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Date Sent: 2012-07-27
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, July 27, 2012 |
Turkey to strike PKK fighters inside Syria -- German tax authorities raid homes of suspected evaders
Raul Castro: Cuba willing to sit down with US -- UN chief makes 11th hour plea on arms treaty -- Mayor Ed Lee committed to stop and frisk -- U.S. braces for make-or-break economic data -- Apple pitches gadget security to hacker crowd -- Deals to Keep Generic Drugs Off Market Get a Court Rebuff -- Justice Department officials violated nepotism rules, new report says -- Pakistan recounts in new report how doctor helped U.S. in bin Laden operation -- Ninety arrested in nationwide synthetic drug crackdown -- WikiLeaks: Famous Spanish judge to defend Assange against 'American scheme' -- 'Space Jumping' Skydiver Survives 18 Mile Freefall -- Spain at 7% Stresses Inadequacies of Rescue Options: Euro Credit -- The Latest Sign Of Trouble In The Chinese Economy -- Here's How Most Millionaires Get Rich -- A Day In The Life Of Elon Musk, The Most Inspiring Entrepreneur In The World -- Here's How Americans REALLY Feel About Gun Control -- Fed Impatient With Economy; Looks to New Stimulus ... Maybe Soon
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News Link • Syria
Turkey warns it would strike PKK fighters inside Syria
07-26-2012
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AFP
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has accused Syria of giving Kurdish rebels a free hand in its north and warned that Ankara would not hesitate to strike.
"In the north, it (President Bashar al-Assad's regime) has allotted five provinces
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News Link • European Union
German tax authorities raiding homes of ‘suspected’ evaders
07-26-2012
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http://www.sovereignman.com,Simon Black
Late last night I arrived to Brussels. As the capital of the European Union, Brussels is Europe’s political mother ship, the home base of the continent’s good idea factory.
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News Link • OLYMPICS London Summer 2012
U.S. Olympic shooters say don’t link us to Colorado theater horror
07-26-2012
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The Raw Story.com
US Olympic shooting competitors hope those watching the London Games do not link their firearm sports with the shooter who killed 12 people and wounded 58 others at an American theatre last week.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Florida man kills door-to-door salesman: I’ll kill anybody that steps on my property
07-26-2012
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Eric W. Dolan via The Raw Story.com
A man in Cape Coral, Florida on Wednesday was arrested for shooting and killing an unarmed door-to-door salesman on his property.
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News Link • Cuba
Raul Castro: Cuba willing to sit down with US
07-26-2012
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AP
Cuban President Raul Castro said Thursday that his government is willing to mend fences with bitter Cold War foe the United States and sit down to discuss anything, as long as it is a conversation between equals.
At the end of a Revolution Day ce
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News Link • Gun Rights
UN chief makes 11th hour plea on arms treaty
07-26-2012
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The Raw Story.com
UN chief Ban Ki-moon made a last-ditch effort Thursday to break the deadlock over a landmark treaty to regulate the conventional arms trade, urging countries to “show flexibility.”
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Mayor Ed Lee committed to stop and frisk
07-26-2012
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San Francisco Chronicle
Mayor Ed Lee remains resolute in implementing some form of a stop-and-frisk program " even if it’s not called that " in the wake of the mass shooting in Colo., and a trip to Philadelphia, which has its own stop-and-frisk program.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
U.S. braces for make-or-break economic data
07-26-2012
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The Raw Story.com
The United States is bracing for growth figures that will set the tone for the last 100 days of the race to the White House and help decide if the Fed pulls the trigger on more economic stimulus.
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News Link • Healthcare Industry
Deals to Keep Generic Drugs Off Market Get a Court Rebuff
07-26-2012
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New York Times
It would seem a business executive’s dream: legally pay a competitor to keep its product off the market for years. Generic drug makers and big-name pharmaceutical companies have been winning court rulings that allowed it.
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News Link • Corruption
Justice Department officials violated nepotism rules, new report says
07-26-2012
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Washington Post
Eight Justice Department officials tried to get their children and other relatives hired at the department in violation of laws and regulations, according to a report released Thursday by the department’s inspector general.
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News Link • World News
London mayor calls out Romney in front of 100,000 at Olympic torch lighting
07-26-2012
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David Edwards via The Raw Story.com
London Mayor Boris Johnson shamed presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney in front of a crowd of 100,000 people at the Olympic torch lighting on Thursday.
