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Date Sent: 2012-11-23
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, November 23, 2012 |
Police Raid 9-Year-Old Pirate Bay Girl, Confiscate Winnie The Pooh Laptop
11-23-12 -- Ernest goes over the Freedom's Phoenix Headline News -
LISTEN LIVE on LRN.FM, M-F -- Farewell To A Giant - by Chuck Baldwin -- Rallies for,
against Egypt president's new powers -- Federal
Audit Proves TSA Is Misleading Public, Covering Up Passenger Complaints
-- No Sailors Saw Osama Bin Laden’s Alleged Burial at Sea -- Chemtrail
Assault Amazing Time-lapse -- High-Tech Guard Tower To Spy on Buffalo
Residents
-- CHARTS: The Great Decline Of American Driving -- Iran cautiously backs Gaza truce deal -- After ceasefire, Israel
arrests 55 militants in West Bank -- Four Chinese hostages freed in
Colombia -- Globalist
Controllers Revealed (Video) -- Monsanto insurance: USDA tells farmers
to pay for avoiding troubles with agro-giant -- Peter Diamandis - The best way to predict the
future -- 11-22-12 -- Ernest Hancock on Thanksgiving - LISTEN LIVE on LRN.FM,
M-F, 9-Noon (EST) -- 4409: SnowBall
explains the Sinister Roots behind "Thanksgiving" -- Artists stage exhibit of trash found on Mount Everest -- Greenhouse gases rose to record levels in 2011: UN
-- UN: Goals on curbing greenhouse gases even further out of
reach -- Higher retail wages would lift Americans out of
poverty, boost economy -- Prosecutors: NYPD officer planned on
‘girl meat’ Thanksgiving meal -- Teenagers arrested for
killing neighbor’s turkey with bow and arrow -- Union asks suppliers
to stop handling goods for Walmart -- Oops: Russia bans YouTube
over ‘technical mistake’ -- Poll: Americans to spend 3 to 4
percent more on holiday shopping this year -- More eruptions
expected as N. Zealand ‘Lord of the Rings’ volcano disrupts flights
-- Swiss nuclear reactor shuts down due to defect -- Mexican
mayor says police involved in deadly kidnap attempt -- Police
probe French racist incident in Australia -- An Annotated Guide To
Mining The Seafloor -- The Ongoing Kennedy Casket Mystery -
by Jacob G. Hornberger
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Police Raid 9-Year-Old Pirate Bay Girl, Confiscate Winnie The Pooh Laptop
11-22-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
An anti-piracy company has found itself in the middle of a huge controversy. CIAPC, the company that had The Pirate Bay blocked by ISPs in Finland, tracked an alleged file-sharer and demanded a cash settlement. However, the Internet account holder re
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Opinion • Future Predictions
Farewell To A Giant
11-23-2012
Chuck Baldwin
There is no doubt in my mind that history will regard Dr. Paul as the greatest congressman in US history. Ron Paul has done more to guard and defend liberty and constitutional government than perhaps any man since Thomas Jefferson.
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News Link • Activism
Rallies for, against Egypt president's new powers
11-23-2012
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http://hosted.ap.org
Demonstrators for and against sweeping new powers assumed by Egypt's Islamist president are gathering in different parts of Cairo, a clear show of the deep polarization plaguing the country.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Gaza and America
11-23-2012
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http://blog.independent.org, By Anthony Gregory
When Hamas, a quasi-state claiming to represent the Palestinians, launches rockets that predictably kill or maim everyday Israelis, destroy property, and cause fear among civilians, it is committing terrorism.
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Federal Audit Proves TSA Is Misleading Public, Covering Up Passenger Complaints
11-23-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Steve Watson
GAO report says many complaints to TSA going undocumented; Agents implementing complaints process at their own discretion; Could be covering each other’s backs
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Obama Administration
No Sailors Saw Osama Bin Laden’s Alleged Burial at Sea
11-23-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Kurt Nimmo
More than a year after Navy SEALs supposedly killed former CIA asset Osama bin Laden, a FOIA by the Associated Press has produced emails revealing that no American sailors aboard the USS Carl Vinton witnessed the terrorist’s burial at sea.
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News Link • Chemtrails
Chemtrail Assault Amazing Time-lapse
11-23-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com
You can actually see the clouds form out of thin air.
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News Link • Surveillance
High-Tech Guard Tower To Spy on Buffalo Residents
11-23-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Paul Joseph Watson
Towers could become widespread to deal with civil unrest
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News Link • Employment & Jobs
McKinsey Predicts The War For Talent Will Go Nuts By 2020
11-23-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Max Nisen
Despite all the talk from Peter Thiel and others about how college is a poor investment, a new study from McKinsey finds that one of the biggest employment trends in coming decades will be a shortage of high-skill, college-educated workers for all ad
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News Link • Transportation
CHARTS: The Great Decline Of American Driving
11-23-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Doug Short
The Department of Transportation's Federal Highway Commission has released the latest report on Traffic Volume Trends, data through September.
