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Date Sent: 2012-04-25
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Wednesday, April 25, 2012 PM edition |
Bradley Manning judge orders damage assessment released -- CISPA Allows DHS to Grab Tax Returns
04-25-12 - Asteroid Mining - Drew Phillips - Tim Frey rrbi.co Dime Cards 5.0 & GOLD Cards coming / Ron Paul in to end? --
Rural kids, parents angry about Labor Dept. rule banning farm chores --
Rebels Call for Free Market Flash Mobs -- Ron Paul on CNBC 4/23/12 -- Executive Orders Unleashed: Obama “Can’t Wait” to Bypass Congress -- Ron Paul Winning: MSM Decides its Safe to Announce Delegate Wins -- Memory Failure at the Pentagon -- US-Japan to Announce Agreement on Troops, Military Bases -- Israeli Military Chief: Iran Won’t Develop Nuclear Weapons -- Nestle's New Deal More Proof of Profits Trumping Public Health -- Experts: Contrary to Mainstream Myth, 'Social Security is Strong' and Could Be Made Stronger -- 164 Anti-Immigration Laws Passed Since 2010? A MoJo Analysis -- 11 Minutes To
Eat School Lunch?!? -- Arrest of BP Engineer Beginning or End of
Gulf Disaster Criminal Liability? -- Three Things to Know About the
Challenge to Arizona's Immigration Law -- Bahraini police disperse crowd
of hunger striker’s supporters (PHOTOS) -- Annan to UN: Violence in
Syria unacceptable, expedite observer deployment -- Pakistan tests
nuclear-capable ballistic missile -- US taxpayers shelling out
billions for faulty weapons -- Ron Paul’s Delegate Haul in Primaries
Strengthens Hand at GOP Convention -- EU says no impact on U.S. beef
imports from mad cow case -- THE PENTAGON'S "COUNTERINSURGENCY WAR" ON LATIN
AMERICA : Colombia, America 's ' -- TOP OF THE WORLD: NATO Rehearses
For War In The Arctic -- Another way to kill US farmers: Seize their
bank accounts on phony charges -- Preventing Peace to Wage War --
NGO's Promote Wars for Profit -- Rebels Call for Free Market Flash
Mobs
AZ: Free CCW Legal Seminar - Marc J. Victor - TONIGHT,
4-25, 6-8 pm, Chester's Harley-Davidson (Mesa)
Schulz Answers Judge Napolitano:
See the VIDEO & the PLAN: Live WEBINARs this Thurs.
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News Link • Military
Bradley Manning judge orders damage assessment released
04-25-2012
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http://rt.com
A judge is to see for herself how the US assessed the damage inflicted upon the government by Bradley Manning’s WikiLeaks activities.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Homeland Security
CISPA Amendment Allows DHS to Intercept Tax Returns
04-25-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Paul Joseph Watson
Perennial big government advocate Sheila Jackson Lee strikes again
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Events: Arizona
Free CCW Legal Seminar - Marc J. Victor - Weds, 4-25, 6-8 pm, Chester's Harley-Davidson (Mesa, A
04-20-2012
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www.meetup.com/RonPaulPhoenix
Another opportunity to learn about your rights....
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Reported by:
Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Rural kids, parents angry about Labor Dept. rule banning farm chores
04-25-2012
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dailycaller.com
A proposal from the Obama administration to prevent children from doing farm chores has drawn plenty of criticism from rural-district members of Congress. But now it’s attracting barbs from farm kids themselves.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Obama Administration
Executive Orders Unleashed: Obama “Can’t Wait” to Bypass Congress
04-25-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Prisonplanet
Apologists here for Obama’s use of executive orders point out the other recent presidents who’ve also overreached their use of executive orders.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Ron Paul Winning: MSM Decides its Safe to Announce Delegate Wins
04-25-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Prisonplanet
Now three people have won Iowa during this primary season. Last night, Ron Paul’s delegate finagling strategy paid off as he guaranteed himself at least half of the delegates in Iowa and Minnesota.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Military
Memory Failure at the Pentagon
04-25-2012
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antiwar.comby Nick Turse and Tom Engelhardt
Call it a mantra, a litany, or a to-don’t list, but the drip, drip, drip of Afghan disaster and the gross-out acts accompanying it have already resulted in one of those classic fill-you-in paragraphs that reporters hang onto for whenever the next lit
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Military
US-Japan to Announce Agreement on Troops, Military Bases
04-25-2012
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http://news.antiwar.com, by John Glaser
As Obama's 'Asia pivot' develops, the people of Japan and Guam have actively resisted American occupation
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Israel
Israeli Military Chief: Iran Won’t Develop Nuclear Weapons
04-25-2012
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http://news.antiwar.com, by Jason Ditz
Warns Against 'Hysteria' as Netanyahu Threatens Attack Again
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Nestle's New Deal More Proof of Profits Trumping Public Health
04-25-2012
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http://www.commondreams.org, Common Dreams staff
Company purchased Pfizer's infant formula business, creates privatization pathway in emerging Asian markets
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Social Security
Experts: Contrary to Mainstream Myth, 'Social Security is Strong' and Could Be Made Stronger
04-25-2012
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http://www.commondreams.org, Common Dreams staff
Lifting the payroll tax cap and better coverage by journalists would help build sustainable future for essential program
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Immigration
164 Anti-Immigration Laws Passed Since 2010? A MoJo Analysis
04-25-2012
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motherjones.com,By Ian Gordon and Tasneem Raja
We crunched the data behind the self-deportation crowd's spate of state laws, the private-prison industry's campaign spending, and more.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Ex-CIA Officer Who Destroyed Waterboarding Videos
04-25-2012
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http://www.commondreams.org, Common Dreams staff
Former CIA officer, Jose Rodriguez on waterboarding tape destruction: ‘Just getting rid of some ugly visuals’
