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Date Sent: 2012-11-25
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Sunday, November 25, 2012 |
Sheriff Mack State Sovereignty Rendered Express -- British Lord: Nuke Afghanistan-Pakistan Border
If These Two Brilliant Investors Are Right About Future Growth, The World Is Screwed -- Marijuana's Top Lobbyist Told Us Why There Will Be Several Viable Legalization Bills Next Year -- These Next Generation Drones Will Do Even More With No Human Input At All -- Both Benghazi And The Petraeus Scandal Suggest US Media Is Way Too Cozy With The State --
Economic Collapse and Power Grid Collapse -- The Gaza And Syria
Conflicts Highlight A Complex Web Of Alliances In The Middle East -- Finally, A Politician Admits That Winning The Drug War Is "Impossible" --
FABER: 44 Charts That Show Why The World Is Doomed -- Russian expert
warns of possibility of large-scale war in Middle East -- Top Republican senator ditching Norquist anti-tax pledge -- 'United Nations Wants to Use Drones' -- Ernie Hancock Interviews Jeff Deist (Dr. Paul's Chief of Staff) on Ron Paul's Future Activism -- Drums of More War -- FBI announces arrest of alleged gang member on
'most wanted' list -- Pakistan bomb kills at least seven -- 4409: Hank Hill discovers Obama -- Congress, Obama set to resume ‘fiscal cliff’ talks -- News anchors resign on air over politically unbalanced news --
Rejected Beatles audition tape discovered -- Bernanke: We Don't Have
'Tools' to Offset 'Fiscal Cliff' Dive -- Will Hunting had it right 14 years ago (Video)
-- Tom Woods: Secession Vs. Nullification -- Fox News guest: ‘We do
want to destroy the imaginations of our children’
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News Link • Government
Sheriff Mack State Sovereignty Rendered Express Preview
11-25-2012
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http://www.dailypaul.com, fonzdrew
This is an excerpt from a seminar that was presented by the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association.
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News Link • Afghanistan
British Lord Calls for Nuking Afghanistan-Pakistan Border
11-25-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Kurt Nimmo
Lord Gilbert, aka Life Peer Baron Gilbert, a House of Lords fixture, has suggested using a neutron bomb on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border to clear out pesky natives who were radicalized by his country, the United States, and Pakistan.
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Pranav Mistry: The thrilling potential of SixthSense technology
11-25-2012
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http://www.ted.com, TEDIndia 2009
At TEDIndia, Pranav Mistry demos several tools that help the physical world interact with the world of data -- including a deep look at his SixthSense device and a new, paradigm-shifting paper "laptop."
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News Link • Future Predictions
If These Two Brilliant Investors Are Right About Future Growth, The World Is Screwed
11-25-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, The Economist
WHAT distinguishes modern man from his ancestors is the expectation of steady economic and population growth.
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News Link • Drug War
Marijuana's Top Lobbyist Told Us Why There Will Be Several Viable Legalization Bills Next Year..
11-25-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Walter Hickey
On election day Colorado and Washington legalized marijuana, becoming the first states in the entire world to do so.
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News Link • Outdoor Survival
Your Better Half: A Force Multiplier
11-25-2012
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http://www.survivalblog.com, by J.L.H.
If your better half is just as prepared for emergencies as you, or you are a female survivalist who is reading this article, then congratulations!
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Military
These Next Generation Drones Will Do Even More With No Human Input At All
11-25-2012
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Walter Hickey and Robert Johnson
As Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) become more sophisticated their, capacity for abuse only grows.
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News Link • Transportation
Japan Is Working On A 300 MPH Floating Train
11-25-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Alex Davies
The Central Japan Railway Co. (JR Tokai) yesterday unveiled a prototype it believes will bring faster train service than ever before to Japan.
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
Both Benghazi And The Petraeus Scandal Suggest US Media Is Way Too Cozy With The State
11-25-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Geoffrey Ingersoll
If there is just one lesson to take away from the Benghazi and Petraeus affairs it's that the American media is way too cozy with heads of state.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Letter Re: Economic Collapse and Power Grid Collapse
11-25-2012
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http://www.survivalblog.com,
Mr Rawles,
I’ve read and enjoyed each of your books, and I am an avid prepper -- it’s only a matter of time before we have an economic collapse.
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News Link • Syria
The Gaza And Syria Conflicts Highlight A Complex Web Of Alliances In The Middle East
11-25-2012
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Michael Kelley and Geoffrey Ingersoll
The 20-month civil war in Syria and the eight-day Israeli offensive in Gaza highlights the often contradictory web of alliances that fuels conflicts in the Middle East.
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News Link • Drug War
Finally, A Politician Admits That Winning The Drug War Is "Impossible"
11-25-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, The Economist
ENDING the consumption and the trafficking of illegal drugs is “impossible”, according to Felipe Calderón, Mexico’s outgoing president.
