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Date Sent: 2013-09-05
Freedom's Phoenix AM Edition for Thursday, September 5, 2013 |
Russia Has Equipped Syria With Their Most Advanced Anti-Ship Missiles
RFK, Jr. Denies Lone Gunman -- Did the Germans Catch the NSA Spying on Windows Users? -- JUST IN: CIA Analyst Exposes Syrian War Lobbyists - Michael Scheuer -- Is The United States Going To Go To War With Syria Over A Natural Gas Pipeline? -- Southern California Police Doing Damage Control After Horrific Beating, Tasing Of Man -- Montana Police Dog Attacks Man Working Late At Restaurant . . . -- Michael LaPaglia and the Fickle Finger of Fate -- Real Nobel Peace Prize Winner Tells Us About Her Visit To Syria -- An Update In The Story Of Ann Colomb -- Massachusetts Cop Threatens to Smash Camera into Man’s Face -- Ron Paul: Syria intervention going to 'cause more trouble' -- Family Finds Sunken Gold Treasure Worth $300,000 Near Florida Coast -- Here's What Happened The Last Few Times The US Bombed Countries To Teach Them A Lesson --
Forget 'Saudi America' Here Comes 'Qatari America' -- Crook Learns The
Hard Way Not To Pull A Gun On 30-Year Army Vet -- Welcome to
LampoonTheSystem.com! -- Ron Paul Gets Cut Off By CNN -- Russia Boosts Mediterranean Flotilla as U.S. Weighs Syria Strike -- Oliver Stone Slams Push Toward Intervention In Syria -- Syria: Conservative Icons Put “Anti-War” Left to Shame -- Kerry Won’t Rule Out Ground Troops in Syria -- More Americans are using marijuana -- Northern California County Board Votes For Secession From State -- North Carolina Republicans will aim to ax income tax --
Obama: I didn’t draw the red line on Syria, world did -- We all thought
Libya had moved on – it has, but into lawlessness and ruin -- ‘I’m A Survivor. I WILL Be Ready’ – The Well Armed Woman’s Survival Stories
AZ: AZ Breakfast Club this Sat, Sept 7th - NEW LOCATION!! - Bill
Johnson's Big Apple 19th Ave/Bell
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News Link • Syria
Russia Has Equipped Syria With Their Most Advanced Anti-Ship Missiles
09-04-2013
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By Michael Snyder
Russia has sold Syria highly advanced rocket launchers, anti-aircraft missiles and anti-ship missiles.
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Opinion • Conspiracies
RFK, Jr. Denies Lone Gunman
09-04-2013
Mike Renzulli
It will be fifty years this November that President John Fitzgerald Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas and already news reports are surfacing that conspiracy theorists are looking to cash in.
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News Link • Surveillance
Did the Germans Catch the NSA Spying on Windows Users?
09-04-2013
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http://www.technewsdaily.com, Paul Wagenseil
Is the National Security Agency using Microsoft's Trusted Computing initiative to spy on PC users?
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Should You Buy MakerBot's $1,400 Digitizer 3D Scanner?
09-04-2013
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http://www.technewsdaily.com,
Geek rockstar Bre Pettis first wowed crowds with his upcoming 3D scanning device in March at the South by Southwest Interactive Festival in Austin. But it was no more than a tease " a homemade-looking gizmo that appeared to work, but for which he pro
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
If You Send Your Kid to a Public School, You’re a Bad Parent
09-04-2013
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http://therightstuff.biz, Ludwig L. Louthwaite
Modern liberals, so quick to insist that people are the products of their environment, spectacularly fail at actually incorporating such a claim into their policy prescriptions.
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News Link • Syria
JUST IN: CIA Analyst Exposes Syrian War Lobbyists - Michael Scheuer #N3
09-04-2013
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http://www.youtube.com, NextNewsNetwork
The standoff in Syria could quickly ignite into a larger conflict. The war has already killed over 100,000 people, and forced over six million people from their homes.
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News Link • General Opinion
Adam Spencer: Why I fell in love with monster prime numbers
09-04-2013
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http://www.ted.com
They're millions of digits long, and it takes an army of mathematicians and machines to hunt them down -- what's not to love about monster primes?
