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Date Sent: 2012-11-30
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, November 30, 2012 PM edition |
Israeli Defense Chief Sounds Ready to Hit Iran, Thanks in Part to Iron Dome
Apps that Keep You from Getting Lost in Translation -- Five New Government-Backed Energy Projects that Stand Out -- There Is A Second Part Of Grover Norquist's Tax Pledge... -- STEVE BALLMER'S NIGHTMARE IS COMING TRUE -- BEN WHITE: The Republicans Have Lost, Taxes Are Going Up -- For the First Time, Obama Official Sketches Out End to War on Terror -- The Tools of Mexico’s Drug Cartels, From Landmines to Monster Trucks -- Twitter Case Exposes the Downside of Grandstanding -- US birth rate falls to record low -- Costco's Dividend Tax Epiphany -- 11-30-12 -- Will Grigg - (MP3 & Video Loaded) -- Greek Islands Were Inhabited 170,000 Years Ago -- Congress looks at doing away with the $1 bill -- More on Sasquatch DNA Study -- The truth about 401(k) plans, not that the truth matters -- The World is Not Elementary School -- Australian
navy ship raided -- Only three major U.S. cities see economic
recovery: study -- After a bashing, BOJ weighs "big bang" war on
deflation -- Peru bans genetically modified foods as US lags
-- Chinese, U.S. soldiers complete disaster relief drill amid Asia
tensions -- ASEAN chief voices alarm at China plan to board ships in
disputed waters -- Bread that lasts for 60 days could cut food waste
-- Internet down across Syria for second day -- Erin Burnett’s
Shouting Match With Julian Assange Shows Hypocrisy On Both Sides -- FAA: Drone Operators Have Zero Privacy Obligations -- CHART:
How The Fiscal Cliff Could Slam Each Of 50 States -- The Worst News
We've Heard Out Of China In Weeks -- Military's 'Eye Tracking
System' May Be Key To Eliminating 'Zombie' Product Pack -- Not
black-and-white: The chess game behind the recent Gaza-Israel war -- Assange to RT: Entire nations intercepted online, key turned to
totalitarian rule -- Syria jets bombard rebel targets on
airport road -- Hamas says Gaza conflict, U.N. recognition go
together -- Eurozone crisis live: German parliament approves
Greek deal -- WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning gives
evidence for first time -- Greenland and Antarctica 'have lost four
trillion tons of ice' in 20 years -- Obama Wants State-Sponsored
Murder Legalized -- Israel's Genocidal War on Palestine
AZ: Arizona Breakfast Club tomorrow on the
political activist future; Christmas Party at the
Hancock's Saturday Dec 8th, 2012 6:30 p.m. til ???; 2012
Arizona Activist Awards, Patriot Roast & Fundraiser Saturday
December 15th 6:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Scott Beiser needs his friends!!!!
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News Link • Israel
Israeli Defense Chief Sounds Ready to Hit Iran, Thanks in Part to Iron Dome
11-30-2012
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Wired.com
Israel’s retiring defense chief thinks Iran needs to be “coerced” in 2013 from building an atom bomb, despite any U.S. hopes that sanctions will bring Tehran to the negotiating table.
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News Link • Events: Arizona
Christmas Party at the Hancock's Saturday Dec 8th, 2012 6:30 p.m. til ???
11-27-2012
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www.meetup.com/RonPaulPhoenix
It's that time of year again for a holiday party - it has been a very busy year for all of us, so come and share in the fun and relaxation we all need - We will be raffling off a brand new Kindle Fire ($5/ticket) - Bring extra lawn chairs if you have
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Augmented Light Bulb Turns a Desk Into a Touch Screen
11-30-2012
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Technologyreview.com
A computer that can be screwed into a light socket can project interactive images onto any nearby surface.
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News Link • Energy
Five New Government-Backed Energy Projects that Stand Out
11-30-2012
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Technologyreview.com
Sixty-six new energy research projects were announced on Wednesday. Here are some interesting ones.