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Pakistan recounts in new report how doctor helped U.S. in bin Laden operation
07-26-2012
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Washington Post
The Pakistani doctor who aided the CIA’s hunt for Osama bin Laden would meet his handlers on Saturdays in Islamabad. They’d pick him up at certain gas stations, then make him lie in the back seat, hidden under a blanket, before taking him to be debri
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News Link • Anthropology
Neanderthal-type species once roamed Africa, DNA shows
07-26-2012
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Washington Post
The human family tree just got another " mysterious " branch, an African “sister species” to the heavy-browed Neanderthals that once roamed Europe.
While no fossilized bones have been found from these enigmatic people, they did leave a calling car
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News Link • Drug War
Ninety arrested in nationwide synthetic drug crackdown
07-26-2012
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Reuters
Federal agents arrested more than 90 people and seized about 5 million packets of synthetic drugs - known on the street as "bath salts," "K2" and "Spice" - in the first U.S. nationwide crackdown on "designer drugs," the Drug Enforcement Administratio
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Cassini Spacecraft Buzzes Saturn Moon Titan to See Methane Lake
07-26-2012
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Space
NASA's Cassini probe zipped by Saturn's largest moon Titan in a close flyby to search for a lake filled with liquid methane. The Cassini spacecraft flew within 629 miles of Titan to "look for a glint of sunlight reflecting off a methane lake,"
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News Link • Whistleblowers
WikiLeaks: Famous Spanish judge to defend Assange against 'American scheme'
07-26-2012
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Christian Science Monitor
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange hired human rights champion and former Spanish judge Baltazar Garzón to fight what he fears is an American scheme to eventually try him for revealing a stash of secret documents.
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News Link • Events: New Mexico
'Space Jumping' Skydiver Survives 18 Mile Freefall
07-26-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Mike Wall
A daredevil leapt from a balloon more than 18 miles above the Earth today (July 25), moving one step closer to a so-called "space jump" that would set the record for the world's highest skydive.
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News Link • Economy - International
Spain at 7% Stresses Inadequacies of Rescue Options: Euro Credit
07-26-2012
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www.businessweek.com
...policy makers are hamstrung in how to rescue an economy twice the combined size of Greece, Ireland and Portugal.
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News Link • Biology, Botany and Zoology
Decoding the secrets of balance
07-26-2012
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http://www.bio-medicine.org, Katherine Gombay
If you have ever looked over the edge of a cliff and felt dizzy, you understand the challenges faced by people who suffer from symptoms of vestibular dysfunction such as vertigo and dizziness.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Undead: The Rabies Virus Remains a Medical Mystery
07-26-2012
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By Monica Murphy and Bill Wasik
...Precious Reynolds bounds from the elevator to the entrance of the pediatric intensive-care unit. She fidgets impatiently as she waits to be buzzed in, eager to return to the clinic where, by the ironclad expectations of 2,000 years of medicine, sh
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News Link • China
The Latest Sign Of Trouble In The Chinese Economy
07-26-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Also Sprach
Chongqing Iron and Steel Company is said to have defaulted on some of its debt in the past few years, totalling to some RMB3.6 billion, once again highlighting the difficulties steelmakers are facing amid slowing demand and over-capacity.
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News Link • How To
Here's How Most Millionaires Get Rich
07-26-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Chad Brooks
The majority of today's millionaires are self-made and weren't born into their wealth, new research shows.
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News Link • Entrepreneurship
A Day In The Life Of Elon Musk, The Most Inspiring Entrepreneur In The World
07-26-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Jay Yarow
Elon Musk is the most inspiring entrepreneur in the world right now.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Here's How Americans REALLY Feel About Gun Control
07-26-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Brett LoGiurato
The gun-control debate has been reignited in some circles after the horrific massacre in a Colorado movie theater last Friday, but it won't likely be a campaign issue in the 2012 presidential election.
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News Link • Technology: Software
IT'S OFFICIAL: Apple Will Release Mountain Lion On Wednesday
07-26-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Dylan Love
The next operating system update from Apple will come out on Wednesday, as revealed in the company's earnings call.
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
What If Public Schools Were Abolished?
07-26-2012
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http://www.mises.org, by Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.
In American culture, public schools are praised in public and criticized in private, which is roughly the opposite of how we tend to treat large-scale enterprises like Walmart.
