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Date Sent: 2013-09-03
Freedom's Phoenix AM Edition for Tuesday, September 3, 2013 |
Drug Agents Use Vast Phone Trove, Eclipsing N.S.A.’s
War Is the Health of the State -- The NYPD Tapes - by Graham
Rayman -- What Are the Real Foes? -- Obama Seeks Congressional Approval
For Strikes While Insisting He May Attack Regardless -- Bombing Syria Is An Act of War -- Grounded TV Marti plane a monument to the limits of American austerity -- Top-secret U.S. intelligence files show new levels of distrust of Pakistan -- Bubble Fusion Bubbles Up Again -- 7 Things You Need To Know About The NSA -- The Star-Studded Trailer For Ron Howard And Jay Z's Documentary 'Made In America'
-- In One Chart, Here's Why The Anti-War Movement Collapsed -- 46
Photos Of Life At A Japanese Internment Camp, Taken By Ansel Adams -- The U.S. Military Does Not Want To Fight For Al-Qaeda Christian Killers In Syria -- Sample Chapter From My Novel Expatriates --
WOW! Hillary Mann Leverett, A New Hero, School's Warmongers on MSNBC --
As Syria Distracts, Here’s What's Happening While No One Is Looking --
StormCloudsGathering: Could be the Most Important Video You Will Ever
Watch -- U.S. Secretary of State pictured dining with Assad and his wife
-- Obama Reveals His Dictatorship -- Germany’s Hitler-Era Homeschool Laws Still In (Brute) Force -- Obama, Congress and Syria -- Washington's Long History in Syria
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News Link • Surveillance
Drug Agents Use Vast Phone Trove, Eclipsing N.S.A.’s
09-02-2013
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New York Times
For at least 6 years, law enforcement officials working on a counternarcotics program have had routine access, using subpoenas, to an enormous AT&T database that contains the records of decades of Americans’ phone calls
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Religion: Believers
War Is the Health of the State
09-02-2013
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Lew Rockwell blog
“With Congress set to debate taking military action in Syria, the Arab American Association of New York is telling its community to expect increased surveillance of Syrian-Americans and Muslims. … An AP report further outlined the NYPD’s
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
The NYPD Tapes - by Graham Rayman
09-02-2013
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Simple Justice
Police Officer Schoolcraft had recorded more than 1000 hours of roll calls, locker room discussion and lectures inside Bed-Stuy’s 81st Precinct, and it was no longer what people thought or remembered, but the actual damning words of his superiors.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
What Are the Real Foes?
09-02-2013
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Lew Rockwell blog
Obama can make a strong case for having the domestic or constitutional authority to bomb places like Libya and Syria without congressional action. Although the Constitution hasn’t given him such power in foreign policy, the Supreme Court has.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Constitution
Obama Seeks Congressional Approval For Strikes While Insisting He May Attack Regardless
09-02-2013
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Jonathan Turley
There is a wonderful scene unfolding on Capitol Hill. In the past, President Obama insisted he alone decides what constitutes a war and when he needs a congressional declaration. It was a claim that was challenged in federal court when I
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Syria
Bombing Syria Is An Act of War
09-02-2013
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Lew Rockwell blog
Bombing Syria is an act of war, no matter what language Congress might devise to bomb and still avoid declaring war. Congress should debate the reasons for making or not making war against Syria, because that is what is involved in bombing Syria.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Philosophy: Libertarianism
The World Next Door
09-02-2013
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by L. Neil Smith (The Libertarian Enterprise)
There is a world next door. A world in which people look up at the sound of an engine in the sky or the sight of wings, and marvel, as they used to do, instead of wondering if a sinister machine has been sent to spy on them or kill them.