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News Link • Internet
The Cleverest Business Model in Online Education
11-30-2012
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Technologyreview.com
A startup called Duolingo taps the power of crowds to make learning a language free.
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
There Is A Second Part Of Grover Norquist's Tax Pledge...
11-30-2012
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Business Insider
As the GOP grapples with the new post-election reality of budget negotiations, Republicans have started to distance themselves from Americans For Tax Reform founder Grover Norquist, the anti-tax crusader behind the GOP's "No New Taxes" pledge.
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News Link • World News
STEVE BALLMER'S NIGHTMARE IS COMING TRUE
11-30-2012
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Business Insider
Almost one year ago today, we laid out the nightmare scenario for Microsoft that could lead to its business collapsing.
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Five Christmas Presents That Could Change Your Life
11-30-2012
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Business Insider
A chair with no back; a helmet that’s not really there; a ‘Star Trek’-style replicator. The Christmas gifts of the future are already here.
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
BEN WHITE: The Republicans Have Lost, Taxes Are Going Up
11-30-2012
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Business Insider
A major story in Friday's New York Times confirmed something that most Americans understand, which is that today's tax rates are low compared with tax rates in the early 1980s.
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News Link • Obama Administration
For the First Time, Obama Official Sketches Out End to War on Terror
11-30-2012
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Wired.com
Neither the George W. Bush nor Barack Obama White House ever laid out a vision for what an end to the war on terrorism would actually look like.
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News Link • Internet
At Long Last, iTunes 11 Is Available " And We Dig It
11-30-2012
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Wired.com
So long, iTunes 10. Apple begins rolling out the 11th iteration of its iTunes media player and store today, and we’re digging the redesigned interface, improved search, ability to play content straight from iCloud and sync playback across devices.
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News Link • Technology: Software
New Music Software StageLight Could Be ‘GarageBand for PCs’
11-30-2012
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Wired.com
As Open Labs developed new music software StageLight, Linkin Park's Mike Shinoda weighed in with insights gained from his design background as well as his years of experience onstage and in the studio.
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News Link • Drug War
The Tools of Mexico’s Drug Cartels, From Landmines to Monster Trucks
11-30-2012
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Wired.com
It can be a little deceiving to think of Mexico's drug cartels as simply gangsters. Instead, they've blurred boundaries between organized crime and quasi-military insurgents, seized swathes of territory and become some of the world's most dangerous c
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News Link • Internet
Twitter Case Exposes the Downside of Grandstanding
11-30-2012
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Wired.com
Twitter always fancied itself a more benevolent, open startup than most. It referred to its “ecosystem” rather than its customers and, as recently as this January, referred to itself as “an information utility” rather than a mere social network.
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Opinion • Obama Administration
Costco's Dividend Tax Epiphany
11-30-2012
Menckens Ghost
When President Obama needed a business executive to come to his campaign defense, Jim Sinegal was there. The Costco co-founder, director and former CEO even made a prime-time speech at the Democratic Party convention in Charlotte
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Radio/TV Show • Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock - Radio
Host:
Ernest Hancock
11-30-12 -- Will Grigg - (MP3 & Video Loaded)
Will Grigg (award-winning investigative journalist, writer, producer) on the status of civil liberties in America, good cop vs. bad cop, freedom good...government bad
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Cell Nuclear Reprogramming moves Forward
11-30-2012
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arclein
showing that histone H3.3 deposited by the histone-interacting protein HIRA is a key step in reverting nuclei to a pluripotent type, capable of being any one of many cell types.
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News Link • Archaeology
Greek Islands Were Inhabited 170,000 Years Ago
11-30-2012
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arclein
"On a lot of Mediterranean islands, you have these amazing remains from classical antiquity to study, so for many years people didn't even look for older sites," said archaeologist Alan Simmons at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas.
Howeve
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
MS Cured?
