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Date Sent: 2013-03-06
Freedom's Phoenix PM Edition for Wednesday, March 6, 2013 |
Eric Holder: Drone strikes against Americans on U.S. soil are legal
The Coming Hunger Games: Young People Forced To Serve, Kill and Die -- Zero Tolerance: High School Student Suspended For Disarming School Bus Gunman -- Handling Defeat: Mitt Romney vs. Ron Paul -- The New Era in Gold Repatriation Will Affect Everything -- Is Monetary Stimulation a Sensible Economic Policy? -- Keene district court judge Edward Burke rules decisively against Cheshire County Sheriff -- More Americans Are Raiding 401(k) Accounts To Pay Bills -- Hugo Chavez's handpicked successor at helm in Venezuela, for time
being -- The Surprising Way Debt Collectors Know Where You Work -- Judge Calls Occupy Protesters The 'Most Affable Defendants' He'd Ever Seen --
Is China's real estate bubble about to burst? -- A Leaked Screenshot
Shows Samsung Is Developing Eye Tracking Software For The Galaxy S4 --
Obama May Have Made His Biggest Political Miscalculation In Years -- There's A Secret Internet For Drug Dealers, Assassins, And
Pedophiles -- The Ron Paul Portfolio Has Been Getting Crushed --
Teens Reveal The Craziest Things They've Done To Make Money -- This
Chart Of Bitcoins Is Bananas, And It Looks A Lot Like The Price Of
Gold -- It Looks Like Iraq Has Joined Assad's Side In The Syrian War
-- Chavismo Lives! -- CIA and FBI Had Planned to Assassinate Hugo
Chávez -- Ron Paul With an AR-15 (Video) -- “Chavez Death Could Be A
US Plot” -- More Controversial Obama Appointments -- AIPAC
Conference Day Two
AZ: FIRST EVER PRIVATE GUN SHOW - this Sat, March 9th, 2013 in
Lakeside, AZ; Lincoln Day Dinner and Auction with
Keynote Speaker, Sheriff Richard Mack, Apr. 13
Freedom's Phoenix Digital Magazine March 1st,
2013 Edition READY FOR DOWNLOAD!
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News Link • Surveillance
Eric Holder: Drone strikes against Americans on U.S. soil are legal
03-06-2013
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www.washingtonexaminer.com
Attorney General Eric Holder can imagine a scenario in which it would be constitutional to carry out a drone strike against an American on American soil, he wrote in a letter to Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky.
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News Link • Obama Administration
The Coming Hunger Games: Young People Forced To Serve, Kill and Die
03-06-2013
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lewrockwell.com/jeff berwick
Even if these young people don't become cannon fodder, they will literally be forced to perform unpaid labor for their government. Last we checked unpaid labor at gunpoint satisfied the definition of slavery.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Gun Rights
Zero Tolerance: High School Student Suspended For Disarming School Bus Gunman
03-06-2013
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lewrockwell.com/Mac Slavo
With a nationwide effort now underway to disarm America’s gun owners because of the dangers firearms purportedly pose to the general public, namely our schoolchildren, the following report from Cypress Lake, Florida highlights how our government spon
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News Link • How To
Handling Defeat: Mitt Romney vs. Ron Paul
03-06-2013
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lewrockwell.com/Chris Rossini
Romney ran for Power, while Ron Paul ran to eliminate and reign in as much power as he possibly could. How each man handled the defeat was as different as their reasons for running.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The New Era in Gold Repatriation Will Affect Everything
03-06-2013
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Daily Bell
The old era in which central banking trust was ingrained in the system is gone now " and the ramifications are many even though they have not yet been felt.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Government
Keene district court judge Edward Burke rules decisively against Cheshire County Sheriff.
