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Date Sent: 2012-08-25
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Saturday, August 25, 2012 |
US sends aircraft carrier back to Gulf to face Iran, Syria -- CIA "Manages" Drug Trade, DEA says
I Told You the War on Drugs Was Expanding -- Courtney Bisbee: Part of the Sorry Legacy of Andrew Thomas --
Decision by 2 Officers to Open Fire in Busy Midtown Leaves Bystanders
Wounded -- 2 U.S. government workers shot by Mexican Federales -- 19
people shot in one night of attacks in Chicago -- Romney snooping on Americans’ private data to sniff out potential donors -- Greenpeace activists raid Russian oil tanker -- How Armstrong Could ‘Get Away With Stuff With Everybody Looking’ -- Jury Rules Samsung Violated Apple Patents, Owes $1 Billion -- Electronic Sutures Can Check For Infections and Even Help Wounds Heal --
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News August 26, 2012 Edition --
Photographed doc lays out Assange police tactics -- ...State’s Attorney
says “No charges for FOID holders merely exercising 2nd Amendment
rights” -- Federal Reserve minutes: Many members want action ‘fairly soon’ to boost economy -- The FEMA Faceoff: Truth as an Urban Legend -- I Can't Vote For A
Fiscal Conservative Without Also Supporting Religious Aggressives --
Slumping Commercial Real Estate Sales Are Latest Flashing Red
Non-Recovery Indicator
Libertarian write-in candidates need your ink
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News Link • Iran
U.S. sends aircraft carrier back to Gulf to face Iran, Syria
08-24-2012
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Reuters
The US Navy is cutting short home leave for the crew of one of its aircraft carriers and sending them back to the Middle East next week to counter any threat from Iran. Defence Secretary Leon Panetta told sailors aboard the USS Stennis they were need
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
CIA “Manages” Drug Trade, Mexican Official Says
08-24-2012
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InfoWars
Some of the most prominent officials to level charges of CIA drug trafficking include the former head of the DEA, Robert Bonner. who accused the CIA of unlawfully importing a ton of cocaine into the US in collaboration with the Venezuelan government.
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News Link • Drug War
I Told You the War on Drugs Was Expanding
08-24-2012
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Lew Rockwell blog
President Obama signed legislation that bans bath salts with the support of most Republicans in Congress. The new law also bans synthetic marijuana. Possession or sale of bath salts or synthetic marijuana is punishable up to 20 years in prison.
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Courtney Bisbee: Part of the Sorry Legacy of Andrew Thomas
08-24-2012
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The Agitator
Thomas was disbarred for bringing a criminal case into a political fight between Sheriff Joe Arpaio and people in the courthouse when the conduct of his staff in the wrongful conviction of Courtney Bisbee should have been enough to have a number of p
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Decision by 2 Officers to Open Fire in Busy Midtown Leaves Bystanders Wounded
08-24-2012
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New York Times
As the two officers confronted a gunman in front of the Empire State Building on a busy Friday morning, they had to make a snap decision: Do they open fire in the middle of Midtown? Of course they do...note the giunman didn't get a chance to fire.
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News Link • Mexican United States Relations
2 U.S. government workers shot by Mexican Federales
08-24-2012
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Washington Post
Two U.S. government employees were wounded in a hail of gunfire south of Mexico City on Friday in what law enforcement officials described as a wild shooting spree that involved Mexican federal police.
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News Link • Energy
Turning garbage into sugar for fuel
08-24-2012
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Martin LaMonica via TechnologyReview.com
Waste Management signs a deal with Renmatix to explore making fuel and high-value chemicals from urban waste.
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News Link • Energy
Cable-Shaped Batteries with a Twist
08-24-2012
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Katherine Bourzac via TechnologyReview.com
LG Chem's flexible, knottable batteries could be integrated into textiles and headphone cords.
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News Link • Police State
19 people shot in one night of attacks in Chicago
08-24-2012
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Arturo Garcia via The RawStory.com
The south and west sides of Chicago were hit with a rash of shootings Thursday night, with 19 people hit and 13 wounded in seven separate incidents, including eight in one 30-minute period.