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
A Fan Made This Epic 7-Minute Trailer For 'The Hobbit'
11-23-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Kirsten Acuna
If you can't get enough of "The Hobbit" before its December 14 release, you're in luck.
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News Link • Employment & Jobs
15 Tech Geniuses Living Fabulous, Enviable Lives
11-23-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Julie Bort
Some people know how to live well.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Israel
Iran cautiously backs Gaza truce deal
11-22-2012
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RawStory.com
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gave a qualified welcome Thursday to a truce deal between Israel and Hamas, mediated by Egypt to end eight days of violence that killed six Israelis and 163 Palestinians.
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News Link • Israel
After ceasefire, Israel arrests 55 militants in West Bank
11-22-2012
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RawStory.com
Israeli troops arrested 55 Palestinian “terror operatives” across the West Bank overnight, hours after a truce came into effect in the Gaza Strip, the army said Thursday.
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News Link • China
Four Chinese hostages freed in Colombia
11-22-2012
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RawStory.com
Four Chinese oil company employees held hostage since June 2011, allegedly by Colombia’s FARC rebels, have been freed in southern Colombia, their embassy said Thursday.
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News Link • Energy
Swiss nuclear reactor back up after closure over defect
11-22-2012
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RawStory.com
A reactor at a Swiss nuclear plant that automatically shut down due to a defect was brought back online Thursday evening, the operator said.
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News Link • Animals and Pets
EU ends shark finning, practice of mutilating, leaving sharks to die
11-22-2012
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RawStory.com
The European parliament on Thursday called a definitive halt to shark finning, the long contested practice of fishermen slicing off fins and throwing the live body overboard to drown.
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
1.3 million overdiagnosed for breast cancer in US
11-22-2012
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RawStory.com
More than a million US women have received unnecessary and invasive cancer treatments over the last 30 years, thanks to routine mammograms that detected harmless tumors, scientists said Thursday.
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News Link • Government
Globalist Controllers Revealed (Video)
11-22-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
The Globalist Controllers Revealed in a Gary Franchi interview with Patrick Wood on WHDT.
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Agriculture
Monsanto insurance: USDA tells farmers to pay for avoiding troubles with agro-giant
11-22-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
The United State Department of Agriculture has finalized a report to address concerns from farmers who fear they’ll be next on an ever-expanding list of defendants sued by biotech giants Monsanto, but those worries aren’t about to end.
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News Link • Libya
James Clapper - Why does this man still have a job in the Obama administration?
11-22-2012
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The Political Commentator
With his latest intelligence failure in the Benghazi terrorist attack on the United States, why does James Clapper still have a job in the Obama administration?
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News Link • Science
Third Generation Steel
11-22-2012
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arclein
"Our steel has twice the yield strength, has a very high tensile strength, and is close to three times the fracture toughness over advanced steels currently on the market," said Putatunda.
"In addition, it has improved strength for fatigue and
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News Link • Future Predictions
Peter Diamandis - The best way to predict the future
11-22-2012
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http://www.youtube.com,
Peter Diamandis, Chairman and Co-Founder of Singularity University, discusses the best way to predict the future, and shares his personal philosophies on innovation and the commercial space industry.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Universal Translator at Microsoft
11-22-2012
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arclein
“Of course, there are still likely to be errors in both the English text and the translation into Chinese, and the results can sometimes be humorous” Rashid warns. “Still, the technology has developed to be quite useful.”
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News Link • Science
Mars Mystery
11-22-2012
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arclein
The rover team won't be ready to announce just what SAM found for several weeks, NPR reported, as scientists want to check and double-check the results. Indeed, Grotzinger confirmed to SPACE.com that the news will come out at the fall meeting of the
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News Link • Inventions
Dragonscale Chain maille - 3D printed @shapeways
11-22-2012
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http://www.youtube.com, by stop4stuff
Dragonscale Chainmail, maille without joins.
The 3D printed model in SLS nylon can be bought direct from Shapeways
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News Link • Art
World Championship Blacksmiths' Competition Eagle Eye Class
11-22-2012
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http://www.youtube.com, by hoofwatch
World Championship Blacksmiths' Competition Eagle Eye Class
Competitors had ten seconds to look at a foot then they were given
25 min. to make a 3/4 fullered heartbar.
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News Link • Environment
Artists stage exhibit of trash found on Mount Everest
11-22-2012
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RawStory.com
A group of artists is staging an exhibition of sculptures made from tonnes of trash collected on Mount Everest, highlighting the toll that decades of mountaineering have taken on the world’s highest peak.
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News Link • Entertainment: Television (TV)
Fox News host mocks food stamps: ‘Do you know how fabulous I’d look? I’d be so skinny’
11-22-2012
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David Edwards via RawStory.com
Fox News host Andrea Tantaros on Wednesday seemed to be mocking the millions of hungry Americans who are forced to used food stamps when she suggested that the program would make for a great diet plan.
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News Link • Climate Change
Greenhouse gases rose to record levels in 2011: UN
11-22-2012
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RawStory.com
The volume of greenhouse gases causing global warming rose to a new high last year, the UN World Meteorological Organization said Tuesday, warning it is becoming increasingly unlikely the world can limit rising temperatures to UN-backed targets.