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News Link • History
01 History So It Doesn't Repeat: World In Crisis with Chengiah Ragaven and Tom Willcutts
07-26-2012
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YouTube.com
Episode 01: World In Crisis / (change video quality to see in 1080p HD)
Featuring: Prof. Chengiah Ragaven, Johannesburg, South Africa [Ph.D (ABD) (McGill), Ph.D (Cand.)(Cambridge), MA.(Oxford), MA.(Sussex), MA. (UKZN), B.Ed (Univ. London)
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News Link • Conspiracies
07-24-12 T&H Casual Cafe: Cybernetics Technocracy and Agenda 21 (continued)
07-26-2012
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YouTube.com
T&H Casual Cafe is an exclusive service provided only subscribers of the T&H research community.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Today on LewRockwell.com - Thursday July 26th 2012
07-26-2012
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http://www.lewrockwell.com/
Parents Are Yanking Their Kids Out of Government Schools - Let the Gold Mania Begin! - Top 10 Reasons To Avoid Your Doctor - De-Bloomberg the City of New York
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News Link • Philosophy: Libertarianism
Progressives Try to Purge Libertarians from Occupy New Hampshire
07-26-2012
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reason.com
As Free Staters and Occupy NH clash, the Occupy segment has taken an ironic stance to purge libertarians from their group. By declaring Occupy NH a corporation, they are trying to prevent gun owners from participating.
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News Link • Economic Stimulus
Piranha Tank: Financial Crime Rules the World
07-26-12
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Silver Underground
Financial markets have exploded with financial crime since 2009 as an unintended consequence of the moral hazard engendered by the “too big to fail” doctrine of Western governments and monetary authorities. Since “too big to fail” became the norm, t
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News Link • Media: Radio
Scott Horton Radio Show
07-26-2012
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ScottHortonShow.Com
I’ll still be doing the radio show for the Liberty Radio Network Monday-Friday from 12-3 eastern time, KPFK Friday nights in L.A. and KUCR in Riverside on Sundays. All the archives will still run at ScottHortonShow.com until the new site is up and ru
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News Link • Climate Change
NASA warns 97 percent of Greenland ice sheet surface melted in four days
07-25-2012
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Suzanne Goldenberg, The Guardian
The Greenland ice sheet melted at a faster rate this month than at any other time in recorded history, with virtually the entire ice sheet showing signs of thaw.
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News Link • Torture
Chicago settles police torture case, avoids Daley deposition
07-25-2012
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Chicago Tribune
Aldermen recommended paying more than $7 million to 2 men who were tortured by former Police Cmdr. John Burge, a move that means former Mayor Richard Daley will not be deposed about what he knew about one of the cases.
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News Link • Food
Drought will bring about higher food prices, U.S. warns
07-25-2012
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Suzanne Goldenberg, The Guardian
The US government acknowledged for the first time on Wednesday that the drought now covering two-thirds of the country will lead to significantly higher food prices.
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News Link • Conspiracies
Senate committee approves provision to plug intelligence leaks
07-25-2012
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Washington Post
Lawmakers who oversee the nation’s spy agencies moved to curb leaks of classified information by approving legislation that would further restrict intelligence officials’ ability to talk to news organizations or work for them after leaving their gove
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News Link • Police State
Anaheim, CA Police State!
07-25+2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
This is a clip from Timcast’s live stream which was up from about 8pm to 12:00am yesterday. Diane posted the live stream on Occupy America last night, but there’s one particular highlight I want to point out as evidence that there will be no peace in
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News Link • Internet
Justice Department trains prosecutors to combat cyber espionage
07-25-2012
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Washington Post
One danger is from terrorists plotting full-scale cyber attacks and the other comes from hackers, cyber criminals and foreign governments stealing trade secrets from the private sector and sensitive classified information from the military and govern
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News Link • Internet
Skype makes chats and user data more available to police
07-25-2012
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Washington Post
Skype, the online phone service long favored by political dissidents, criminals and others eager to communicate beyond the reach of governments, has expanded its cooperation with law enforcement authorities to make online chats and other user informa
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News Link • Police State
Dallas: More Angry Citizens Confront Police
July 25, 2012
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Infowars.com
Following the police riot in Anaheim, California, after the cops killed an unarmed man, citizens in Dallas, Texas, confronted police following the shooting of another unarmed man. Police responded to the outpouring in standard paramilitary fashion.