03-06-2013
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FreeKeene.com
Cheshire Sheriff's No-Trespass Orders Ruled Unconstitutional
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Surveillance
Homeland Security Drones Designed to Identify Civilians Carrying Guns
03-06-2013
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www.breitbart.com
Recently uncovered government documents reveal that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) unmanned Predator B drone fleet has been customize designed to identify civilians carrying guns and track cell phone signals.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Entertainment: Sports
Report: Goodell ‘Terrified’ That ‘NFL Player Is Going To Die On The Field’
03-06-2013
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www.newyork.cbsglobal.com
Ever since Roger Goodell succeeded Paul Tagliabue as the NFL commissioner in 2006, one of his main focuses has been on player safety.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Study Shows More Americans Are Raiding 401(k) Accounts To Pay Bills
03-06-2013
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philadelphia.cbslocal.com
A new national study shows that too many of us are cashing out 401(k) accounts to pay bills. If that retirement account is calling your name, a financial expert advises you to stop listening.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • World News
Hugo Chavez's handpicked successor at helm in Venezuela, for time being
03-06-2013
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CBS News
Even in death, Hugo Chavez's orders are being followed. The man he anointed to succeed him, Vice President Nicolas Maduro, will continue to run Venezuela as interim president and be the governing socialists' candidate in an election to be called with
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Employee and Employer Relations
The Surprising Way Debt Collectors Know Where You Work
03-06-2013
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Business Insider
It is "perhaps one of the most powerful and private databases of American's personal information ever created, containing 190 million employment and salary records, covering more than one-third of US adults."
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News Link • Just For Fun!
Another Video Of Chinese Official's Epic Airport Meltdown Has Emerged
03-06-2013
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Business Insider
Last month remarkable CCTV footage of a Chinese official's complete meltdown at an airport hit the internet, going global in just a few days.
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News Link • Activism
Judge Calls Occupy Protesters The 'Most Affable Defendants' He'd Ever Seen
03-06-2013
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Business Insider
A judge made an unusual move after a jury acquitted a dozen Occupy Philadelphia protesters of trespassing Tuesday, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports.
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News Link • Activism
Going Postal Against the FOA
03-06-2013
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Socio-Economics For The Majority
Does society like a fish, rot from the head down?
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H. Skip Robinson
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News Link • China
Is China's real estate bubble about to burst?
03-06-2013
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www.youtube.com
Real estate mogul Zhang Xin tells 60 Minutes that residential development in China has reached the end of the road.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Natural Disasters
These Are The Places You Are Most Likely To Be Swallowed By A Sinkhole
03-06-2013
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Business Insider
Last week a 30-foot-wide sinkhole opened in the ground in Florida and swallowed a man and his house.
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Bronx Science Athletes Arrested, Coaches Suspended In Growing Hazing Scandal
03-06-2013
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Business Insider
The Bronx High School of Science, one of New York's top public schools, has come under scrutiny recently for a hazing scandal on its successful track team.
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News Link • Technology: Software
A Leaked Screenshot Shows Samsung Is Developing Eye Tracking Software For The Galaxy S4
03-06-2013
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Business Insider
A leaked screenshot seems to confirm that Samsung has an interesting new feature in the works for its next smartphone, the Galaxy S IV.
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama May Have Made His Biggest Political Miscalculation In Years
03-06-2013
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Business Insider
Last night, we took a look at how House Speaker John Boehner's significant gamble on the sequester has paid off so far.
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News Link • Gold and Silver
The Ron Paul Portfolio Has Been Getting Crushed
03-06-2013
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Business Insider
Former Texas Congressman Ron Paul is known for his full-throated endorsement of gold as money. And he's put his money where his mouth is by investing in a lot of it.
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News Link • Technology: Software
Teens Reveal The Craziest Things They've Done To Make Money
03-06-2013
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Business Insider
We speak from experience when we say that translating the jargon-filled, mind-numbing world of personal finance into readable, engaging material for young people is no simple task.
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News Link • Bitcoin
This Chart Of Bitcoins Is Bananas, And It Looks A Lot Like The Price Of Gold
03-06-2013
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Business Insider
This Chart Of Bitcoins Is Bananas, And It Looks A Lot Like The Price Of Gold
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News Link • Iraq
It Looks Like Iraq Has Joined Assad's Side In The Syrian War
03-06-2013
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Business Insider
At least 48 Syrian soldiers and eight Iraqis died on Monday when they were ambushed inside Iraq, The Associated Press reports.
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News Link • Secret Government Projects
CIA and FBI Had Planned to Assassinate Hugo Chávez
03-06-2013
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http://www.globalresearch.ca, By Kurt Nimmo
This empire, unlike any other in the history of the world, has been built primarily through economic manipulation. “How do we know that the CIA was behind the coup that overthrew Hugo Chávez?” asked historian William Blum in 2002.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gun Rights
Ron Paul With an AR-15 (Video)
03-06-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
In this rare video from 1989 Ron Paul discusses the second amendment, life, liberty, property and the right to defend all three.