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
GE Is So Stoked About 3D Printing, They're Using It To Make Parts For Jet Engines
11-25-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, The Economist
CONFIRMATION as to how seriously some companies are taking additive manufacturing, popularly known as 3D printing, came on November 20th when GE Aviation, part of the world’s biggest manufacturing group, bought a privately owned company called Morris
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News Link • Government
How Government 'Works'
11-25-2012
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http://www.thedailybell.com, by Bill Bonner
In the case of Egypt, people listened and obeyed − at least, as much as they did − because Pharaoh was, in theory, a god.
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News Link • World News
Russian expert warns of possibility of large-scale war in Middle East
11-25-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Voice of Russia
“Deploying these missiles in Turkey will be dangerous for Syrian military planes " this is obvious.
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Top Republican senator ditching Norquist anti-tax pledge
11-25-2012
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http://www.nypost.com, From FOXNEWS
A top Republican senator is casting aside an anti-tax pledge he signed, saying that solving the country’s looming fiscal crisis is more important than honoring the decades-old pact.
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News Link • United Nations
'United Nations Wants to Use Drones'
11-25-2012
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http://www.weeklystandard.com, By DANIEL HALPER
"The United Nations wants to use drones for the first time to monitor fighting in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, where Rwanda has been accused of aiding rebels," says the report, quoting U.N. officials.
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News Link • r3VOLution Continues
Ernie Hancock Interviews Jeff Deist (Dr. Paul's Chief of Staff) on Ron Paul's Future Activis
11-25-2012
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http://www.dailypaul.com, P.Au.L
Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock Radio:
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News Link • Entertainment: Television (TV)
Here's Why You Will Instantly Dump Your Cable Company To Get Google Fiber
11-25-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Henry Blodget
Google Fiber will soon be a viable cable alternative in many neighborhoods in Kansas City.
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News Link • Police State
FBI announces arrest of alleged gang member on 'most wanted' list
11-24-2012
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Associated Press via The Guardian
Joe Luis Saenz, detained by authorities in Mexico, faces charges in the US of murder, kidnapping and rape
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News Link • TERRORISM
Pakistan bomb kills at least seven
11-24-2012
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The Guardian
Three children among dead and 30 injured from roadside bomb near Shia Muslim processsion in Sunni area of Dera Ismail Khan
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Congress, Obama set to resume ‘fiscal cliff’ talks
11-24-2012
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RawStory.com
Congress returns from its week-long Thanksgiving holiday Monday, as lawmakers and President Barack Obama try to avert a looming fiscal crisis that could send the entire US economy plunging into recession again.
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News Link • Voting and Elections
Frustration in Morocco, a year after elections
11-24-2012
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RawStory.com
Morocco’s moderate Islamist Party of Justice and Development swept to power in historic elections last year in the wake of Arab Spring protests that brought hopes of change.
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News Link • Activism
Dueling protests in Tokyo over dolphin and whale hunts
11-24-2012
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RawStory.com
Environmentalists and nationalists held opposing rallies over the issue of Japan’s dolphin and whale hunts in a rare showdown in central Tokyo on Saturday, leading to angry scenes.
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News Link • Activism
Nine arrested in Walmart protests
11-24-2012
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David Ferguson via RawStory.com
Nine people were arrested Friday in protests against retail giant Walmart. According to a Reuters report, the protesters, who told police they intended to be arrested, were taken into custody.
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News Link • Death Penalty
Death penalty removed from Ugandan ‘Kill the Gays’ bill
11-24-2012
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Arturo Garcia via RawStory.com
Ugandan lawmakers removed the death penalty from an anti-LGBT bill set to be debated by the country’s parliament next week, the BBC reported Saturday.
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News Link • Kids
Abandoned toddler found in K-Mart parking lot after Black Friday sale
11-24-2012
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David Ferguson via RawStory.com
A two-year-old boy was found abandoned in a Springfield, Massachusetts K-Mart store’s parking lot late Friday night. According to Springfield’s WWLP News 22,
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News Link • Biofuel
4 young people in Africa design generator that runs on urine
11/09/2012
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Good.is
uh... yes. that's correct. It is a generator that breaks down the urea, yeilding hydrogen which is then purified and burned.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Crowd shouts judge out of courtroom, man declares, “I’m in charge now”
11-24-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
In court Monday, Boniek appeared without an attorney but with many supporters, who filled the courtroom to standing room only save for a few other citizens and attorneys who were present for unrelated court matters.
Boniek told Budeski he had conc
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Elixer of Life?
11-24-2012
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arclein
The former teacher and church minister was born on November 4, 1902, in Tunstall, Staffordshire.
Reflecting on all he has witnessed, he said: ‘I remember before the days of Tarmac, the roads were all dust heaps.