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Grounded TV Marti plane a monument to the limits of American austerity
09-02-2013
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Washington Post
At an airfield in rural Georgia, the U.S. government pays a contractor $6,600 a month for a plane that doesn’t fly. The plane is a 1960s turboprop with an odd array of antennas on its back end and the name of a Cuban national hero painted on its tail
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Top-secret U.S. intelligence files show new levels of distrust of Pakistan
09-02-2013
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Washington Post
The United States has ramped up its surveillance of Pakistan’s nuclear arms, cites previously undisclosed concerns about biological and chemical sites there, and details efforts to assess the loyalties of counterterrorism sources recruited by the CI
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science
Bubble Fusion Bubbles Up Again
09-02-2013
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arclein
The twelve-year-old "bubble fusion" saga reignited this week. Bubble fusion is the theory that nuclear fusion can be induced by rapidly collapsing bubbles in certain fluids. According to a new investigative report into Oak Ridge National Laboratory
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News Link • Africa: On the Map
Gaddafi's River
09-02-2013
The ‘rivers’ are a 4000-kilometer network of 4 meters diameter lined concrete pipes, buried below the desert sands to prevent evaporation. There are 1300 wells, 500,000 sections of pipe, 3700 kilometers of haul roads, and 250 million cubic meters of
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News Link • Science
Biorock
09-02-2013
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arclein
Accretion is very versatile since it can be powered by a large range of electrical sources including chargers, windmills, photovoltaic, and tidal current generators. Most areas where mineral accretion would be useful for reef restoration, shore prote
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News Link • Religion: Believers
Satsang and Spiritual Presence
09-02-2013
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arclein
At the end of his first visit to the Ashram, Brunton was sitting quietly while the sage was meditating. He felt a sense of awe building up inside him, as a powerful force started to fill the room, emanating from Ramana. Ramana opened his eyes and gaz
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robert klein
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News Link • Self-Help: Rational Living
Beware of “Fans” " many are indeed fanatics (referencing 2 good films “Misery” and “Antiviral”)
09-02-2013
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Christine Smith's blog
Fanaticism over anything, anyone, from celebrities to teams to beliefs is a serious mistake…think of all the celebrity fanatics, the team fanatics, the religious fanatics, the nationalistic and political fanatics...
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
The Star-Studded Trailer For Ron Howard And Jay Z's Documentary 'Made In America'
09-02-2013
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Business Insider
Sometimes music documentaries and concert performances do quite well on television while other times they come and go without making waves.
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News Link • Activism
In One Chart, Here's Why The Anti-War Movement Collapsed
09-02-2013
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Business Insider
There's been a lot of talk about the absence of a strong and visible anti-war movement, the way there was during the George W. Bush Presidency.
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News Link • American History
46 Photos Of Life At A Japanese Internment Camp, Taken By Ansel Adams
09-02-2013
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businessinsider.com
While America celebrates Victory over Japan Day on September 2, let's not forget the suffering of about 110,000 Japanese Americans who were forced to live in internment camps.
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News Link • Religion: Believers
The U.S. Military Does Not Want To Fight For Al-Qaeda Christian Killers In Syria
09-02-2013
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theeconomiccollapseblog.com
Why is the Obama administration so determined to have the U.S. military help al-Qaeda win the civil war in Syria?
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News Link • Books
Sample Chapter From My Novel Expatriates
09-02-2013
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Survivalblog.com
The following is another sample chapter from my upcoming novel Expatriates: A Novel of the Coming Global Collapse. Please wait until the release day (October 1st, 2013) to place your order.
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News Link • Obama Administration
As Syria Distracts, Here’s What's Happening While No One Is Looking
09-02-2013
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zerohedge.com
As everyone is now completely distracted with the looming prospect of yet another illegal war to be waged by the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize recipient, let’s look at a few other things going on while no one is looking.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
StormCloudsGathering: Could be the Most Important Video You Will Ever Watch
09-02-2013
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Daily Paul.com
Less than 14 minutes long, this video explains WHY we have seen and are seeing the war mongering in Iraq, Libya, Syria and Iran.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Judge states No-Fly list violates constitutional right to travel
09-02-2013
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thelibertybeat.com
Late Thursday night a federal court concluded that individuals placed on the No-Fly list are having their “constitutionally-protected liberty interest in traveling internationally by air” disrupted by placement on the controversial list.