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Conspiracies
“Chavez Death Could Be A US Plot”
03-06-2013
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http://www.globalresearch.ca, By Ria Novosti
The death of Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez from cancer may have been part of a plot by the United States to infect its enemies in Latin America with the disease, the leader of Russia’s Communist party, Gennady Zyuganov, speculated on Wednesday.
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Robert Lee
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Opinion • Iran
Ray McGovern: My Take
‘Talking Points’ for Hagel on Iran
03-05-2013
Ray McGovern
Ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern suggests, "You may wish to draw on some of the following talking points for today’s meeting, cast in the first-person, as though you were speaking."
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
The Sequester ‘Crisis’ and What Should Be Done
03-05-2013
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Lewrockwell.com
Despite what the media and politicians would have us believe, the United States did not collapse last Friday when the package of spending reductions known as “sequestration” went into effect.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Federal Reserve
The Myth of Fed Independence
03-05-2013
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Lewrockwell.com
By far the most secret and least accountable operation of the federal government is not, as one might expect, the CIA, DIA, or some other super-secret intelligence agency.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Is this any way to run U.S. foreign policy?
03-05-2013
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walt.foreignpolicy.com
Watching the musical chairs taking place in the first months of Obama's second term reminds me of how fundamentally unserious America's approach to foreign affairs really is.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • United Nations
'Time for a Reckoning': UN Investigator says US/UK Must Account for Torture, Human Rights Vi
03-05-2013
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Common Dreams
'Words are not enough. Platitudinous repetition of statements affirming opposition to torture ring hollow,' says Ben Emmerson'
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Police State
Milwaukee Police Purchase Massive Tank To Patrol Streets
03-05-2013
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govtslaves.info
With the recent news of the DHS Purchasing 2,700 light-armored tanks and the countless ammunition buys made by many different factions of the Government, it should come as no surprise that feds and local municipalities are preparing for something
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Congress-Congressmen
Democratic Lawmaker Stripped Of Leadership Title After Lewd Comment To Girl In Hearing
03-05-2013
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Jonathan Turley
Rep. Ernest Hewett, a five-term Democrat from New London, is desperately trying to explain a comment made to a high school girl during a hearing on the funding of youth programs.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Camera Fraud
Redflex Admits Bribery Scheme in Two More US Cities
03-05-2013
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The Newspaper
"It's a fair question to say if this was going on in Chicago, might it have been going on somewhere else," McConnell said. "We found two other geographies that raise concern, and those investigations are considerably smaller than [Chicago's]
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News Link • Iraq
Dozens of Syrian troops killed in Iraq after seeking refuge, raising concerns of war’s spread
03-04-2013
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Washington Post
Dozens of Syrian soldiers who crossed into Iraq for refuge were ambushed with bombs, gunfire and rocket-propelled grenades in an attack that killed 48 of them and heightened concerns that the country could be drawn into Syria’s civil war.
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News Link • Corruption
Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac merger plan unveiled by FHFA director DeMarco
03-04-2013
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Washington Post
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will create a common platform for issuing mortgage-backed securities as they wind down operations and plan for a future in which the two companies no longer exist, their regulator said today.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Senators reach bipartisan agreement on gun-trafficking bill
03-04-2013
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Washington Post
A bipartisan group of senators introduced a new proposal to stiffen federal penalties for people who illegally purchase firearms for someone else, signaling continued eagerness between Democrats and Republicans to find agreement on legislation to lim
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News Link • Congress-Congressmen
Escort Now says Menendez prostitution claims were made up
03-04-2013
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Washington Post
An escort who appeared on a video claiming that Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) paid her for sex has told Dominican authorities that she was instead paid to make up the claims and has never met or seen the senator, according to court documents and two
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News Link • Homeland Security
Obama DHS Purchases 2,700 Light-Armored Tanks to Go With Their 1.6 Billion Bullet Stockpile
03-04-2013
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http://govtslaves.info, Gateway Pundit
This is getting a little creepy.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Homeland Security
Homeland Security Is Serving Warrants Using Mine-Resistant Vehicles
03-04-2013
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Business Insider
The Department of Homeland Security has acquired over 2,700 military-style, mine-resistant ambush protected vehicles for use inside the U.S., according to reports from RT.
