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Date Sent: 2012-11-26
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Monday, November 26, 2012 AM edition |
Lindsey Graham, Peter King break with Grover Norquist -- Obama promises rules for his Murder, Inc.
European Union budget talks collapse -- You are committing a crime right now -- Adam Darwin: Emergent Order in Biology and Economics -- I Hate Cops - by Kent McManigal -- The Spirit of Liberty - by L. Neil Smith -- Iran Accepts Payment in Gold to Get Around Sanctions -- Suit targets human smuggling-law prosecutions -- Who gets flushed for the disaster of Afghanistan? -- US reporter who broke story on Nazi Germany’s surrender fired for it -- Courts Divided Over Searches Of Cellphones -- What has increased 1,377% since 1960? -- Appeals court: State raiding of special funds OK
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Lindsey Graham, Peter King break with Grover Norquist
11-25-2012
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Washington Post
A pair of congressional Republicans reiterated their willingness to violate an anti-tax pledge in order to strike a deal on the “fiscal cliff,” echoing Sen. Saxby Chambliss, the Georgia Republican who suggested the oath may be outdated.
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News Link • TERRORISM
Obama promises rules for his Murder, Inc.
11-25-2012
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New York Times
Facing the possibility that President Obama might not win a second term, his administration accelerated work in the weeks before the election to develop explicit rules for the targeted killing of terrorists by unmanned drones,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - International
European Union budget talks collapse
11-25-2012
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Washington Post
After 2 days of divisive talks, leaders from 27 European Union nations failed to reach an agreement on their trillion-dollar budget. The leaders met in Brussels to try to hammer out a strategic 7-year budget that aims to spur economic activity in Eur
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
You are committing a crime right now
11-25-2012
Are you reading this blog? If so, you are committing a crime under 18 USC 1030(a) (better known as the “Computer Fraud & Abuse Act” or “CFAA”). That’s because I did not explicitly authorize you to access this site, but you accessed it anyway.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
I Hate Cops - by Kent McManigal
11-25-2012
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L. Neil Smith's The Libertarian Enterprise
"Law enforcement" is an inexcusably evil "job". There is absolutely no decency in it. That wasn't true of "peace officers", but once replaced by "law enforcement officers" no good person could fill that "job". Once a cop enforces even one counterfeit
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
The Spirit of Liberty
11-25-2012
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by L. Neil Smith (The Libertarian Enterprise)
.....I have come to some conclusions regarding what must be done if we expect, as individuals or a society, ever to see another good year again. First and foremost, once and for all, the Republican Party has to go away.
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News Link • Iran
Iran Accepts Payment in Gold to Get Around Sanctions
11-25-2012
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Yet another reason the US government hates gold, unlike dealing with paper money in bank accounts, there is no way they can stop international trade in gold and it is difficult to track gold movements.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Immigration
Suit targets human smuggling-law prosecutions
11-25-2012
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AP
Arizona passed a ban on human smuggling in 2005 that has led to more than 2,100 arrests and drawn criticism for a tactic in which people who pay to be sneaked into the country are charged as conspirators to the crime.
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
US reporter who broke story on Nazi Germany’s surrender fired for it
11-25-2012
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Washington Post
Ed Kennedy’s story ran big in newspapers around the world. It should have been his greatest moment, but it became an ordeal. The military revoked his credentials, but that was the least of the indignities. His fellow correspondents turned on him,
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Courts Divided Over Searches Of Cellphones
11-25-2012
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New York Times
Judges and lawmakers across the country are wrangling over whether and when law enforcement authorities can peer into suspects’ cellphones, and the cornucopia of evidence they provide.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Appeals court: State raiding of special funds OK
11-25-2012
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AP
The Arizona Court of Appeals says the Legislature acted within its authority in 2009 when it took nearly $4.7 million from a special fund for injured workers in order to help keep the state in the black during a budget crisis.
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News Link • New World Order
Tragedy & Hope Made Easy - Chapter 2
11-25-2012
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JoePlummer.com
As noted, Quigley wasn’t your run-of-the-mill historian. Unlike most respected academics, he wasn’t afraid to talk about secret conspirators exercising power from the shadows. Nor was he afraid to point out that constitutions, parliaments, presidents
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Consuming Black... Thursday?
11-25-2012
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Free Press Publications
The Salt Lake Tribune reports, “This season appears to mark the end of Black Friday as we know it.” Well, that's not exactly good news.