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Hands-On With Ouya, the Android Gaming Console
09-04-2013
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http://www.popularmechanics.com, By Darren Orf
No bigger than a Rubik's Cube, the Ouya (pronounced oo-yah) is a new addition to the console market that brings Android gaming to your television. Does it deliver enough digital delight with its double-digit price tag ($99) to compete with Sony, Micr
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Attack ‘Stand Your Ground’, turn out the black vote
09-04-2013
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http://www.vinsuprynowicz.com
So now a unanimous citizen jury has agreed with Sanford, Fla. police chief Bill Lee (fired for resisting political lynch mobs and refusing to file baseless charges " http://tinyurl.com/l5bch6w) and the state prosecutor who first investigated neighbor
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News Link • Syria
Is The United States Going To Go To War With Syria Over A Natural Gas Pipeline?
09-04-2013
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By Michael Snyder
Why has the little nation of Qatar spent 3 billion dollars to support the rebels in Syria?
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News Link • Inventions
New fog harvesting tech from MIT brings water to deserts
09-04-2013
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http://www.dvice.com, Evan Ackerman
Deserts may not have a lot of water in forms that are easy to access (like in rivers or lakes or aquifers), but that doesn't necessarily mean that there isn't a lot of water around somewhere.
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Sony's lens-shaped cameras works with any smartphone
09-04-2013
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http://www.dvice.com, Raymond Wong
Today's smartphone cameras are pretty great. The iPhone 5, HTC One and Nokia Lumia 1020 are three smartphones with top-notch cameras. Sony wants to augment smartphones and give them even better image sensors with a wild new wireless lens-shaped camer
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News Link • Entertainment: Games
Get into the game with PrioVR, a full-body VR suit
09-04-2013
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http://www.dvice.com, Colin Druce-McFadden
Leaps and bounds have been made in VR gaming recently. Sparked by the success of the Oculus Rift, a number of VR gaming controllers and headsets have begun development.
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News Link • China
China's Unspoken "Catastrophe"
09-04-2013
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
China's Unspoken "Catastrophe" - 11.6% Of The Population, Or 114 Million, Have Diabetes: More Than The US
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News Link • Syria
Kerry, Dempsey And Hagel Move "Syria Pitch" To 'The House' - Live Webcast
09-04-2013
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
Yesterday, it was the Senate committee on foreign relations, today it is the House committee on foreign affairs' turn.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Southern California Police Doing Damage Control After Horrific Beating, Tasing Of Man
09-04-2013
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Photography Is Not a Crime
Long Beach police said they had no choice but to repeatedly strike a man on the ground with a baton because he was kicking them. But the video shows he was merely trying to block their vicious baton blows with his leg.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Montana Police Dog Attacks Man Working Late At Restaurant . . .
09-04-2013
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Jonathan Turley
Mark Demaline, who cooks at the Park Place Tavern, was attacked late at night in his workplace when police found a door unlocked after hours and sent in a police dog named Bobi. What is most astonishing is not just the lack of an apology by
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Michael LaPaglia and the Fickle Finger of Fate
09-04-2013
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Simple Justice
An Oak Ridge physician named in a federal lawsuit over an invasive rectal examination has been arrested on drugs and weapons charges following a domestic dispute at his Knoxville home.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
New “Mechanophore” Plastic That Actually Gets Stronger Under Pressure
09-04-2013
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Jonathan Turley
Invented a plastic that actually gets stronger when it is stressed. That’s right. As mechanical force or pressure is add, it gets stronger " a breakthrough that could transform material for cellphones, medical devices, prosthetic limbs etc.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Real Nobel Peace Prize Winner Tells Us About Her Visit To Syria
09-04-2013
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Lew Rockwell blog
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Mairead Maguire tells of her visit to Syria. The people the US are funding are violent groups and do not want peace in Syria. Syria is being used as a proxy war by the U.S., Great Britain, Saudi Arabia and Qatar.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
An Update In The Story Of Ann Colomb
09-04-2013
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by Radley Balko (Huffington Post)
The family says they had been routinely harassed for years by local law enforcement. This harassment seemed to begin when the light-skinned Colomb boys began dating white girls, including the daughter of a local deputy....
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Massachusetts Cop Threatens to Smash Camera into Man’s Face
09-04-2013
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Photography Is Not a Crime
A Massachusetts cop threatened to smash a camera into a man’s face if he dared take one more photograph of her.
