed to agree on how to share the cost of bank collapses on Saturday, as Germany resisted attempts by France to water down rules designed to spare taxpayers in future crises.
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News Link • Internet
Facebook admits year-long data breach exposed 6 million users
06-21-2013
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Reuters
Facebook Inc has inadvertently exposed 6 million users' phone numbers and email addresses to unauthorized viewers over the past year, the world's largest social networking company disclosed late Friday.
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News Link • Whistleblowers
U.S. charges Edward Snowden with espionage in leaks about NSA surveillance programs
06-21-2013
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Washington Post
Federal prosecutors filed a criminal complaint against Edward Snowden, and the US has asked Hong Kong to detain him on a provisional arrest warrant, Snowden was charged with espionage, theft and conversion of government property
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News Link • States' Rights
Federal nullification efforts mounting in states
06-21-2013
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AP
Imagine the scenario: A federal agent attempts to arrest someone for illegally selling a machine gun. Instead, the federal agent is arrested - charged in a state court with the crime of enforcing federal gun laws.
Farfetched? Not as much as you mi
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News Link • China
Chen Guangcheng Spyware Row: Blind Chinese Dissident May Have Been Spied On During NYU Tenure
06-21-2013
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Reuters
Like nearly everything surrounding Chen these days, the existence of the spyware is in dispute, and only adds to the public recriminations there have been between NYU and Chen's supporters over events surrounding the end of his fellowship.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
What Cop T-Shirts Tell Us About Police Culture
06-21-2013
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by Radley Balko (Huffington Post)
The quote was printed on t-shirts worn by NYPD's infamous Street Crimes Unit, which was disbanded after shooting unarmed Amadou Diallo 41 times as he reached for his wallet. 2 NYPD police commissioners used the phrase "hunter of men" to
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News Link • Drug War
In Florida, Selling a Pot Pipe Is a Felony But Illegally Pushing Millions of OxyContin Is a Fine
06-21-2013
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Huffington Post
Florida has a massive problem with its "OxyContin Express". The state is home to more "pill mills" where addicts get their "hillbilly heroin" than any other. Walgreens, the national pharmacy chain, has been under DEA investigation for distribution.
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News Link • Police State
Blood, spit and cops: Nationwide drug roadblocks raise eyebrows
06-21-2013
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CNN (video)
The roadblocks went up on a Friday at several points in two Alabama towns, about 40 miles on either side of Birmingham.
For the next two days, off-duty sheriff's deputies in St. Clair County, to the east, and Bibb County, to the southwest, flagge
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
How Government Uses Accounting Tricks To Hide The Student-Loan Swindle
06-21-2013
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Forbes
With interest rates on federal student loans set to double on July 1, Congress is considering legislation to prevent the increase. But there’s a problem"no one seems to know how much the student loan program costs in the first place.
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News Link • General Opinion
Personal Appeal from Christine Smith
06-21-2013
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Christine Smith's blog
I am asking every one of you who has valued my work/writings over the years to please consider my appeal.
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News Link • Syria
The Awakening Sunni Giant
05-21-2013
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Michael Weiss Now. Lebanon
Saudi Arabia is dead-serious about ending the Assad regime.
Last Friday, King Abdullah cut short his summer vacation in Morocco and flew back to Riyadh not only to meet with his national security advisors but to coordinate a new strategy for winni
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Opinion • Humor
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News, June 23, 2013 Edition
06-21-2013
John Semmens
Congressman Demands “More Balanced” Campaign against Terrorism
Representative Jim McDermott (D-Wash) directed pointed criticism at the FBI's focus on Islamic terrorists. His criticism was sparked by a bus ad that featured photos of 16 suspected te
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