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News Link • 911 / World Trade Center
9/11 Truth Activist in UK Court Wins
03-04-2013
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Victoria N. Alexander, Digital Journal
In an act of civil disobedience, Tony Rooke refused to pay a £130 TV license fee, alleging that the BBC intentionally misrepresented facts about the 9/11 attacks. Facing a judge Monday, Rooke was not convicted and did not have to pay the fine.
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News Link • TERRORISM
UK Police Claim To Stop Terror Attack Just As It Was About To Happen
03-04-2013
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Business Insider
A terrorist attack against a police station in Northern Ireland was thwarted only minutes before it was set to go off, according to a report from the UK Independent.
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News Link • TAXES: State
California: Remember the Taxes You Didn’t Owe? Surprise!
03-04-2013
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by Wendy McElroy (Future of Freedom Foundation)
Shortly before the Christmas holidays and oh so quietly, the California Franchise Tax Board retroactively rescinded with interest a tax break that dated back to 1993 that was intended to lure startup companies of under $50 million into the state.
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
No, America's Military Is Not Getting Passed By Russia And China
03-04-2013
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Business Insider
China's leaders will announce this year's defense expenditure Tuesday, and if it's anything like last year (a rise of 11 percent), it'll be more growth; and Russia plans on spending an extra $755 billion over the next ten years.
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Bradley Manning: the face of heroism
03-04-2013
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by Glenn Greenwald (The Guardian)
"He came to view much of what the Army told him " and the public " to be false, such as the suggestion the military had destroyed a graphic video of an aerial assault in Iraq that killed civilians, or that WikiLeaks was a nefarious entity. . . .
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Not Trial By Video
03-04-2013
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Simple Justice
In a curious twist of rhetoric, Judge Patrick Dugan acquitted Philadelphia police Lt. Jonathan Josey of assaulting Aida Guzman at a Puerto Rican Day Parade, announcing "This is not a social media contest, this is not trial by video."
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News Link • Camera Fraud
More Redflex Executives Fall Over Bribery Scandal
03-04-2013
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The Newspaper
O'Malley was paid $2 million between 2003 and 2012 for his work in [Chicago] landing the nation's most lucrative photo ticketing contract. Redflex sent Bills on 17 different trips between 2003 and 2010, paying for everything including hotels, flights
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
New Space Drive Works
03-04-2013
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arclein
The latest research comes from a team headed by Yang Juan, Professor of Propulsion Theory and Engineering of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the Northwestern Polytechnic University in Xi'an. Titled "Net thrust measurement of propellantless microwav
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News Link • Police State
Obama DHS Purchases 2,700 Light-Armored Tanks to Go With Their 1.6 Billion Bullet Stockpile
03-04-2013
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The Department of Homeland Security (through the U.S. Army Forces Command) recently retrofitted 2,717 of these ‘Mine Resistant Protected’ vehicles for service on the streets of the United States.
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama's Washington Monument Syndrome
03-04-2013
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Lewrockwell.com
Faced with the threat of federal government spending increasing by "only" 7 percent instead of some higher, pie-in-the-sky amount, the Obammunists are busy crying "BUDGET CUTS!!!!!"
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News Link • Syria
A Syrian girl posted this on Facebook: Diane Sawyer in Syria
03-04-2013
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Daily Paul.com
Just look at how much the reality has been warped since then! As everybody can tell, the portrayal of the countries in the Western media change along with the US' foreign policy... Depending on the latest policy or the stages of that policy,......
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News Link • Self-Defense
Martin Luther King Jr. High School coach shoots attackers
03-04-2013
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Prison Planet
Police sources tell 7 Action News that a women’s basketball coach from Martin Luther King, Jr. Senior High School shot two men who attacked him as he was walking two basketball players to their cars in the school parking lot.
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News Link • Gun Rights
7-Year-Old Suspended, Teacher Says He Shaped Pastry into Gun
03-04-2013
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Prison Planet
Children at Park Elementary School went home with a letter today explaining there was a disruption in school.
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