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Date Sent: 2014-07-07
Freedom's Phoenix Edition for Sunday, July 6, 2014 |
UK military had secret plan — and US support — to train Syrian rebels to topple Bashar
Video: U.S. lodges protest over American teen 'severely beaten' by Israeli Border Police -- Tucson Police Release Body-Worn Cam Footage Of Sick, Coed-Attacking Cop -- Shocker: 30 "Bigfoot" hair samples actually from cows, bears, porcupines -- Manhattan Judge Sues Over Traffic Camera Ticket -- 'She was screaming': Calif. Highway Patrol officer caught on video pummeling woman
-- Researchers decoding mysteries of chimpanzee sign language -- Legal
Fees Lost -- The Big and Lethal Lies - Coming at Us Faster than Ever --
Police Arrest Suspect in Murder of Shelly Dadon -- THE US MILITARY IS
PLAYING THE NUCLEAR BLACKMAIL CARD AGAINST UN OCCUPATION FORCES -- Six
'Jewish Extremists' Arrested over Murder of Arab Teen -- Happy
Insurrection Day! -- More Americans Killed By US Cops Than In Iraq War and Occupation -- Retina Grown from Stem Cells -- Was MH370 Hijacked? -- 10 VIDEOS The GOVERNMENT DOESN'T WANT YOU TO SEE [VIDEO] -- The
Ultra-Simple App That Lets Anyone Encrypt Anything -- Texas
Celebrates Fourth of July By Ousting Corrupt UT Austin President
-- Hobby Lobby Could Be a Slippery Slope in the Right Direction -- Feds
Threaten Journalist With Prison Over Report On Illegal Immigration
-- Radioactive material that could be used for dirty bomb is
STOLEN from a truck in Mexico -- Benghazi attack had nothing to
do with anti-Muslim video, court documents prove -- Race to
find human bomb mastermind -- NSA Experts: 'National Security
Has Become a State Religion' -- Court decision puts U.S.
Forest Service's Adventure Pass program in jeopardy -- Drone
captures beautiful film flying through fireworks -- Anti-Gay
Archbishop Investigated for Sexual Misconduct With Men -- Why are
Danes celebrating the Fourth of July? -- Journo: Opposition to
Taxes and Spending Is Racist -- The End of the Internet? -- The
stupidity of student debt -- IRS Crackdown on Offshore Tax Cheats
Comes with a Price -- WE DESPERATELY NEED TO STOP THE
EXPLOITATION OF OUR CHILDREN
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News Link • Syria
UK military had secret plan â€" and US support â€" to train Syrian rebels to topple Bashar
07-06-2014
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The Guardian
Among supporters in the US were secretary of state Hillary Clinton, defense secretary Leon Panetta and David Petraeus, who served as head of the CIA as well as head of US central command and coalition forces in Afghanistan.
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News Link • Palestine -- Israel
Video: U.S. lodges protest over American teen 'severely beaten' by Israeli Border Police
07-06-2014
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Rawstory
The US has lodged a strong protest over the savage beating delivered to an American teen from Florida was attending the funeral of his cousin who was murdered in Israel this week. They carried his unconscious body away
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Tucson Police Release Body-Worn Cam Footage Of Sick, Coed-Attacking Cop [VIDEO]
07-06-2014
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The Daily Caller
The police department in Tucson, Ariz. has released raw video footage from the camera police officer Joel Mann was wearing when he brutally pummeled a female student who was walking innocuously just off the campus of the University of Arizona.
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News Link • Weird/Offbeat News
Shocker: 30 "Bigfoot" hair samples actually from cows, bears, porcupines
07-06-2014
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ars technica
Two of the samplesâ€"those from India and Bhutanâ€"had sequences matching those of fossilized polar bears. Every other sequence matched extant animals including racoons, sheep, black bears, cows, and even a porcupine.
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News Link • Camera Fraud
Manhattan Judge Sues Over Traffic Camera Ticket
07-06-2014
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CBS News/AP
A driver who just so happens to be a judge has filed a lawsuit against the City of New York for a traffic camera ticket he claimed was unjust. Wright contested the violation and appealed an administrative law judge's ruling against him.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
'She was screaming': Calif. Highway Patrol officer caught on video pummeling woman
07-06-2014
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Rawstory
The officer catching up to the woman on foot. She appears to walk away from him, before the officer takes her to the ground. After a brief struggle, the officer begins pummeling her with punches to the head.