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Romney snooping on Americans’ private data to sniff out potential donors
08-24-2012
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Stephen C. Webster via The RawStory.com
In hopes of identifying untapped Republican donors, presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney has secretly employed a data-mining firm based in Fort Worth, Texas to crunch thousands of minute
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News Link • Activism
Greenpeace activists raid Russian oil tanker
08-24-2012
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The RawStory.com
Greenpeace activists on Friday raided an Arctic oil rig owned by Russian group Gazprom that next year will controversially pioneercommercial drilling in one of the world’s last pristine reserves.
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
Armstrong Throws in the Towel, Loses Titles to Doping Allegations
08-24-2012
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Chuck Squatriglia via WIRED.com
Lance Armstrong, one of the world’s most celebrated cyclists and a hero to millions of cancer survivors, finally surrendered a war of attrition with doping police that has cost him his seven Tour de France titles and an Olympic bronze medal.
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News Link • Entertainment: Sports
How Armstrong Could ‘Get Away With Stuff With Everybody Looking’
08-24-2012
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Brian Alexander via WIRED.com
Seven years ago, Don Catlin, then head of the UCLA Olympic Analytical Laboratory and the man who, for all practical purposes, created sports drug testing in the United States, told me “you can get away with stuff with everybody looking right at you.”
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Jury Rules Samsung Violated Apple Patents, Owes $1 Billion
08-24-2012
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Christina Bonnington via WIRED.com
Samsung owes Apple more than $1 billion in damages for violating Apple hardware and software patents, a California jury ruled on Friday. The jury found that Samsung infringed upon Apple patents having to do with physical design and user interfaces
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News Link • Adult Stem Cell Technology
Scientists Turn Adult Red Blood Cells Into Embryonic Stem Cells
08-24-2012
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Colin Lecher via PopSci.com
Despite the ethical and political differences they incite, stem cells are still a miraculous medicine, potentially able to change into whatever a sick body needs them to be.
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News Link • Entertainment: Sports
Paralympic Athletes Try to Get a Performance Boost By Hurting Themselves
08-24-2012
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Colin Lecher via PopSci.com
We've heard of odd rules put in place (marijuana use comes to mind) to keep Olympians and Paralympians from gaining an unfair advantage, but this is odd and more than a little scary:
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Electronic Sutures Can Check For Infections and Even Help Wounds Heal
08-24-2012
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Colin Lecher via PopSci.com
Stitches deserve a makeover. We've been using them in some form for thousands of years. So while they've stood the test of time, a researcher from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is wrestling surgical sutures into the future
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Opinion • Humor
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
August 26, 2012 Edition
08-24-2012
John Semmens
Dems Reject Cardinal's Offer
The Obama campaign rejected an offer from Cardinal Timothy Dolan to deliver a prayer at the Democratic National Convention in September. As head of the Archdiocese of New York and president of the Conference of Catholi
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Photographed doc lays out Assange police tactics
08-24-2012
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AP
A confidential document photographed by Britain's Press Association news agency lays out Scotland Yard's simple strategy for dealing with Julian Assange should he ever try to leave Ecuador's Embassy in London.
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News Link • Constitution
...State’s Attorney says “No charges for FOID holders merely exercising 2nd Amendment rights”
08-24-2012
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http://www.gunssavelife.com
.... decision not to prosecute Firearm Owner Identification Card holders who are arrested for merely possessing a concealed weapon in violation of Illinois’ prohibition on law-abiding residents carrying the means with which to protect themselves.
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Federal Reserve minutes: Many members want action ‘fairly soon’ to boost economy
08-24-2012
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http://www.washingtonpost.com, By Steven Mufson
Minutes of the last meeting of the Federal Reserve reveal that many board members see the need for additional monetary action “fairly soon” to boost the pace of economic recovery.
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News Link • F.E.M.A.
The FEMA Faceoff: Truth as an Urban Legend
08-24-2012
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http://www.strategic-living.net, The Two Gs
The article you are about to read was originally posted on Gaye’s Backdoor Survival site and George’s Peoplenomics site. This is something that the two of us have been working on for a number of months " since early May to be exact.
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News Link • General Opinion
The Quest for an Ideal Retirement Location
08-24-2012
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http://www.strategic-living.net, The Two Gs
As we move into the final days of summer 2012, George and Elaine have completed another one of those “Bucket List” items on their personal agendas: Flying an old airplane across the USA.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
This Awesome Image Shows Every Hurricane And Tropical Storm Since 1851
08-24-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Jennifer Welsh
Data-master John Neslon created this bottoms-up view (looking at the Earth from Antarctica) of every single tropical storm and hurricane we know about, dating back to 1851.