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News Link • Conspiracies
The world won’t end next month, Maya experts insist
11-22-2012
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RawStory.com
Relax doomsayers, the Maya people did not really mark their calendar for the end of the world on December 21, 2012.
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News Link • Climate Change
UN: Goals on curbing greenhouse gases even further out of reach
11-22-2012
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RawStory.com
The gap has widened between countries’ pledges for reducing climate-altering greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 and what is needed to keep planet warming in check, the UN warned.
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News Link • Israel
Hamas and Israel agree to cease fire
11-22-2012
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RawStory.com
A deal to end a deadly week-long conflict between Hamas and Israel in and around the Gaza Strip was agreed on Wednesday, a senior Hamas official told AFP.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Higher retail wages would lift Americans out of poverty, boost economy
11-22-2012
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Kay Steiger via RawStory.com
A new study released by the progressive think tank Demos on Monday estimated that if retail workers were given a living wage, hundreds of thousands of Americans would be lifted out of poverty and the wage boost would significantly bolster the economy
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News Link • Police State
Prosecutors: NYPD officer planned on ‘girl meat’ Thanksgiving meal
11-22-2012
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Arturo Garcia via RawStory.com
The New York City police officer accused of stalking more than 100 women allegedly planned to have “girl meat” as his Thanksgiving meal, prosecutors said during his bail hearing Tuesday.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Teenagers arrested for killing neighbor’s turkey with bow and arrow
11-22-2012
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Arturo Garcia via RawStory.com
Two Florida teenagers were arrested for stealing and killing a family’s pet turkey after admitting they planned to eat it, WALA-TV reported on Wednesday.
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News Link • World News
Union asks suppliers to stop handling goods for Walmart
11-22-2012
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Paul Harris, The Guardian via RawStory.com
An international trade union has asked ship operators handling goods in Walmart‘s global supply chain to raise concerns with the company about how it treats its US workforce.
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News Link • Internet
Oops: Russia bans YouTube over ‘technical mistake’
11-22-2012
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RawStory.com
Web-surfing Russians endured a brief scare Wednesday that the authorities had blocked YouTube after the video-sharing website appeared on a list of banned addresses, in what officials later called a “technical mistake”.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Poll: Americans to spend 3 to 4 percent more on holiday shopping this year
11-22-2012
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RawStory.com
Americans are likely to spend between three and four percent more on their holiday shopping this year than last, in an apparent sign of increased consumer confidence, according to a survey published Wednesday.
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News Link • Environment
More eruptions expected as N. Zealand ‘Lord of the Rings’ volcano disrupts flights
11-22-2012
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RawStory.com
Lingering ash from a volcanic eruption in New Zealand disrupted flights across parts of the North Island on Thursday, as scientists warned the mountain could blow again at any time.
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News Link • Energy
Swiss nuclear reactor shuts down due to defect
11-22-2012
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RawStory.com
A reactor at a Swiss nuclear plant shut down automatically Wednesday due to a defect, the operator said, stressing that the procedure had been completely safe.
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News Link • Police State
Mexican mayor says police involved in deadly kidnap attempt
11-22-2012
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RawStory.com
A Mexican mayor accused officers from his own police force Wednesday of trying to kidnap him in a gang-ordered attack that left eight people dead, including a child and a pregnant woman.
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News Link • World News
Police probe French racist incident in Australia
11-22-2012
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RawStory.com
Police Thursday were investigating a torrent of threatening and racist abuse against a French woman on a Melbourne bus that was caught on camera and went viral on YouTube.
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News Link • Food
Gray Matter: How Not To Deep-Fry A Turkey
11-22-2012
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Theodore Gray via PopSci.com
Deep-frying a turkey can be a delicious Thanksgiving treat"or a deadly conflagration, as our rather dramatic video shows
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News Link • Animals and Pets
Today's Turkeys Are Genetically Barren Compared To Their Wild Ancestors
11-22-2012
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Rebecca Boyle via PopSci.com
We Americans raised about 254 million turkeys this year, and ran up a $9.1 million turkey trade deficit by importing even more birds from Canada, according to the Census Bureau.
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News Link • Conspiracies
The Ongoing Kennedy Casket Mystery - by Jacob G. Hornberger
11-21-2012
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Future of Freedom Foundation
On the 49th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, among the glaring issues that cry out for explanation is the multiple delivery of Kennedy’s body to the Bethesda morgue on the evening of the assassination.
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Opinion • Giving Thanks
All the Thanks!
11-21-2012
Bob Ross
I just wanted to spread some positivity during this hectic time of the year. This article was originally seen in the ezine. We have so much we can be grateful for, and can give thanks every day. What are you thankful for?
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News Link • Israel - Palestine
Stop Pretending the US Is an Uninvolved, Helpless Party in the Israeli Assault on Gaza
11-21-2012
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LewRockwell.Com/GlennGreenwald
The Obama administration's unstinting financial, military and diplomatic support for Israel is a key enabling force in the conflict
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