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News Link • Anthropology
Researchers decoding mysteries of chimpanzee sign language
07-06-2014
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AFP
Chimpanzees use their hands to say "follow me," "stop that" or "take this," according to new research seeking to translate the sophisticated messages flowing back and forth. Previous research revealed our nearest genetic relatives use
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Legal Fees Lost
07-06-2014
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Simple Justice
After issuing Nelson a traffic citation, the trooper asked Nelson if the RV contained drugs or guns. When Nelson told him it did not, the trooper asked to search the RV. When Nelson refused permission, the officer detained him and called in a canine
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
Op-Ed: The Big and Lethal Lies - Coming at Us Faster than Ever
07-06-2014
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Phyllis Chesler
False equivalency between murders threatens a bloodbath.
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News Link • World News
Police Arrest Suspect in Murder of Shelly Dadon
07-06-2014
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Arutz Sheva
Arab taxi driver confesses to murder of Afula teenager 'for nationalistic reasons'; reconstructs the act.
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News Link • World News
Six 'Jewish Extremists' Arrested over Murder of Arab Teen
07-05-2014
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Arutz Sheva
Arrests come as police sources say murder of Mohammed Abu-Khder almost certainly 'nationalistic' in nature.
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
Happy Insurrection Day!
07-05-2014
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by William N. Grigg (Pro Liberate)
If the genuine meaning of the event commemorated on the Fourth of July were to become widely known, our rulers would respond by criminalizing the celebration and the document that should be at its center.
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Feature Article • Arizona's Top News
Quantum Creativity Workshop
Thomas Costanzo
A gathering of free-thinkers to promote awareness, creativity and personal evolution.
Facilitated by Bob Podolsky, Author, Creativity Enhancement Consultant and Ethics Educator
Through amplifying and synchronizing participants' energy fields, s
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News Link • Police State
More Americans Killed By US Cops Than In Iraq War and Occupation
07-05-2014
In 1994 the US Government passed a law authorizing the Pentagon to donate surplus Cold War era military equipment to local police departments.
In the 20 years since, weaponry designed for use on a foreign battlefield, has been handed over for use
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News Link • Archaeology
A 500,000-Year-Old Spark Plug?
07-05-2014
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arclein
The only people who have physically examined the artifact are the three people who found it and Ron Calais, who believes the conventional understanding of human history is incorrect. For years, it was on display at the home of Wallace Lane, another o
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News Link • Science
Retina Grown from Stem Cells
07-05-2014
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arclein
During the experiment, Dr Canto-Soler's team were able to encourage initial growth of the retina, which then continued developing on its own.
"When we began this work, we didn't think stem cells would be able to build up a retina almost on thei
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News Link • Science
A Neuroscientist Explains What Happens To Your Brain When You Meditate
07-05-2014
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arclein
Meditation is becoming very popular lately. Perhaps it's the anecdotal evidence friends are sharing with each other or the fact that more and more science is coming out to confirm the benefits of meditation that it's encouraging people to take up the
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News Link • Science
Was MH370 Hijacked?
07-05-2014
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arclein
This effort to power down the transponder caused a power outage of the plane's connection with a satellite, requiring that connection to be renegotiated to establish a new "handshake." It is this highly unusual request for a new satellite handshak
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News Link • Corruption
10 VIDEOS The GOVERNMENT DOESN'T WANT YOU TO SEE [VIDEO]
07-05-2014
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thechangewithin.
In the current age of technology, while the internet is still free, information is accessible like no other time in history. The ability to keep information from the public is not as easy as it once was.
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News Link • Technology: Software
The Ultra-Simple App That Lets Anyone Encrypt Anything
07-05-2014
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Wired.com
Encryption is hard. When NSA leaker Edward Snowden wanted to communicate with journalist Glenn Greenwald via encrypted email, Greenwald couldn't figure out the venerable crypto program PGP even after Snowden made a 12-minute tutorial video.
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News Link • Corruption
Texas Celebrates Fourth of July By Ousting Corrupt UT Austin President
07-05-2014
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reason.com
A major shakeup is coming to the University of Texas at Austin.
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
Hobby Lobby Could Be a Slippery Slope in the Right Direction
07-05-2014
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reason.com
No one should be able to use government to force anyone else to buy them something.
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News Link • Police State
Feds Threaten Journalist With Prison Over Report On Illegal Immigration
07-05-2014
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infowars.com
DoD claims reporter engaged in "unauthorized photography and broadcast" outside immigration shelter
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News Link • Mexico
Radioactive material that could be used for dirty bomb is STOLEN from a truck in Mexico -
07-05-2014
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dailymail.co.uk
Radioactive material that could be used for dirty bomb is STOLEN from a truck in Mexico - for the second time in eight months
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Benghazi attack had nothing to do with anti-Muslim video, court documents prove
07-05-2014
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dailymail.co.uk
Ahmed Abu Khattala faces criminal charges in the deaths of the U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other Americans from the attack on Sept. 11, 2012
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News Link • TERRORISM
Race to find human bomb mastermind:
07-05-2014
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dailymail.co.uk
Airport crackdown over fears Al-Qaeda 'evil genius' has created devices that can be sewn inside passengers' bodies
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News Link • Surveillance
NSA Experts: 'National Security Has Become a State Religion'
07-05-2014
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spiegel.de
In a SPIEGEL interview, Edward Snowden's lawyer, Jesselyn Radack, and former NSA contractor Thomas Drake discuss the reasons behind the American spying agency's obssession with collecting data.