Whether or not Black Friday becomes Black Thursday or even Black Wednesday, I believe that businesses shou
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News Link • Gun Rights
Gun Rights, Peace, and Liberty (video)
11-24-2012
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The International Libertarian
Darren Wolfe talks about peace, liberty, gun rights, and security from the point of view of arming the people to protect themselves while disarming the government. The talk was based on his opening statement at the Greater Philadelphia Thinking Socie
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Darren Wolfe
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Crowd shouts judge out of courtroom, man declares, “I’m in charge now”
11-24-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
In court Monday, Boniek appeared without an attorney but with many supporters, who filled the courtroom to standing room only save for a few other citizens and attorneys who were present for unrelated court matters.
Boniek told Budeski he had conc
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Constitution
Constitutional Philosophy: Jon Roland, Lecture 1, 2012/11/10
11-24-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Jon Roland discusses political philosophy with a focus on discovery of the principles of constitutional design as the key problem in that field.
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Government
Will Hunting had it right 14 years ago (Video)
11-23-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
My favourite scene from Good Will Hunting and pertinent to the principles of liberty in its condemnation of killing people abroad who have done no harm to you personally. Taken to it's logical conclusion this belief should lead anybody who holds it
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Secession
Tom Woods: Secession Vs. Nullification
11-23-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Interview (Video) on WHDT of Tom Woods discussing Secession Vs. Nullification
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Kids
Fox News guest: ‘We do want to destroy the imaginations of our children’
11-23-2012
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Stephen C. Webster via RawStory.com
In a bizarre interview aired Friday morning, “Fox & Friends” apparently got punked by an author who declared that society absolutely has every reason to “destroy the imaginations of our children.”
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News Link • Secession
Secession's Warning This Time
11-23-2012
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http://www.thedailybell.com, by Staff Report
The hurricane of hatred that greeted Obama's election and the tsunami of slander since that has questioned his religion, his birthplace and his legitimacy show that, 150 years after the Civil War's end, many Americans fail to live up to Lincoln's nob
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Drug War
Legislators in Rhode Island and Maine To Introduce Recreational Marijuana Legalization Bills
11-23-2012
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by emalvini
Legislators in Rhode Island and Maine To Introduce Recreational Marijuana Legalization Bills Tomorrow
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News Link • Police State
Armed Drones to Patrol Highways by 2025
11-23-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Paul Joseph Watson
High-tech machines would disable suspect’s car via remote electromagnetic pulse.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Secession
Two Letters Re: Secession in These United States
11-23-2012
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http://www.survivalblog.com, C.D.P.
I think some writer on this topic miss an extremely important point about secession. That point is immigration and emigration.
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News Link • European Union
Farage: Europe split in every way possible
11-23-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, RT
Disillusionment with the European project has brought more support in Britain for the UK Independence Party, which believes only pulling out of the EU will do.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Self-Defense
Quiet Rimfire Shooting Without a Suppressor
11-23-2012
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http://www.survivalblog.com, by M.B.
Many people have learned much of what they "know" about firearms from the movies. This includes the devices commonly known as "silencers."
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News Link • United Nations
France Hints it Will Support PA's UN Bid
11-23-2012
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http://www.israelnationalnews.com, By Elad Benari
French Foreign Minister reminds senate that President Hollande promised to promote recognition of a Palestinian state.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Entertainment: Sports
Lockout-hit NHL scraps games though Dec. 14
11-23-2012
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RawStory.com
The National Hockey League lost another showcase event to its ongoing lockout on Friday, announcing the cancellation of the 2013 All-Star game along with another fortnight of regular-season contests.
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News Link • Climate Change
Politicians urged to seize the moment on climate change after Sandy
11-23-2012
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The Guardian via RawStory.com
Hurricane Sandy might be fresh in the American public’s memory, but for advocates seeking action on climate change time is running out.
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News Link • Climate Change
Britain delays emissions cut decision to 2016
11-23-2012
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RawStory.com
The British government’s long-awaited legislation to secure investment in low-carbon energy will not include a target to cut emissions by 2030, according to details released on Friday.
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News Link • Climate Change
Obama under pressure to show Doha he is serious on climate change
11-24-2012
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Suzanne Goldenberg via The Guardian
The climate has been back on Obama's lips since his re-election, but the Doha conference will show if he is all talk
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News Link • Activism
Protests erupt across Egypt after presidential decree
11-24-2012
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Peter Beaumont via The Gaurdian
Opponents who accuse Mohamed Morsi of launching constitutional coup clash with Islamist president's supporters
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Is Obamacare on table for 'fiscal cliff' talks?
11-24-2012
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Peter Grier via The Guardian
Hose Speaker John Boehner says it should be, but with a Democratic president and Senate, the reality could be that Republicans will only be able to chip away at the edges of Obamacare.