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News Link • Federal Reserve
‘Audit the Fed’ bill passes in the House with bipartisan support
07-25-2012
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www.washingtonpost.com
The bill passed 327 to 98; all but one Republican and 89 Democrats voted yes. The bill will be considered under the suspension of normal House rules, meaning it required at least a two-thirds majority to pass.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Video: Ron Paul questioning Timothy Geithner 7/25/12
07-25-2012
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www.c-spanvideo.org
Financial Stability Oversight Council Report - Jul 25, 2012 - Representative Ron Paul questions Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner about the similarity betwern the recent LIBOR fraud and the Federal Reserve Bank manipulating interest rates. Rep. Pau
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News Link • Drug War
Mexican official: CIA 'manages' drug trade
07-25-2012
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al Jazeera
The US Central Intelligence Agency and other international security forces "don't fight drug traffickers", a spokesman for the Chihuahua state government in northern Mexico has told Al Jazeera, instead "they try to manage the drug trade".
Allegati
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News Link • Surveillance
Spooky: How NSA’s Surveillance Algorithms See Into Your Life
07-25-2012
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In a motion filed today (July 2), the three former intelligence analysts confirm that the NSA has, or is in the process of obtaining, the capability to seize and store most electronic communications passing through its U.S. intercept centers, such as
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News Link • Syria
Al-Qaeda Infiltrating Syrian Opposition, With US Support
07-25-2012
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AntiWar
Al-Qaeda militants and other Sunni extremists are becoming a greater part of the conflict in Syria, just as the US officially announced it was abandoning any diplomatic approach in favor of toppling the regime through proxy rebel groups.
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Opinion • Whistleblowers
Ray McGovern: My Take
Harassing the Whistleblowers
07-25-2012
Ray McGovern
Controversy generated by recent reporting by Eric Lichtblau and Scott Shane of the New York Times about Food and Drug Administration spying on its doctors and scientists focuses on the blatant invasions of privacy, with Sen. Charles Grassley, R- Iowa
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Opinion • Iran
Ray McGovern: My Take
Will Downing St. Memo Recur on Iran?
07-25-2012
Ray McGovern
Recent remarks by Sir John Sawers, who heads Britain’s MI6 (the Secret Intelligence Service that is Britain’s CIA counterpart), leave us wondering if Sawers is preparing to “fix” intelligence on Iran, as his immediate predecessor, Sir John Scarlett,
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News Link • Gun Rights
...Would Have Arrested Anyone Who Stopped the Batman Massacre With a Concealed Weapon
07-25-2012
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http://lewrockwell.com, by Mike Adams
Two days ago I asked the commonsense question, "Why didn't anyone fight back against James Holmes, the shooter who shot so many people in the Batman movie theater?"
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Then, Who DID Build It, Mr. President? - by Anthony Gregory
07-25-2012
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Huffington Post
Conservatives have had a field day over Obama's comments in Roanoke, Virginia, where the president said: If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. Somebody helped to create this American system
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News Link • China
How America Lost Canada To The Chinese
07-25-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Stan Abrams
After 1949 when the Communists defeated the Nationalists for control of China, the mournful refrain from Washington, D.C. was “Who Lost China?”
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Opinion • Corruption
“The Fear Of God Is Not In This Place”
07-25-2012
Chuck Baldwin
What in the world has happened to America? How has it come to this? The America that we currently see is unrecognizable from the America many of us grew up in. The America that many oppressed people risked their lives to escape to now more resembles
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News Link • Police State
N.J. Terrorist Hideout Actually NYPD Operation Outside Their Jurisdiction
07/25/2012
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AP
On June 2, 2009, an apartment superintendent in New Brunswick, N.J., stumbled upon what he thought was a terrorist hideout and called 911. It was really an NYPD operation to conduct surveillance well outside its jurisdiction. (July 25)
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News Link • Gun Rights
MICHAEL BLOOMBERG: Police Officers Should Go On Strike If There Are No Gun Reforms
07-25-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Brett LoGiurato
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has been renewing his push for more restrictive measures on gun ownership in the wake of the Aurora, Colorado, movie theater shooting last Friday, and last night he questioned why police officers wouldn't go on s
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News Link • Economy - International
The Moment When Everyone Realizes The Money Isn't There In Europe
07-25-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, James Kunstler
Europe is giving new meaning to the term "bootstrapping," the age-old (virtuous) idea of picking oneself up off the floor after some blow or reversal of fortune has laid you low.
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News Link • European Union
The Sovereign Default Dominos Are Falling In Europe
07-25-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, David Kotok
Europe appears to be dismembering. We see Spanish yields breaking well above 7%. The Spanish government bond market is essentially closed to private investors.
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