‘I can remember hearing about
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Electron Vortex Microscope
11-24-2012
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arclein
, electron beams are being created that possess an inner rotation, similarly to a tornado. These "vortex beams" cannot only be used to display objects, but to investigate material-specific properties - with precision on a nanometer scale. A new bre
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News Link • U F O and Other Unidentified Stuff
Sea Creatures
11-24-2012
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arclein
A long, serpentine animal, showing loops of its body above water and swimming fast, with much thrashing. Its head is described as sheeplike with small eyes, and it has a dorsal fin running along part of its back.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Heart Tissue Restoration Successful
11-24-2012
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arclein
The researchers believe that patients suffering from irregular or slow heart beats could be treated with an injection of new heart cells grown from stem cells to create a “biological pacemaker” that will regulate their heartbeat.
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News Link • Constitution
Constitutional Philosophy: Jon Roland, Lecture 1, 2012/11/10
11-24-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Jon Roland discusses political philosophy with a focus on discovery of the principles of constitutional design as the key problem in that field.
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
News anchors resign on air over politically unbalanced news
11-23-2012
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by TheLorax
I wish to thank and congratulate these two for taking a stand against the "government/media complex that controls the news and most political propaganda".
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News Link • Entertainment: Music
Rejected Beatles audition tape discovered
11-23-2012
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk, By Telegraph reporters
The Beatles' audition tape famously rejected by a record executive in 1962 has finally been uncovered after 50 years.
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News Link • Just For Fun!
What ‘Shopping’ Could Look Like in the Future
11-23-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By Hugh MacLeod
What ‘Shopping’ could look like in the future.
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News Link • Government
Will Hunting had it right 14 years ago (Video)
11-23-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
My favourite scene from Good Will Hunting and pertinent to the principles of liberty in its condemnation of killing people abroad who have done no harm to you personally. Taken to it's logical conclusion this belief should lead anybody who holds it
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News Link • Secession
Tom Woods: Secession Vs. Nullification
11-23-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Interview (Video) on WHDT of Tom Woods discussing Secession Vs. Nullification
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News Link • Kids
Fox News guest: ‘We do want to destroy the imaginations of our children’
11-23-2012
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Stephen C. Webster via RawStory.com
In a bizarre interview aired Friday morning, “Fox & Friends” apparently got punked by an author who declared that society absolutely has every reason to “destroy the imaginations of our children.”
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Scientists create cartilage using 3-D ’tissue printer’
11-23-2012
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David Ferguson via RawStory.com
Scientists at Wake Forest University in North Carolina have developed a “tissue printer” that “prints” cartilage, the flexible connective tissue that cushions our bones and joints.
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News Link • Israel
Gaza truce holding even after Palestinian death
11-24-2012
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Karin Laub and Sarah El Deeb via CSMonitor
Crowds have been massing at the border between Israel and Gaza, and Israeli soldiers killed a man they said was trying to cross the border.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Why Black Friday 2012 is giving shoppers and stores an extra gift
11-24-2012
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Ron Scherer via TheChristianScienceMonitor
Black Friday falls falls early in the calendar this year, which means retailers have more opportunity to make sales and shoppers have more time to do last-minute shopping.
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News Link • Obama Administration
Death threats against Obama: Did Florida cop 'fan flames'?
11-24-2012
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Patrik Jonsson via TheChristianScienceMonitor
Many offhand death threats against President Obama, including several by US police, are leading to public scrutiny and concern " even if they are not leading to legal action.
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Is Obamacare on table for 'fiscal cliff' talks?
11-24-2012
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Peter Grier via The Guardian
Hose Speaker John Boehner says it should be, but with a Democratic president and Senate, the reality could be that Republicans will only be able to chip away at the edges of Obamacare.
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News Link • Activism
Walmart protests are throwback to pre-union days
11-24-2012
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Mark Guarino via TheChristianScienceMonitor
Walmart protests on Black Friday by some employees are an attempt to shame the company into public action " even though the workers are not organized into a labor union. Extent of Walmart protests still unclear.
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News Link • Economy - International
Argentina fears default after American court ruling
11-24-2012
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Heather Stewart and Uki Goñi via The Guardian
Judge orders repayment of $1.3bn to 'vulture funds' as debt campaigners hit out at speculators' behaviour
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News Link • Transportation
Texas highway collisions kill two
11-24-2012
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Associated Press via The Guardian
Two dead and more than 80 people injured in 'catastrophic' 140-car pileup after thick fog descends over Texas highway
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News Link • Energy
Gulf of Mexico Black Elk oil rig fire claims second victim
11-24-2012
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Associated Press via The Guardian
Avelino Tajonera, 49, dies from injuries sustained in fire on 16 November as three other men remain in hospital
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News Link • Police State
New York garment salesman held without bail over serial killings
11-24-2012
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Associated Press via The Guardian
Salvatore Perrone faces charges of systematically shooting dead three Middle Eastern store owners in separate incidents
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