11-30-2012
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arclein
biodegradable nanoparticle turns out to be the perfect vehicle to stealthily deliver an antigen that tricks the immune system into stopping its attack on myelin and halt a model of relapsing remitting multiple sclerosis (MS) in mice, according to ne
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robert klein
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Congress looks at doing away with the $1 bill
11-30-2012
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AP
American consumers have shown about as much appetite for the $1 coin as kids do their spinach. They may not know what's best for them, either. Congressional auditors say doing away with dollar bills entirely and replacing them with
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Anthropology
More on Sasquatch DNA Study
11-30-2012
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arclein
"Well, it came to me, I didn't go after it, that's for sure," Ketchum said of the evidence of Bigfoot's existence in an exclusive interview with The Huffington Post. "I did not believe in these creatures. But my lab did a lot of animal testing,
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robert klein
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News Link • Israel
The World is Not Elementary School
11-28-2012
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Scratch Group
This animation vid was created in response to the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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J E Andreasen
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
U.S. Morning Call: Comments on 'Fiscal Cliff' swing markets
11-30-2012
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Reuters
U.S. stock futures are pointing to a slightly higher open as the President and Congressional Republicans tackle the fiscal cliff.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • World News
Australian navy ship raided
11-30-2012
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Reuters
Intruders escape with weapons in a raid on an Australian navy vessel.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Only three major U.S. cities see economic recovery: study
11-30-2012
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Reuters
Retailers moving into old downtown buildings, an abundance of freshly planted greenspaces, and a stream of new jobs in Knoxville, Tennessee, are all signs to Mayor Madeline Rogero that for the last year prosperity has been blooming in her city.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - International
After a bashing, BOJ weighs "big bang" war on deflation
11-30-2012
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Reuters
Bank of Japan Governor Masaaki Shirakawa was feeling the heat in February when he was summoned to parliament five times to explain what he planned to do to get Japan out of its deflation doldrums.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Food
Peru bans genetically modified foods as US lags
11-28-2012
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Stephanie Whiteside at current.com
When other countries are taking the step to ban GMO crops outright, the U.S. remains resistant to even allowing consumers to know if they are consuming food made with genetically modified ingredients. America is embracing the cultivation of GMO crops
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • China
Chinese, U.S. soldiers complete disaster relief drill amid Asia tensions
11-30-2012
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Reuters
Chinese and American soldiers finished a week-long disaster rescue exercise on Friday, furthering military ties between the two countries even as military tensions rise between China and U.S. military allies in the Pacific region.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • China
ASEAN chief voices alarm at China plan to board ships in disputed waters
11-30-2012
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Reuters
China's plan to board and search ships that illegally enter what it considers its territory in the disputed South China Sea could spark naval clashes and hurt the region's economy, Southeast Asia's top diplomat warned on Friday.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Food
Bread that lasts for 60 days could cut food waste
11-30-2012
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bbc.co.uk
The bread is zapped in a sophisticated microwave array which kills the spores that cause the problem.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Syria
Internet down across Syria for second day
11-30-2012
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Prison Planet
Rami Abdel Rahman, Observatory director, said in some areas it was still possible to access the internet “but with great difficulty”.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
Erin Burnett’s Shouting Match With Julian Assange Shows Hypocrisy On Both Sides
11-30-2012
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Prison Planet
Erin Burnett of CNN put Julian Assange “Out Front” for an 11-minute interview Nov. 28, and the shouting match that concluded the segment had very little to do with the subject of the interview.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Privacy Rights
FAA: Drone Operators Have Zero Privacy Obligations
11-30-2012
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Prison Planet
In a response to questions from lawmakers, the Federal Aviation Authority admitted that surveillance drone operators have zero privacy obligations.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
SOURCES CONFIRM: A New Xbox Is Coming Next Year
11-30-2012
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Business Insider
Microsoft Corp. will release the next version of its Xbox video-game machine, the top-selling console, in time for the holidays next year, according to people familiar with the company’s plans.