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Court decision puts U.S. Forest Service's Adventure Pass program in jeopardy
07-05-2014
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dailynews.com
A federal court judge has ordered the U.S. Forest Service to refund entrance fees to four Southern California hikers, leaving the 17-year-old Adventure Pass program in tatters.
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News Link • Drones
Drone captures beautiful film flying through fireworks
07-05-2014
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gizmodo.com
This videoâ€"shot from a drone over West Palm Beach, Floridaâ€"takes you into the heart of a fireworks display.
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News Link • Religion: Believers
Anti-Gay Archbishop Investigated for Sexual Misconduct With Men
07-05-2014
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roygbiv.jezebel.com
It looks like the anti-same-sex marriage crusader Archbishop John Nienstedt of St. Paul and Minneapolis has been accused of multiple incidents of inappropriate sexual conduct with seminarians, priests, and other men.
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News Link • History
Why are Danes celebrating the Fourth of July?
07-05-2014
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csmonitor.com
To celebrate American independence, thousands of Danes have gathered annually at a scenic national park on a slope in Jutland â€" for more than 100 years. And it's not just expats who attend.
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News Link • Political Parties
Journo: Opposition to Taxes and Spending Is Racist
07-05-2014
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breitbart.com
David Cay Johnston, the board president of Investigative Reporters and Editors, Inc., blamed racism and "fixed ideology that has no support in the empirical data" for opposition to increased taxes and spending.
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News Link • Internet
The End of the Internet?
07-05-2014
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theatlantic.com
How regional networks may replace the World Wide Web
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
IRS Crackdown on Offshore Tax Cheats Comes with a Price
07-05-2014
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finance.yahoo.com
If you're an American, July 4 likely holds some significance for you, even if that's only getting the day off from work, having a beer, and watching some fireworks.
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Opinion • Humor
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News, July 6, 2014 Edition
07-04-2014
John Semmens
Hobby Lobby Wage Boost Rankles Democrats
With the liability of being forced to finance employees' abortions taken off its back by the recent Supreme Court voiding of the Obamacare mandate, Hobby Lobby announced it is raising the minimum wage of it
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News Link • Iraq
US opposes independence referendum for Iraqi Kurds
07-04-2014
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AFP
The United States came out against a call by Iraq's Kurdish leader for an independence referendum, saying the country could only repel Islamic State radicals by staying united.
Massud Barzani, leader of the autonomous region, earlier told parliame
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News Link • Immigration
Feds Hand Out Border Pass To Mexican Snitch
07-04-2014
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The Smoking Gun
A Mexican informant who provided "credible information" to US law enforcement agencies about narcotics trafficking was compensated "with the ability to cross the border legally into the United States for at least one year."
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
How Magic Mushrooms Really 'Expand the Mind'
07-04-2014
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Live Science
Your brain on psychedelic drugs looks similar to your brain when you're dreaming, suggests a new study that may also explain why people on psychedelics feel they are expanding their mind.
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News Link • Iraq
Iraq chases Baghdad sleeper cells as 'Zero Hour' looms over capital
07-04-2014
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Reuters
Iraqi insurgents are preparing for an assault on Baghdad, with sleeper cells planted inside the capital to rise up at "Zero Hour" and aid fighters pushing in from the outskirts, according to senior Iraqi and U.S. security officials.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
CA Cops to Homeless: Be our guinea pigs or be arrested
07-03-2014
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Participants in the CA Drug Recognition Evaluator Program are reporting they have been forced to participate in this testing or otherwise face arrest. The California Highway Patrol's program is intended to train officers how to
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Idaho Court Criminalizes Sleeping It Off
07-03-2014
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The Newspaper
The court cited the 2008 Appeals Court decision Idaho v. Buell which held that an individual accused of driving drunk has no right to refuse to perform field sobriety tests.