Instead, he started video recording her.
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Ron Paul: Syria intervention going to 'cause more trouble'
09-04-2013
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FOX News
All right, well, it leaves me speechless, but it does not leave Ron Paul speechless, who joins me, watching these hearings very, very closely. And, Congressman, right now, we're told that if things were to be voted on now, it would be
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
The First Poster For 'Transformers 4' Gives A Hint At The New Villain
09-04-2013
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Business Insider
Yesterday, Paramount revealed the name of the next "Transformers" film along with a teaser poster on Yahoo! Movies.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
U.S. Pay-TV Providers Lost 366,000 Subs in Q2: SNL Kagan
09-04-2013
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multichannel.com
Cable Operators Have Shed 1.8 Million Video Subs Over 12-Month Period
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News Link • Underwater Exploration and Living
Family Finds Sunken Gold Treasure Worth $300,000 Near Florida Coast
09-04-2013
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Business Insider
A Florida family who spends their time together hunting for treasure struck it rich over the weekend, hauling an estimated $300,000 worth of gold from an historic wreckage in the Atlantic Ocean.
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News Link • Entertainment: Television (TV)
New Apple TV Could Be Announced In September
09-04-2013
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Huffington Post
There's less than a week left until Apple's big event on Sept. 10. Everyone is expecting Apple to launch a new line (or lines) of iPhones, but on Tuesday, rumors began to fly about another potential announcement this month: a new Apple TV.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Here's What Happened The Last Few Times The US Bombed Countries To Teach Them A Lesson
09-04-2013
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Business Insider
President Barack Obama's national security team is trying to make the case to skeptical U.S. lawmakers for a limited strike against the Syrian government over its alleged use of chemical weapons on August 21.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Energy
Forget 'Saudi America' " Here Comes 'Qatari America'
09-04-2013
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Business Insider
Since 1997, the Arab state of Qatar has dominated the liquefied natural gas market, and today holds the title of world's largest supplier of the fuel.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Self-Defense
Crook Learns The Hard Way Not To Pull A Gun On 30-Year Army Vet
09-04-2013
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Business Insider
Bad idea: holding up a store clerk who happens to be proficient in firearms.
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News Link • Bioterrorism
Beware the Changing Face of Genetic Modification
09-04-2013
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Farm Wars
DNA2New genetic engineering techniques such as oligonucleotide-directed mutagenesis may bypass already flimsy GM regulations.
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News Link • Books
Welcome to LampoonTheSystem.com!
09-04-2013
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lampoonthesystem.com
Are you fed up with Government and its interference in your life? Eager to do something about it? Lampoon The System is a political satire site...
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
Ron Paul Gets Cut Off By CNN
09-04-2013
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Prison Planet
Ron Paul experiences ‘technical difficulties’ with his satellite connection while on CNN’s The Situation Room discussing possible US intervention in Syria.
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
John Stuart found guilty.
09-04-2013
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http://kpho.membercenter.worldnow.com/story/233302
Police documents show Beasley then got out of his car and went up to Stuart.
Stuart claims he shot Beasley in self-defense.
The case against Stuart encountered lengthy delays. Multiple defense attorneys were appointed and later withdrew. Stuart,
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Mike Brosnahan
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Russia Boosts Mediterranean Flotilla as U.S. Weighs Syria Strike
09-04-2013
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Prison Planet
Russia is sending three more ships to the east Mediterranean to bolster its fleet there as a U.S. Senate panel will consider President Barack Obama’s request for authority to conduct a military strike on Syria.
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News Link • Syria
Oliver Stone Slams Push Toward Intervention In Syria
09-04-2013
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Prison Planet
“This is not a real debate in America"any more than when we dropped the nukes on Japan.”
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News Link • Syria
Syria: Conservative Icons Put “Anti-War” Left to Shame
09-04-2013
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Prison Planet
Drudge, Buchanan, Rand Paul & Justin Amash highlight hypocrisy of Obama supporters
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News Link • Internet
Intel’s Laser Chips Could Make Data Centers Run Better
09-04-2013
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Technologyreview.com
Silicon chips with optical technology allow a new form of superfast data connection.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Syria
Kerry Won’t Rule Out Ground Troops in Syria
09-04-2013
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antiwar.com
Insists US Won't Remove Any Option From the Table
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
More Americans are using marijuana
09-04-2013
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usatoday.com
Nearly 24 million Americans, about 9.2% of the population, use illicit drugs, and marijuana use is steadily increasing
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News Link • Secession
Northern California County Board Votes For Secession From State
-04-2013
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sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com
A far Northern California county where residents have complained they lack representation at the state capitol wants to separate from California.