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News Link • Foreign Policy
U.S. Secretary of State pictured dining with Assad and his wife
09-02-2013
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Prison Planet
This astonishing photograph shows U.S Secretary of State John Kerry having a cosy and intimate dinner with Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad.
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News Link • Bitcoin
Ex-Googler Gives the World a Better Bitcoin
09-02-2013
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http://www.wired.com, By Robert McMillan
Charles Lee was a software engineer at Google, spending his days hacking networking code for the search giant’s new-age operating system, ChromeOS. But in his spare time, he rewrote Bitcoin, the world’s most popular digital currency.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Weather News - Links - History
Awe-Inspiring Photos of Swirling Superstorms Belie Their Destructive Power
09-02-2013
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http://www.wired.com, By Jakob Schiller
Supercell thunderstorms are characterized by a cycling, cylindrical vortex of air that moves upward off the ground, which is also known as a mesocyclone.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
A/B Test: Comparing the Magnificent Spaceships of Orbital Sciences and SpaceX
09-02-2013
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http://www.wired.com
We have a space station in permanent orbit ... but not a lot of rockets that can get there.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Technology: Software
This App Can Make Anyone A Video Game Designer
09-02-2013
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http://www.popsci.com, By Corinne Iozzio
Draw the design for a level on graph paper, and Pixel Press can translate it into a real, playable game
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama, Congress and Syria
09-02-2013
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http://www.theguardian.com, Glenn Greenwald
The president is celebrated for seeking a vote on his latest war even as his aides make clear it has no binding effect
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Syria
Washington's Long History in Syria
09-02-2013
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http://nationalinterest.org, Ernesto J. Sanchez
As they consider further intervention in Syria, Washington policymakers should be aware of the history of previous U.S. involvement there.
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Robert Lee
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Opinion • Syria
Ray McGovern: My Take
An Appeal to Gen. Dempsey on Syria
09-02-2013
Ray McGovern
Gen. Martin Dempsey, Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman, has spoken soberly about the dangers from any military strike on Syria, but press reports indicate President Obama is still set on launching cruise missiles in the coming days, an action that form
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Ron Paul: Will Congress Endorse Obama's War Plans? Does it Matter?
09-01-2013
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Ron Paul's Texas Straight Talk
The president made it clear Congressional authorization is superfluous, asserting falsely he has the authority to act on his own without Congress. That Congress allows itself to be treated as window dressing by the imperial president is
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
I Believe I Can Fly
09-01-2013
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Simple Justice
It had been understood Americans had a constitutional right to travel their nation freely without hindrance, but as the government argued, that didn’t mean Americans were entitled to use whatever mode of transportation they wanted.
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News Link • Syria
Why Military Action Against Syria Shouldn’t Even Be Considered
09-01-2013
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Lew Rockwell blog
It is another libertarian simple solution to a problem that liberals, conservatives, progressives, moderates, Republicans, and Democrats make complex: No matter what the government of country x does to its citizens, the USA should not intervene
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News Link • Drug War
Mass. reeling from drug lab scandal a year later
09-01-2013
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AP
Dookhan stands accused of faking test results, tampering with evidence and routinely ignoring testing protocols. With thousands of challenges making their way through the court system, many believe it will be years before the cases are cleared.