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
.... I Can't Vote For A Fiscal Conservative Without Also Supporting Religious Aggressives
08-24-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Henry Blodget
Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan are campaigning as "fiscal conservatives"--leaders who are responsible and serious enough to know that our country's budget deficit is unsustainable and are therefore willing to make the hard choices necessary to get the def
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Congressional Lecture by Roger Garrison (sponsored by Ron Paul)...
08-24-2012
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http://bastiat.mises.org, By Daniel J. Sanchez
Dr. Garrison’s lecture describes how the economic precepts on which the Fed operates are fundamentally flawed, making it only a matter of time before the Fed is the creator of its own demise.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Spam Saves The Day
08-24-2012
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
Spam may or may not be a better investment than gold (tip: it isn't, and only those for whom the only solution to a record debt crisis is more debt can claim otherwise), but some things are certain: it is edible, it is cheap and it can be stored inde
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Slumping Commercial Real Estate Sales Are Latest Flashing Red Non-Recovery Indicator
08-24-2012
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
Capital Analytics (RCA) released their US commercial real estate transaction data for July last night.
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News Link • Precious Metals
Gold And Silver Surge Above 200DMA
08-24-2012
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
The last few days have been 'different'. Equities have relinquished their role as QE-sensitizers as Treasuries and precious metals have taken the reins. Perhaps though, as CNBC's Rick Santelli noted earlier, Gold and Silver are acting as barometers o
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News Link • China
Guest Post: Venezuela Ramps up China Oil Exports Unsettling Washington
08-24-2012
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
The biggest geostrategic change of the past decade overlooked by Washington policy wonks in their fixation on their self-proclaimed “war on terror” is that Latin America has been throwing off the shackles of the Monroe Doctrine.
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News Link • Eminent Domain
Is the Continued Prosecution of Robert Adams Part of a Land Grab?
08-23-2012
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The Agitator
In my previous post about how the Sacramento Co. District Attorney continues to push the prosecution of Robert Adams for child molestation even though there is no evidence, I said it was part of the typical “bleed ‘em and plead ‘em” strategy employed
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
In Effort to Curb Money Market Funds, a Plan B Is Considered
08-23-2012
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New York Times
Treasury Secretary Geithner and other top regulators were given sweeping powers after the 2008 financial crisis that would allow them to force new rules on money market funds, a popular type of mutual fund that has taken some of the blame for the cri
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
“We Need a Drug Dog So We Can Seize More Property and Raise More Money”
08-23-2012
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The Agitator
Andrews told board members that the city is missing out on possible revenues that a K9 would bring. He said when you make traffic stops and the driver refuses to allow a search, their hands are tied. If a drug dog alerts on a vehicle, its gives offic
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
"Power Up the Local Police": A Formula for Despotism
08-23-2012
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Lew Rockwell blog
New Hampshire State Rep. Robert Kingsbury exhorts Americans to support their “local” police as a buffer against the federal government. Were he to focus his attention on the behavior of police agencies in his own backyard, Rep. Kingsbury might
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News Link • Drones
Does Louis Freeh Have ANY Credibility?
08-23-2012
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Lew Rockwell blog
Bovard pointed out nearly 20 years ago that Freeh not only covered up criminal behavior at the FBI, but also lied to the public about the Bureau's activities. Writing about the aftermath of the infamous Randy Weaver case, Bovard notes:
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News Link • TERRORISM
Ruby Ridge: The Age of State Terrorism Begins
08-23-2012
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by William N. Grigg (Pro Liberate)
Sara Weaver has forgiven the people responsible for murdering her mother Vicki and younger brother Samuel 20 years ago. Lon Horiuchi, the FBI sniper who shot Vicki in the head while she was holding a 10-month-old infant, is still being sheltered by t
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
The Army's Quick Fix for Soldier Suicides: Anti-Depressive Nasal Spray
08-23-2012
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http://www.popsci.com, By Clay Dillow
The U.S. Army tallied 38 confirmed or suspected suicides among its ranks last month--that’s among both active- and non-active-duty members including the Army National Guard and Army Reserve--the highest rate of suicide within the branch yet observed.