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News Link • TAXES: State
North Carolina Republicans will aim to ax income tax
09-04-2013
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Washington Post
At the moment, seven states across the country don’t levy a tax on income, and North Carolina Republicans want to make it eight, according to a powerful member of the state legislature.
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama: I didn’t draw the red line on Syria, world did
09-04-2013
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mcclatchydc.com
President Barack Obama on Wednesday declared the world’s credibility “is on the line” when it comes to punishing Syrian President Bashar Assad for his regime’s purported use of chemical weapons.
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News Link • Libya
Special report: We all thought Libya had moved on " it has, but into lawlessness and ruin
09-04-2013
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independent.co.uk
Libya has plunged unnoticed into its worst political and economic crisis since the defeat of Gaddafi
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Vaccines and Vaccinations
Gearing Up for the Flu Season
09-04-2013
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activistpost.com
It’s getting to be that time again when advertising campaigns will begin to persuade you to take flu shots in order to prevent contracting influenza.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Self-Defense
‘I’m A Survivor. I WILL Be Ready’ " The Well Armed Woman’s Survival Stories
09-04-2013
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Lewrockwell.com
I lived just on the edge of downtown Fort Worth Texas. I was the manager of 3 apartment houses and lived in one of them.
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News Link • Activism
CODEPINK protester crashes Senate hearing on Syria: ‘The American people do not want this’
09-03-2013
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Rawstory
CODEPINK co-founder and anti-war activist Medea Benjamin interrupted a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on a U.S. military strike in Syria, prompting a response from Secretary of State John Kerry after she was ejected from
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News Link • Syria
Pelosi: Willing to "Protect" Syrian Children To Death
09-03-2013
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by William N. Grigg (Pro Liberate)
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi recently deployed the “It’s for the children” trope in a debate that she had " and lost " with her 5-year-old grandson over the impending war with Syria. Since the child has not yet been processed through the
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News Link • Surveillance
The HHS Data Hub, Does Private Information Exist in America?
09-03-2013
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Ben Swann
It is called the Federal Data Hub. Massive amounts of information gathered on every American and shared between government agencies. Agencies ranging from the the IRS to the Department of Defense, Homeland Security and Health and Human Services. T
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News Link • MEDIA BLOG REFERENCES
Federal Agent Misconduct in Favor of BofA and McCarthy Holthus and Levine law firm?
HAS FORECLOSURE
09-03-2013
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http://livinglies.wordpress.com/2013/09/03/federal
This is a story about abuse of power or abuse of apparent power. The object is to cover-up crimes that remain largely undetected because the complex maze created by the “Thirteen Banks.”The stakes could not be higher. Either the current major Banks w
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News Link • Eminent Domain
DHS Seizing Property From Landowners To Build Surveillance Towers
09-03-2013
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http://govtslaves.info, KGUN 9
The feds’ are exercising eminent domain along the Mexico border" buying up property- but paying very little for it. Landowners in Santa Cruz county are livid.
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News Link • Secret Government Projects
Hemisphere Project: AT&T Hosting Massive User Database for DEA
09-03-2013
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Common Dreams
The program, codenamed Hemisphere, covers 'every call that passes through an AT&T switch " not just those made by AT&T customers'
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Syria
Unannounced Israel-U.S. missile test fuels jitters over Syria
09-03-2013
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Reuters
Israel tested a U.S.-backed missile system in the Mediterranean on Tuesday but did not announce the launch in advance, prompting a disclosure by Russia that kept the world on edge as the United States weighed an attack on Syria.
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News Link • Syria
UN: Syrian refugee numbers cross two million
09-03-2013
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aljazeera.com
Exodus placing heavy burden on neighbours amid conflict that has forced 6.2 million out of their homes since March 2011.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Energy
Syria and the geopolitics of oil
09-03-2013
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aljazeera.com
How will rising tensions in the Middle East impact the global energy market?
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