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
11 Minutes To Eat School Lunch?!?
04-25-2012
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http://motherjones.com, By Tom Philpott
My recent post on the question of food deserts and people's eating habits led me to a topic I haven't touched in a while: school lunches.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Arrest of BP Engineer Beginning or End of Gulf Disaster Criminal Liability?
04-25-2012
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http://www.commondreams.org, Common Dreams staff
Former BP engineer charged with destroying evidence in Gulf oil spill
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Arizona Laws and Arizona Founding Documents
Three Things to Know About the Challenge to Arizona's Immigration Law
04-25-2012
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http://motherjones.com, By Adam Serwer
The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on SB 1070, Arizona's controversial immigration law, on Wednesday. Here are three tidbits to keep in mind:
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Robert Lee
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News Link • World News
Bahraini police disperse crowd of hunger striker’s supporters (PHOTOS)
04-25-2012
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http://rt.com
Bahraini police have once again brutally dispersed a crowd of protesters calling for the release of a jailed activist serving a life sentence.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Syria
Annan to UN: Violence in Syria unacceptable, expedite observer deployment
04-25-2012
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http://rt.com,
Kofi Annan has said the situation in Syria is "bleak," expressing concern at reports the government was still conducting military operations. But experts say the West’s biased approach is to blame for that.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • World News
Pakistan tests nuclear-capable ballistic missile
04-25-2012
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http://rt.com
Pakistan successfully tested a nuclear-capable ballistic missile on Wednesday. The launch comes less than a week after Islamabad’s main adversary India tested a long-range ballistic missile of its own.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
US taxpayers shelling out billions for faulty weapons
04-25-2012
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http://rt.com
The Pentagon has frittered away billions in taxpayer cash on not fully tested arms, a government watchdog report says.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Sick new trend: Teens getting drunk off hand sanitizer
04-25-2012
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http://www.nydailynews.com, By Lindsay Goldwert
Gel has 62% ethyl alcohol; it's akin to hard liquor and can sicken with a few shots
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Ron Paul’s Delegate Haul in Primaries Strengthens Hand at GOP Convention
04-25-2012
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http://www.thedailybeast.com, by Ben Jacobs
The Texas congressman’s second-place finish in the delegate tally in Tuesday’s five primaries bolsters his strategy to gain enough clout to mold the GOP platform to his taste come November.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • European Union
EU says no impact on U.S. beef imports from mad cow case
04-25-2012
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http://www.reuters.com, By Charlie Dunmore
The European Union's executive said on Wednesday it did not intend to impose any particular measures on imports from the United States following the discovery of the country's first case of mad cow disease or BSE in six years.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Republican Primary 2012: What's next for Mitt Romney
04-25-2012
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http://www.politico.com, By REID J. EPSTEIN
With the primary campaign essentially over, Mitt Romney has landed on a new strategy to keep him in the headlines: getting in President Barack Obama’s face at every opportunity.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Government
THE PENTAGON'S "COUNTERINSURGENCY WAR" ON LATIN AMERICA : Colombia, America 's '
04-25-2012
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http://www.globalresearch.ca, by Rick Rozoff
The Pentagon announced on April 23 that Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has begun a trip to South America, arriving in Colombia as part of a three-nation tour that will also take him to Brazil and Chile.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • NATO
TOP OF THE WORLD: NATO Rehearses For War In The Arctic
04-25-2012
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http://www.globalresearch.ca, by Rick Rozoff
The Western campaign for global dominance has reached the top of the world.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Forfeiture & Seizure
Another way to kill US farmers: Seize their bank accounts on phony charges
04-23-2012
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Rady Ananda Food Freedom News
Monsanto’s Food and Drug Administration can’t close down small dairies and private food clubs fast enough, bursting on the scene with guns drawn as if the criminalized right to contract for natural foods we’ve consumed for millennia deserves SWAT att
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Free Trade
Rebels Call for Free Market Flash Mobs
04-25-12
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http://silverunderground.com/2012/04/rebels-call-f
While poking around for Rebels on Facebook I came across this group that is promoting an idea so awesome I had to spread the word. The group is called Rebel Road and they’re hosting a public event they’re calling a Free Market Flash Mob. They invite
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Agorist Alma
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
"If I wanted America to fail"
04-24-2012
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youtube (h/t Lew Rockwell blog)
The environmental agenda has been infected by extremism"it's become an economic suicide pact. And we're here to challenge it. On Earth Day, visit www.freemarketamerica.org.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Food
Blogging About the Paleo Diet Can Get You Shut Down in North Carolina
04-24-2012
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Reason magazine
The state of North Carolina has its own "Board of Dietetics and Nutrition"--of course it does--and decided that one bloggers right to free speech ends where its Board of Dietetics and Nutrition's officious overbearingness begins