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News Link • Syria
Guest Post: Syria And Iran Dominos Lead To World War
08-23-2012
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
Almost three years ago I wrote an analytical piece on the concept of deliberately engineering wars, big and small, by elitists to distract the masses away from particular global developments that work to the benefit of the establishment power structu
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
What Mitt Romney's Economic Advisor, Goldman Sachs (And The NY Fed) Really Think
08-23-2012
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
Capital Markets Über Alles: What Mitt Romney's Economic Advisor, Goldman Sachs (And The NY Fed) Really Think
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News Link • Israel
Israel's Iran Strike Routes
08-23-2012
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
The jury is still out whether Israel will or will not attack Iran, despite the endless and relentless (dis)information in the media from all sides...
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News Link • Economy - International
Special Report: UK banks face scandal over toxic insurance products
08-23-2012
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By Matt Scuffham and Myles Neligan
When businessman Colin Jones approached his local bank for a loan in 2007, he had little idea what an "interest rate swap" was, let alone a "structured collar".
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News Link • European Union
Jacob Rothschild, John Paulson And George Soros Are All Betting That Financial Disaster...
08-23-2012
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http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com
Are you willing to bet against three of the wealthiest men in the entire world? Jacob Rothschild recently bet approximately 200 million dollars that the euro will go down.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
...Central Banks And Wall Street Insiders Are Rapidly Preparing For Something BIG
08-23-2012
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http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com
If you want to figure out what is going to happen next in the financial markets, carefully watch what the insiders are doing.
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News Link • Government
More Than Half Of All Americans Are At Least Partially Dependent On The Government
08-23-2012
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http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com,
A very large segment of the population has figured out that it can use voting as a tool to get more money and benefits from the government, and that is a very dangerous thing.
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News Link • World News
BRITAIN MAKES A FOOL OF ITSELF OVER ASSANGE
08-23-2012
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http://ericmargolis.com, by Eric Margolis
Assange, founder of Wikileaks, sought political asylum two months ago in Ecuador’s London Embassy to escape Britain’s attempts to deport him to Sweden.
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News Link • Iraq
Iraq to Receive First Batch of F-16s in 2014
08-23-2012
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http://news.antiwar.com, by John Glaser
Washington is desperately supporting the Iraqi dictatorship in a bid to maintain its influence
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Don't lose sight of why the US is out to get Julian Assange
08-23-2012
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http://www.guardian.co.uk, Seumas Milne
Ecuador is pressing for a deal that offers justice to Assange's accusers " and essential protection for whistleblowers
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News Link • Precious Metals
Gold's Little Brother Is Talking
08-23-2012
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http://lewrockwell.com, by Stewart Thomson
Early this morning, gold may have achieved an upside breakout from a key symmetrical triangle formation.
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News Link • General Opinion
Pussy Riot, the Unfortunate Dupes of Amerikan Hegemony
08-23-2012
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http://lewrockwell.com, by Paul Craig Roberts
My heart goes out to the three Russian women who comprise the Russian rock band, Pussy Riot. They were brutally deceived and used by the Washington-financed NGOs that have infiltrated Russia. Pussy Riot was sent on a mission that was clearly illegal
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News Link • World News
This free country should be on your radar…
08-23-2012
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www.sovereignman.com/Simon Black
They call it “The Most Serene Republic of San Marino”. That’s actually the official name. And with good reason… because it’s easily one of the most ideal places on the planet to be.
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
School withholds valedictorian’s diploma for saying “hell”
08-23-2012
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wwwkfor.com
“We went to the office and asked for the diploma and the principal said, ‘Your diploma is right here but you’re not getting it. Close the door; we have a problem,’” Nootbaar said.
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News Link • Economy - International
Citi Expects Only These Two Places In The World Will Have AAA Ratings In The Long Run
08-23-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Sam Ro
As we learned a year ago with the US credit rating downgrade, no country's pristine AAA credit rating is safe.
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News Link • Transportation
Man Kicked Off Flight Over Anti-TSA Shirt
08-23-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Paul Joseph Watson
A man and his wife were treated as potential terrorists and kicked off a Delta Airlines flight over a satirical T-shirt because it made passengers and employees feel “very uncomfortable”.
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News Link • Surveillance
The new totalitarianism of surveillance technology
08-23-2012
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http://www.guardian.co.uk, Naomi Wolf
If you think that 24/7 tracking of citizens by biometric recognition systems is paranoid fantasy, just read the industry newsletters.
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Kidnapped Marine's Mom blows off MSM for AVTM exclusive
08-23-2012
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http://www.dailypaul.com, DJP333
Brandon Raub's mother and family provide an update on the situation
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