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News Link • China
The Worst News We've Heard Out Of China In Weeks
11-30-2012
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Business Insider
As China's growing economy shift to being consumer-driven from being export-driven, companies exposed to discretionary spending have boomed.
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News Link • Military
Military's 'Eye Tracking System' May Be Key To Eliminating 'Zombie' Product Pack
11-30-2012
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Business Insider
Computer interfaces: The ability to determine the location of a person's gaze is opening up an enormous range of new applications.
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News Link • Israel - Palestine
Not black-and-white: The chess game behind the recent Gaza-Israel war
11-30-2012
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RT.com
The recent hostilities between the Gaza Strip and Israel have to be viewed in context of a broader geopolitical chessboard. The events in Gaza are tied to Syria and the US’s regional maneuvers against Iran and its regional alliance system.
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Assange to RT: Entire nations intercepted online, key turned to totalitarian rule
11-30-2012
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RT.com
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says all the necessary physical infrastructure for absolute totalitarianism through the internet is ready. He told RT that the question now is whether the turnkey process that already started will go all the way.
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News Link • Syria
Syria jets bombard rebel targets on airport road
11-30-2012
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Reuters
Syrian air force jets bombarded rebel targets on Friday close to the Damascus airport road and a regional airline said the violence had halted international flights to the capital.
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News Link • Police State
Congress Askes The FAA To Expand Drone Use ‘Inside’ The U.S. (Video)
11-30-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Congress has asked the Federal Aviation Administration to find a safe way to expand the use of drones in the U.S.
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News Link • Police State
CIA-Sponsored Trolls Monitor Internet & Interact With Users to Discredit Factual Information
11-30-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
In July of this year it became apparent through a flood of mainstream media reports that the National Security Agency (NSA) was “desperate to hire new hacking talent to protect the nation’s critical infrastructure” yet the NSA is notorious for its su
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News Link • Palestine -- Israel
Hamas says Gaza conflict, U.N. recognition go together
11-30-2012
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Reuters
Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal said the de facto recognition of a sovereign Palestinian state won by his rival Mahmoud Abbas should be seen alongside Gaza's latest conflict with Israel as a single, bold strategy that could empower all Palestinians.
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News Link • European Union
Eurozone crisis live: German parliament approves Greek deal
11-30-2012
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The Guardian
A new opinion poll suggests that the German people are rather unenthusiastic about the Greek aid package (which their elected representatives just approved).
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News Link • Whistleblowers
WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning gives evidence for first time
11-30-2012
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The Guardian
Manning takes stand at pre-trial hearing and speaks at length about his treatment by the military following his arrest in 2010
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News Link • Environment
Greenland and Antarctica 'have lost four trillion tonnes of ice' in 20 years
11-30-2012
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guardian.co.uk
• Landmark study by global team of scientists published
• Finds melting polar ice has led to 11mm rise in sea level
• Greenland losing ice five times faster than early 1990s
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News Link • World News
Glenn Greenwald on The Global Battlefield Idea
11-29-2012
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www.prisonplanet.com
...to declare the entire world a battlefield in the war on terror on the theory that traditional battles no longer happen is to basically say that the powers that I just described, that are unconstrained, that used to be confined to very identifiable
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Ron Paul’s exit interview
11-28-2012
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Washington Post
The retiring congressman gives his list of the most damaging special interests in Washington and explains why he didn’t run as an independent for president in 2012.
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
End the Pretense that Government Schools and Prisons Are Different - by William Grigg
11-28-2012
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Lew Rockwell blog
Students Inmates at an Arizona high school recently were confined to their classrooms, then led in small groups to another room where they were forced to line up against a wall and be searched with the help of drug-sniffing dogs.
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
TSA Claims It Is Above Congressional Oversight
11-28-2012
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prisonplanet.com
The TSA has refused to attend a House Transportation hearing this week, with agency head John Pistole personally refusing to appear and declaring that the Congressional Committee has “no jurisdiction over the TSA”.
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