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Food
Mad cow reemergence may hamper California's beef, dairy industries
04-24-2012
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http://www.latimes.com, By Tiffany Hsu
The reemergence of mad cow disease, discovered in a California dairy cow, could have major implications for the state’s meat industry, even though officials have said that the human food supply is unaffected.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Homeland Security
TSA Leaves Note Telling Passenger To “Go To Hell”
04-24-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Steve Watson
Scrawled comment on complaint form after agents tampered with luggage
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Homeland Security
Weeping four-year-old girl accused of carrying a GUN by TSA officers
04-24-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, HUGO GYE
Of all the many complaints about airport security and the TSA, one of the most common is that they make little distinction between plausible security threats and passengers unlikely to be doing anything wrong.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Secret Societies
Secretive Bilderberg Group Set To Meet In Virginia May 31st-June 3rd
04-24-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Paul Joseph Watson
Globalist clique set to play role in U.S. presidential election
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Obama Administration
Hypocrisy, USA: Obama will sanction countries that block Internet for protesters
04-24-2012
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http://rt.com
United States President Barack Obama announced plans on Monday to impose sanctions on foreign governments that use modern technology to tackle anti-government protesters.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Anonymous
Anonymous unveils data-sharing websites amid privacy concerns
04-24-2012
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http://rt.com
Just days before the US Congress starts discussing new cybersecurity legislation, those fighting for online freedoms unleashed their own ammunition by way of some new websites that strike to keep the Internet open.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Homeland Security
The journalist: Homeland Security's top terrorist?
04-24-2012
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http://rt.com
If you want to know what the US Department of Homeland Security has been working hard at lately, leave it to a multimedia journalist from Miami, Florida to lay it out for you: they’ve been busy on Facebook.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Government
Does Asteroid Mining Violate Space Law?
04-24-2012
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Life's Little Mysteries
But to whom do those trillions belong " the company, or everyone? Does a private company have a right to stake claim to an asteroid, or are celestial bodies the communal property of all Earthlings? [meaning none]
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Events: Arizona
"What's 'Really' Wrong with Entitlements"
04-24-2012
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Phoenix Objectivists
Phoenix Objectivists will be joined this Friday, April 27th at 7 p.m. by Ayn Rand Institute fellow Don Watkins who will give a talk entitled: "What's 'Really' Wrong with Entitlements."
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Exclusive: National Security Agency Whistleblower William Binney on Growing State Surveillance
04-24-2012
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http://www.democracynow.org
William Binney discusses the NSA’s massive power to spy on Americans and why the FBI raided his home after he became a whistleblower.
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News Link • Surveillance
"We Don’t Live in a Free Country":
04-24-2012
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http://www.democracynow.org
We speak with Jacob Appelbaum, a computer researcher who has faced a stream of interrogations and electronic surveillance since he volunteered with the whistleblowing website, WikiLeaks.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Space X launch to International Space Station delayed
04-24-2012
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http://www.globalpost.com,
Space X wants to send the first privately-owned unmanned cargo vessel to the International Space Station.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Collateral Insanity in Afghanistan
04-24-2012
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http://www.inthesetimes.org, BY Terry J. Allen
After decades of military devastation, Afghans are traumatized.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • United Nations
Say Hello to Your New Master: Environmental Dictatorship
04-24-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com
The United Nations plans to use its upcoming UN Conference on “Sustainable Development” (UN CSD or Rio+20) in Rio de Janeiro to amass a vast array of unprecedented new powers and literally re-shape civilization, the global economy, and even peoples’
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Military
Pentagon Announces Another New Military Spy Unit
04-24-2012
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http://news.antiwar.com, by Jason Ditz
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama Unveils New Sanctions on Syria and Iran
04-24-2012
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http://news.antiwar.com, by Jason Ditz
Cites Holocaust in Sanctions Against Technology Development
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
Suspected cyber-attack hits Iran’s oil sector
04-24-2012
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http://rt.com
A virus has been discovered in computers running key parts of Iran's oil sector, forcing authorities to unplug its main oil export terminal from the Internet.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Anonymous
CIA site downed as Anonymous claims attack
04-24-2012
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http://rt.com
The CIA website is now back online following a DDoS attack reportedly perpetrated by the hacktivist group Anonymous.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • World News
Egypt bars US-based civil society groups
04-24-2012
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http://www.aljazeera.com
Eight requests for licences to operate rejected because "the groups' activities violated state sovereignty".
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