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Blue Light Special
09-01-2013
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Simple Justice
Which means that in some lower trial court there was a judge " a fully-grown adult who I assume is mentally competent to do things like feeding himself without injury and using toilet facilities without soiling his clothes " who actually ruled
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News Link • TAXES: State
Say What? Lobbyists Are Getting Public Pensions in Some States
09-01-2013
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Jonathan Turley
Stephen Acquario is a lobbyist who spends his time in New York’s State House. He is the executive director and counsel of the New York State Association of Counties. He earns $204,000 a year. Even though he is NOT a government employee
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News Link • Housing
Another Foreclosure Bungled: West Virginia this time
09-01-2013
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Jonathan Turley
Schoolteacher Nikki Bailey came home from visiting a sick friend in the hospital, only to find a work crew removing the last few pieces of her belongings from her house. The workers told her they were sent by a bank to clean out her house for foreclo
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News Link • Syria
Was A Rogue Syrian Officer Responsible For Chemical Weapons Attack?
09-01-2013
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Jonathan Turley
That intelligence consisted of captured phone call between an official of the Syrian Ministry of Defense and the leader of a chemical weapons unit. The phone calls were described as panicky with the official demanding answers.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Government
Government agencies at all levels selling personal data to marketers
09-01-2013
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naturalnews.com
How many times have you gone to your mailbox and found it stuffed with useless junk mail? If you're like most Americans, you find that happens a lot.
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News Link • Japan - Earthquake Tsunami Radiation
Fukushima situation worsening with discovery of water storage tank leaking .....
09-01-2013
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naturalnews.com
Following recent reports about some of the plant's water filters being taken offline due to major corrosion problems, the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power facility in Japan is now experiencing considerable issues .....
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News Link • Syria
France will not attack Syria alone, PM to meet parliament leaders
09-01-2013
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Reuters
France will not launch an assault on Syria alone and will wait for U.S. Congress to decide on whether to punish President Assad's government for a gas attack that killed hundreds of civilians, Interior Minister Manuel Valls said as pressure mounted
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News Link • Syria
Saudi Prince Bandar behind chemical attack in Syria: Report
09-01-2013
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Press TV
The article co-authored by a veteran AP reporter, said interviews with doctors, residents, anti-government forces and their families in Ghouta suggest the terrorists in question received chemical weapons via Saudi spymaster Saudi Arabia's intelligenc
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News Link • Environment
South American countries gripped by snow: thousands of people in several countries are affected
08-30-2013
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BBC
The cold spell has killed at least seven people in Peru, four in Bolivia and two in Paraguay. In the latter, the authorities blamed the weather for the death of more than 5,000 cattle too. Thousands of llamas and alpacas have died in the cold weather
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Drug War
Feds Support Nullification of Cannabis Laws
9-1-2013
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Free Press Publications
Voters in Colorado and Washington approved measures last November that would tax and regulate cannabis. On August 29, the Department of Justice announced, “Based on assurances that those states will impose an appropriately strict regulatory system, t
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News Link • Syria
Reid: Senate to hold hearings on Syria next week (Video)
09-01-2013
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The Hill
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) late Saturday said the Senate next week will debate President Obama’s request for authorization for military strikes in Syria in retaliation for alleged chemical weapons use.
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News Link • MEDIA NEWS REFERENCES
U.S. Bank Legal Bills Exceed $100 Billion
08-31-2013
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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-08-28/u-s-bank-
The six biggest U.S. banks, led by JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) and Bank of America Corp., have piled up $103 billion in legal costs since the financial crisis, more than all dividends paid to shareholders in the past five years. That’s the amount allo
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Mike Brosnahan
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News Link • Media: Internet
This Is How Facebook Will Die
08-31-2013
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www.adrants.com
"And I would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for those meddling kids."
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • Healthcare
Best Ever Obamacare Ad - Video
08-31-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
A short video parody of the Obamacare propaganda set in the style of an informational video for recruitment.
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Chris Menke
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Who Benefits From A War Between The United States And Syria?
08-31-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Someone wants to get the United States into a war with Syria very, very badly. Cui bono is an old Latin phrase that is still commonly used, and it roughly means “to whose benefit?” The key to figuring out who is really behind the push for war is to
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