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News Link • Economy - International
Argentina fears default after American court ruling
11-24-2012
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Heather Stewart and Uki Goñi via The Guardian
Judge orders repayment of $1.3bn to 'vulture funds' as debt campaigners hit out at speculators' behaviour
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News Link • Transportation
Texas highway collisions kill two
11-24-2012
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Associated Press via The Guardian
Two dead and more than 80 people injured in 'catastrophic' 140-car pileup after thick fog descends over Texas highway
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News Link • Energy
Gulf of Mexico Black Elk oil rig fire claims second victim
11-24-2012
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Associated Press via The Guardian
Avelino Tajonera, 49, dies from injuries sustained in fire on 16 November as three other men remain in hospital
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News Link • Police State
NDAA 2013: Let’s Identify The Traitors to The US Constitution
11-23-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
By now anyone who pays attention to politics knows that the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) of 2012 contained a provision that allows for the indefinite detention of U.S. citizens without charge or trial.
Section 1021 of the 2012 NDAA st
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Bionic Eye Lets A Blind Person "See" Braille
11-23-2012
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Nidhi Subbaraman via TechnologyReview.com
The makers of the Argos II retinal prosthetic have devised a way to help blind people read Braille. Their first reported tests with a person wearing an Argos II indicate that this method could help blind people with the implant read signs and short s
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
WHO Announces Family Cluster Of Cases Of New Coronavirus
11-23-2012
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Maryn McKenna via WIRED.com
the World Health Organization announced four new cases of the novel coronavirus that caused a great deal of worry immediately before the October hajj season. (Earlier posts here and here.)
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News Link • Israel
'Son of Hamas' Says Israel Made a Mistake with Ceasefire
11-23-2012
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Arutz Sheva
Mosab Hassan Yousef, the son of one of the founders of Hamas and former Shin Bet agent: Israel made a mistake by agreeing to a ceasefire.
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News Link • Gold and Silver
The thriving Black Market for gold
11-23-2012
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http://www.sovereignman.com, by Simon Black
The Philippines is richly endowed with minerals. So rich, in fact, that individuals can make an excellent living by mining illegal claims through dangerous, primitive methods.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Currencies
Doorsteps of a Currency Crisis
11-23-2012
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http://www.thedailybell.com, by Mike Shedlock
Economic Illiterates Debate Monetary Policy; Monetarist Mush
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News Link • Entertainment: Music
♪♫Aimee Allen, New Band, New Song♫♪♫
11-23-2012
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by ACinMA
Via Aimee Allen's facebook: We leaked a song from our album today called 'LIBERTY' if you haven't checked it out yet, we would be stoked if you took a listen!
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News Link • European Union
Europe's Fine Line of Deep Debt
11-23-2012
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http://www.thedailybell.com, by Staff Report
Merkel's day of reckoning as taxpayer haircut on Greece looms ... Germany, Holland, and the creditor states of northern Europe have not lost a single cent on eurozone rescue packages, so far.
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News Link • Obama Administration
Reps. Ron Paul & Barney Frank to Obama: Leave pot smokers alone
11-23-2012
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by valley6
Dear Mr. President,
We urge you to respect the wishes of the voters of Colorado and Washington and refrain from federal prosecution of the inhabitants of those states who will be following their states’ laws with regard to the use of marijuana.
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News Link • China
China's Aircraft Carrier Hit A Huge Milestone
11-23-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Robert Johnson
Amid the recent political shift within Chinese politics, the effort at modernizing and advancing its military has remained unchanged.
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News Link • Obama Administration
US battles Iraq and Afghanistan over detention without charges
11-23-2012
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http://www.guardian.co.uk, Glenn Greenwald
The Obama administration fights to spread its own values on the core, fundamental right of due process
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News Link • Obama Administration
Details Of Osama Bin Laden's Secret Burial At Sea Revealed In Military Emails
11-23-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Robert Johnson
Details surrounding one of the more controversial details of Osama bin Laden's 2011 takedown are starting to emerge thanks to an Information Request by the Associated Press.
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News Link • Military
General Petraeus Gave Jill Kelley A Medal For Schmoozing
11-23-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Henry Blodget
Did you know you can get a medal from the U.S. military for schmoozing?
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News Link • New World Order
Henry Kissinger: "If You Can't Hear the Drums of War You Must Be Deaf"
11-23-2012
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http://www.dailysquib.co.uk, By Alfred Heinz
In a remarkable admission by former Nixon era Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger, reveals what is happening at the moment in the world and particularly the Middle East.
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