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Date Sent: 2011-12-04
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Sunday, December 4, 2011 |
Russia Threatens to Block NATO Supply Route -- Herman Cain drops out of presidential race
It makes cents - save those copper pennies and double your money? -- Black Friday Best-Seller: Guns -- Are Americans in Line for Gitmo? - by Ray McGovern -- Ron Paul in 12/3/2011 Presidential Forum (Video) -- Newt-Onian
Foreign Policy -- CELAC: A Washington-Controlled OAS Alternative - by Stephen Lendman --
America's Weak Jobs Report -- The new cyber-industrial complex spying on us: WikiLeaks' Spy Files reveal the frightening scale -- The Military Industrial Complex Fights Back -- Paul wins Tea Party
poll -- Ron Paul Interview w/Wolf Blitzer, 12-02-11 -- MF Global mixed
funds, transferred abroad -- Chicago's citizen surveillance the most extensive & integrated in US -- US Is Sending 4 State Of The Art Destroyers To Join The Contested European Missile Shield -- Crisis-hit Greeks leave the cities for a new rural life -- Iowa is
Critical! 182,944+ Super Brochures Already Mailed -- Scott Horton
Interviews James Bovard -- Moderation in Following the Constitution Is No Virtue - by Ivan Eland -- Indefinite Detention and the Free Society... They don't go together -- Pepe Escobar: The Shadow War in Syria -- Rep Jewish Coalition Bars Ron Paul From Their GOP Debate -- WikiLeaks ‘spy files’ pulls curtain back on global surveillance industry -- Newt Gingrich Wants your Thumbprint to Buy a Gun -- Ron Paul 'Dumps Trump' -- The Secret Revolution in North Dakota
AZ: Christmas Party at
the Hancock's in a week, Saturday, December 10th, 2011 6 p.m. til ???
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Russia Threatens to Block NATO Supply Route
12-03-2011
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www.apakistannews.com
Russia has threatened to cut off Nato supply routes to Afghanistan if the alliance doesn’t compromise on its missile defence plans. “If Nato doesn’t give a serious response, we have to address matters in relations in other areas,”
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Currencies
It makes cents - save those copper pennies and double your money?
12-04-2011
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ABC
Gold & silver get all the press, but copper is up as well.An old penny it worth more than double it's face value. But you can't melt down pennies,...YET.
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Reported by:
Chip Saunders
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Opinion • Police State
Ray McGovern: My Take
Are Americans in Line for Gitmo?
12-04-2011
Ray McGovern
Ambiguous but alarming new wording, which is tucked into the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) and was just passed by the Senate, is reminiscent of the “extraordinary measures” introduced by the Nazis after they took power in 1933.
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News Link • r3VOLution Continues
Ron Paul in 12/3/2011 Presidential Forum (Video)
12-03-2011
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StopTheLie.com
Visit RonPaulNow.com for all debates plus other interviews
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Reported by:
Joe Plummer
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Newt-Onian Foreign Policy
12-04-2011
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LewRockwell.com
First, Congress should declare that we are in World War III, says Gingrich. This in turn will require a "dramatically larger budget." And what should be done with this dramatically larger budget?
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Police State
This Weekend on LewRockwell.com - 12-04-2011
12-04-2011
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LewRockwell.com
Another Neocon Enabling Act - Tools of the Plutocracy, Rockefeller Division - How To Choose the Perfect Survival Knife - Ron Paul on World-Wide Counterfeiting - Arrest Americans in America and Hold Them Without Trial, Indefinitely
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Surveillance
The new cyber-industrial complex spying on us: WikiLeaks' Spy Files reveal the frightening scale
12-04-2011
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Pratap Chatterjee, The Guardian
WikiLeaks has just released the Spy Files " a trove of almost 300 documents from these companies that shine a light into this industry. The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, we tracked down yet more material " used to create an online database that
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
The Military Industrial Complex Fights Back
12-04-2011
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KATHLEEN PEINE, CounterPunch
Soon Congress is expected to vote on a bill advanced by John McCain and Carl Levin, a Republican and Democrat who preciously united to bring the foundation needed to propel our nation into a fully militarized nightmare state- similar to what we have
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Reported by:
Leon Felkins
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News Link • Weird/Offbeat News
How messed up is Italy? They don't even know who they're appointing to gov't ministries.
12-04-2011
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AFP
In the shakeup of Italian politics, a Canadian agronomy professor was mistakenly recruited to be Italy's next junior minister for agriculture.