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
White House Call Girl
07-03-2014
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Lew Rockwell blog
Ann Sterzinger's insightful review of Phil Stanford' excellent book, White House Call Girl, is superb. Stanford has written what I believe to be the best examination of the real Watergate Scandal story, one which is perfectly compatible with my own t
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Georgia Man Arrested and Banned from Sheriff's Office for Recording Public Records Request
07-03-2014
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Photography Is Not a Crime
But Georgia public records law allows citizens to photograph public records during their requests, so again, it was an unlawful arrest, especially considering there is no law against video recording in the lobby of a public building as he was doing.
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News Link • Politics: Democratic Campaigns
Clintons Exposed!
07-03-2014
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Lew Rockwell blog
Check out these two revealing exposes' of the Clintons duplicity concerning the most intimate secret of their tumultuous relationship: the true paternity of "their" daughter Chelsea Clinton....
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News Link • History
Perfect Aryan Baby Selected By Nazis Was . . . You Guessed It . . . Jewish
07-03-2014
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Jonathan Turley
Hessy Taft was a gorgeous baby by any measure in 1935. Her picture was so adorable it was selected by Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels as the cover for the Nazi family magazine as the very ideal of an Aryan child.
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News Link • Internet
Rare leaked NSA source code reveals Tor servers targeted
07-03-2014
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ars technica
Two Germany-based Tor Directory Authority servers, among others, have been specifically targeted by the National Security Agency's XKeyscore program, according to a new report from German public broadcaster ARD. Tor is a well-known open source projec
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News Link • Police State
Gallup Poll: Satisfaction With Their Freedoms Has Record Drop Among Americans
07-03-2014
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Jonathan Turley
A new Gallup poll shows a record drop in the satisfaction of Americans over their freedoms. The massive drop is matched in such countries as Egypt, Pakistan, and Venezuela.
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News Link • Military
Pentagon Urged to Focus on 'Great Power Conflict' to Save Budget
07-03-2014
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http://www.defenseone.com, Ben Watson //
Forget terrorism. The Pentagon's best chance to field the best military with the smaller budget imposed by sequestration may just lie in preparing for nuclear war with Russia and China.
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News Link • Iraq
Dempsey Says Iraq Can't Beat ISIL, Won't Rule Out More U.S. Troops
07-03-2014
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http://www.defenseone.com, Stephanie Gaskell //
The Iraqi Army won't be able to regain territory lost to extremist Islamic fighters without launching a "really broad" military campaign, and they're going to need a lot of help doing it, Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey said Thursday.
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News Link • Secret Government Projects
US has a secret military presence in Somalia
07-03-2014
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nypost.com
US military advisers have secretly operated in Somalia since around 2007 and Washington plans to deepen its security assistance to help the country fend off threats from the Islamist militant group al Shabaab, US officials said.
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News Link • Currencies
The BRICs Are Morphing Into An Anti-Dollar Alliance
07-03-2014
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http://www.zerohedge.com, Tyler Durden
While numerous massively indebted administrations around the world hope to divert the attention of what's left of their struggling middle class away from its daily impoverished existence and distract it with flashing lights and glitzy animations show
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News Link • Food
How Fast Food Providers Beat Inflation - Add Wood Pulp To Burgers
07-03-2014
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http://www.zerohedge.com, Tyler Durden
On Monday, Quartz published an article by Devin Cohen titled, There is a Secret Ingredient in Your Burgers: Wood Pulp.
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
California Cops Forcing the Homeless to Participate in Drug Training Exercises
07-03-2014
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http://thefreethoughtproject.com, Cassandra Rules
CA Cops to Homeless: Be our guinea pigs or be arrested
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News Link • Energy
Man Faces Jail Time For Installing Wind Turbine on Own Property
07-03-2014
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http://thefreethoughtproject.com. John Vibes
A Minnesota man is risking jail time by refusing to remove a wind turbine from his property.
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News Link • Climate Change
Did Federal Climate Scientists Fudge Temperature Data to Make It Warmer?
07-03-2014
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http://reason.com, Ronald Bailey
Practicing the Dark Art of Trend Adjustment
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News Link • Drug War
Heartwarming End to a Horrible Drug War Tragedy: Baby Bou Has Recovered!
07-03-2014
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http://thefreethoughtproject.com,
The toddler who was severely injured when police, looking for, $50 worth of drugs, threw a flashbang grenade into his crib, has walked out of the hospital this week!
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News Link • Media: Internet
As Commanded by EU, News Stories Start Disappearing from Google Searches
07-03-2014
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http://reason.com, Scott Shackford
The Google purge has begun in Europe.
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News Link • Police State
KPNX News 2 - Marc Victor - ASU Professor Arrested for Jaywalking
07-03-2014
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yahoo.com
Attorney Marc J. Victor with more on ASU english professor Dr. Ersula Ore being arrested for jaywalking. Attorney Marc Victor said both parties handled the situation wrong and tells why.
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