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Reported by:
Chip Saunders
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News Link • Philosophy: Libertarianism
A Progressive Libertarian in the Occupy Age
12-03-2011
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Paul Levinson
Direct democracy, push-back against police brutality and trampling of the First Amendment, pressuring Bank of America to rescind its $5 per month debit card fee, are OWS fundamentals consistent with a progressive libertarian position
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Paul Levinson
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Paul wins Tea Party poll
12-03-2011
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concord monitor
Paul, a Texas congressman, won a straw poll hosted Thursday by the Dubuque Tea Party. A campaign press release declared his victory "a demonstration of his Iowa operation's organizational muscle
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Ron Paul Interview w/Wolf Blitzer, 12-02-11
12-03-2011
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dailypaul.com
Ron Paul is interviewed by Wolf Blitzer on CNN's The Situation Room about his new web ad attacking Newt Gingrich's credibility.
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Reported by:
Donna Hancock
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News Link • Corruption
The Corzine Caper
12-03-2011
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donklephant.com
How about Enron, “Kenny-Boy” Lay, and the Bush administration? -or- How about MF Global, “Jonny” Corzine, and the Obama administration?
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Corruption
Exclusive - MF Global mixed funds, transferred abroad
12-03-2011
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uk.reuters.com
(Reuters) - Regulators investigating the collapse of MF Global have determined that the firm combined money between securities and futures accounts owned by customers, and transferred funds outside the country to at least one entity, a source said on
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Surveillance
Chicago's citizen surveillance the most extensive & integrated in US
12-03-2011
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wakeupfromyourslumber.com
A February report by the American Civil Liberties Union estimated that Chicago had 10,000 surveillance cameras. Let’s now figure on another 4,000 or so.
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • WAR: About that War
US Is Sending 4 State Of The Art Destroyers To Join The Contested European Missile Shield
12-03-2011
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www.prisonplanet.com
At over 500 feet in length, and costing almost $2 billion apiece, the Arleigh Burke class are among the largest destroyers in the American fleet and play a key role in missile defense.
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
Once Again, War is Prime Time and Journalism’s Role is Taboo
12-03-2011
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antiwar.com
The media war against Iran began in 1979 when the west’s placeman Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, a tyrant, was overthrown in a popular Islamic revolution. The "loss" of Iran, which under the shah was regarded as the "fourth pillar" of western control of
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Reported by:
Donna Hancock
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Feature Article • B.O.R.G.
GUNS FOR GOODNESS SAKE
Thomas Costanzo
Should guns only be permitted in the hands of special people? Should every gun in the world be found and destroyed, so no one has guns? What would be the most ethical way for today’s decision makers, influential individuals, and power groups to ali
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News Link • Off Grid Living - Survival Prepping
Crisis-hit Greeks leave the cities for a new rural life
12-03-2011
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www.ekathimerini.com
Uprooted by a national debt crisis and a deepening recession that has eaten up their jobs, incomes and pensions, many Greeks are now returning to their families’ rural past in search of a future.
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • History
Framing the "Great Debate" on World War II
12-03-2011
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FFF.org
Should America actively support the Allies, especially Britain, by providing direct financial and indirect military aid? Or should America maintain its traditional role of nonintervention? (World War I had been the sole exception.)
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Reported by:
Donna Hancock
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News Link • Off Grid Living - Survival Prepping
The new domesticity: Fun, empowering or a step back for American women?
12-03-2011
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www.washingtonpost.com
“This was initially about being frugal and concerned with what I put in my body,” “But it became about the politics. . . . Am I going to buy cheap crap, or am I going to do this stuff myself?”
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Iowa is Critical! 182,944+ Super Brochures Already Mailed
12-03-2011
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dailypaul.com
With your help, the grassroots Ron Paul Super Brochure Project has already mailed 113,406 Iowa Supervoters (as of 8:00am Wednesday morning). But there are over 293,000 total, which means we have a lot of work to do!
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Reported by:
Donna Hancock
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Scott Horton Interviews James Bovard
12-03-2011
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http://antiwar.com/radio/2011/12/02/james-bovard-1
James Bovard, author of Attention Deficit Democracy, discusses his article “Dying to Corrupt Afghanistan;” Hamid Karzai’s empty promises of reform as Afghanistan claims the title of most corrupt government in the world
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Police State
Congress endorsing military detention, a new AUMF (Authorization to Use Military Force)
12-03-2011
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www.salon.com
A bill co-sponsored by Democratic Sen. Carl Levin and GOP Sen. John McCain (S. 1867) " included in the pending defense authorization bill...
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Constitution
Moderation in Following the Constitution Is No Virtue
12-03-2011
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www.independent.org - Ivan Eland
Article III, Section 2 of the Constitution clearly states:...
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Police State
Indefinite Detention and the Free Society... They don't go together.
12-03-2011
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www.thefreemanonline.org
Permit me to state the obvious: Government shouldn’t be allowed to imprison people indefinitely without charge or trial. It shouldn’t be necessary to say this nearly 800 years after Magna Carta was signed and over 200 years after the Fifth Amendment
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • 911 / World Trade Center
The Failure to Investigate 9/11 Has Bankrupted America
12-03-2011
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www.prisonplanet.com
This post will demonstrate " without getting into discussions of an “inside job” one way or the other " that the failure to hold a real 9/11 investigation is a core cause of our loss of our prosperity and freedom.
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Police State
The Military Occupation of America By The Bankster-Owned Traitors
12-03-2011
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www.prisonplanet.com
“If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.” " James Madison.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Rep Jewish Coalition Bars Ron Paul From residential Debate, Saying He's Too "misguided and
12-03-2011
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reason.com
"As Americans who are committed to a strong and vigorous foreign policy, we are deeply concerned about the prospective presidential campaign of Congressman Ron Paul. While Rep. Paul plans to run as a Republican, his views and past record place him fa
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Pepe Escobar: The Shadow War in Syria " Infowars Nightly News
12-03-2011
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www.prisonplanet.com
Aaron talks with Asia Times journalist Pepe Escobar about war clouds forming over Syria, Iran and Pakistan and the steps nuclear power China may take in reaction.
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Surveillance
WikiLeaks ‘spy files’ pulls curtain back on global surveillance industry
12-03-2011
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rawstory.com
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange launched the website’s new project Thursday, the publication of files it claims shows a global industry that gives dictatorships tools to spy on their citizens.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Food
Philips's beehive concept - an urban home for the 21st Century bee
12-03-2011
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Gizmag.com
The collapse of honey-bee colonies is bad news. Seventy-four out of 100 different crop types that account for 90 percent of the global food output are pollinated by bees, but the direct cause of the phenomenon called the Colony Collapse Disorder rema
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Israel
Christians out!
12-03-2011
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www.ynetnews.com
Settlers living on the western hill of the religious community of Har Bracha recently sent a letter to the community secretariat, protesting the housing of Evangelical Christians in their neighborhood.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Media: Print
Muslim girl, 19, 'stoned to death after taking part in beauty contest'
12-03-2011
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U.K. Daily Mail
Katya Koren, a 19 year old Muslim girl, was stoned to death under 'Sharia law' after taking part in a beauty contest in the Ukraine.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Trump Blasts Paul for Smacking Him in Forum-skip
12-03-2011
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Politico.com via RonPaulForums.com
"I am glad he and Jon Huntsman, who has inconsequential poll numbers or a chance of winning, will not be attending the debate and wasting the time of the viewers who are trying very hard to make a very important decision."
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
Contractors to the Congo: markets shrinking, firms look to African instability to revitalize busines
12-01-2011
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Jody Ray Bennett for ISN Insights
While security and defense contracting in Africa is nothing new, the awarding of another multi-million dollar contract by the US State Department to a controversial private security operation is perhaps indicative of just how thinly stretched the US
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
'Cain Train' Derails in Georgia
12-03-2011
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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution via RTR.ORG
"Because of the continued distraction, the continued hurt caused on me and my family, not because we’re not fighters."
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Ron Paul 'Dumps Trump'
12-03-2011
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ronpaul2012.com via all over the net!
"Our candidate will not even consider participating in the late-December debate until Mr. Trump publicly apologizes to Iowa party leaders and rectifies in full the situation."
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • B.O.R.G.
White House Threatens Veto Of Indefinite Detention Bill
12-03-2011
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MIchael McAuliff
WASHINGTON -- Accusing the Senate of "political micromanagement" of national security, the White House Friday stood by its threat to veto a defense bill over controversial military detention provisions.
The National Defense Authorization Act passe
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Thomas Costanzo
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
New Breakthrough in Malaria Fight
12-03-2011
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arclein
Professor Doerig explained "We have shown that a crucial element that is required by malaria parasites to survive in the human blood stream is a group of enzymes called protein kinases. If we stop these proteins kinases from working then we kill the
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
New Aging Route Manipulated
12-03-2011
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arclein
the discovery reveals molecular components of an aging pathway that appears related to one that regulates longevity and lifespan in humans, according to Jef Boeke, Ph.D., professor of molecular biology, genetics and oncology, and director of the HiT
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robert klein
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News Link • Drug War
US Border Issues Prevent Marijuana Legalization
12-03-2011
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arclein
Last week, four former Vancouver mayors each signed an open letter urging politicians to consider legalization and regulation of pot, saying those policies will increase taxes to government, remove illicit profits that lead to gang violence, and elim
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robert klein
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News Link • TAXES: State
The Secret Revolution in North Dakota
12-02-2011
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www.activistpost.com
North Dakota citizens may abolish property taxes. Nearly 30,000 signatures were collected to place the people's initiative on the ballot in June, 2012 that would constitutionally abolish all property taxes in North Dakota.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Events: Arizona
Christmas Party Saturday, December 10th, 2011 6 p.m. til ??? (Update)
11-08-2011
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Meetup.com/Hancock
We will have all of the workshop and activist stations open for newbies to take a tour and see our projects on display.. This year's Christmas Party will be at the home of Ernest and Donna Hancock in Glendale, AZ. Dugger will DJ and have Karaoke :
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Donna Hancock
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