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Date Sent: 2013-04-01
Freedom's Phoenix PM Edition for Monday, April 1, 2013 |
Cypriot President's Family Transferred >$10 Million to London Before Deposits Seized
04-01-13 -- Terry Bressi (CheckpointUSA.Org) - LISTEN LIVE on
LRN.FM, M-F, 9-Noon (EST) -- Ron Paul: The Great Cyprus Bank Robbery -- The dark underbelly of sustainable
development: Agenda 21 -- Stupidocracy -- Blocking new jobs,
blocking the recovery -- The endless befuddlement over ‘need’ -- Preparing for Inflationary Times --
Weimar vs USA: The Fall Of The Second Empire Of Debt -- Cyprus
Parliament President Says "No Future" Under Troika, Calls For
"Iceland" Solution -- The smartest, funniest high
school senior in the nation -- Central Banking Is Central Planning
-- ‘Obama must be thinking he has better things to do than tend to
166 Arabs stuck in Gitmo’ -- Prison-Wide Hunger Strike Still
Rages at Guantánamo -- Nigel Farage tweets about dinner with
Ron Paul *update* -- 22 Egyptian policemen injured in attacks on
police stations -- NY SAFE Act Nabs its First Gun Owner: An
Iraq War vet (VIDEO) -- Texas DA Slain in His Home; Had Armed
Himself -- Ecuador raises Julian Assange case with Labour --
Something Is Killing Up To Half Of
America's Bees -- China to Get Its Own Special Version of Iron Man 3
-- As Feds Suggest ‘Guidance,’ Bitcoin Foundation Pushes Back -- Australia
And China To Enable Direct Currency Convertibility...Bye Bye US
Dollar -- David Stockman: We've Been Lied To, Robbed, And
Misled -- Who Are Freedom’s Friends And Enemies? - by Chuck Baldwin
AZ activism: Pass out Silver Circle Movie materials to press
and around the campus at ASU, Tuesday, 4-2-13 @ 2 p.m.
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News Link • Corruption
Cypriot President's Family Transferred $10+Million to London Before Deposits Seized
04-01-2013
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http://www.dailypaul.com/280238/cypriot-presidents
Cyprus President's Family Transferred Tens Of Millions To London Days Before Deposit Haircuts
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Ron Paul: The Great Cyprus Bank Robbery
04-01-2013
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Ron Paul's Texas Straight Talk
Cyprus has highlighted the fundamental weakness in the European banking system and the extreme fragility of fractional reserve banking. Cypriot banks invested heavily in Greek sovereign debt, and last summer's Greek debt restructuring
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Activism
Help Pass out Silver Circle Movie materials to press and around the campus at ASU TODAY @ 2 p.m.!
04-01-2013
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www.meetup.com/RonPaulPhoenix
We are going to be passing out Silver Circle Movie promotional materials to the press (TV News Stations, Newspapers, and Radio Stations around the valley) and on the campus at ASU on Tuesday, April 2nd, 2013 after lunch at J.J. North's at 2:00 p.m.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • United Nations
The dark underbelly of sustainable development: Agenda 21
04-01-2013
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naturalnews.com
Sustainable development has been the catchphrase of the environmental movement for over 20 years and rarely are underlying motives questioned.
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Reported by:
Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Bill of Rights
New England Town Declares Food Soveignty
03-25-2013
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From
"It shall be unlawful for any law or regulation adopted by the state or federal government to interfere with the rights recognized by this Ordinance." - The key word is recognized.
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H. Skip Robinson
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Voyager I Exits Heliosphere
04-01-2013
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arclein
"Within just a few days, the heliospheric intensity of trapped radiation decreased, and the cosmic ray intensity went up as you would expect if it exited the heliosphere," said Bill Webber, professor emeritus of astronomy at New Mexico State Univer
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robert klein
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News Link • Free Speech
Dutch Boys Disgrace Anne Frank's Memory
04-01-2013
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arclein
From where does such bigotry emanate? Here’s a hint. When Mehmet Sahin reprimanded the youngsters and committed to spend however much time it would take to debunk their ignorance and hate, here is how his neighbours reacted: They collected signatures
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robert klein
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News Link • Geology
Alert From Hekla
04-01-2013
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arclein
The alert level for the aviation industry was raised from "green" to "yellow", which it described as a precautionary measure due to the volcano's "increased earthquake activity."
Emergency services said in a separate statement that they had
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robert klein
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News Link • Religion: Believers
Christian Islamic Dualism.
04-01-2013
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arclein
The agenda of Jesus as he understood that agenda was extraordinary. As it turned out, we got to live his default resolution in which time worked its way through to the present solution
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robert klein
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News Link • Employment & Jobs
Blocking new jobs, blocking the recovery
04-01-2013
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vinsuprynowicz.com
What’s slowing down job creation in Nevada, where the real unemployment rate " counting part-timers who would prefer full-time work, and those who’ve given up looking " averaged 20.3 percent in 2012?
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Gun Rights
The endless befuddlement over ‘need’
04-01-2013
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vinsuprynowicz.com
A letter poured in last week:
“Please tell me who needs an assault weapon other than our military??????
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Guest Post: Preparing for Inflationary Times
04-01-2013
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zerohedge.com
"All this money printing, massive debt, and reckless deficit spending " and we have 2% inflation? I'm beginning to believe that either the deflationists are right, or the Fed's interventions are working." " Anonymous Casey Research reader
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Weimar vs USA: The Fall Of The Second Empire Of Debt
04-01-2013
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zerohedge.com
While being distracted by the developments of this insolvent European sovereign or that, coupled with increasingly prevalent episodes of deposit confiscation, is all the rage these days, the fundamental problems summarized by these three simple words
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
David Stockman: We've Been Lied To, Robbed, And Misled
04-01-2013
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In "The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in America," Stockman lays out how we have devolved from a free market economy into a managed one that operates for the benefit of a privileged few. And when trouble arises, these few are bailed
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • European Union
Cyprus Parliament President Says "No Future" Under Troika, Calls For "Iceland" S
04-01-2013
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zerohedge.com
Just last week Yiannakis Omirou, Cypriot House of Representatives President, was calling for the nation to accept it is "time for responsibility" as they progressed towards a final solution;
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Central Banking Is Central Planning
04-01-2013
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The Daily Bell
A book review in the Wall Street Journal by associate professor of economics at San Jose State University Jeffrey Hummel entitled "The New Central Planning" tends to confirm the perspective that the Federal Reserve is under continued attack.
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News Link • World News
Pope Francis delivers the Urbi et Orbi
04-01-2013
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news.yahoo.com
Following is the official English language translation provided by the Vatican of Pope Francis' Easter Sunday message, delivered in Italian from the central balcony of St. Peter's Basilica.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Obama Administration
‘Obama must be thinking he has better things to do than tend to 166 Arabs stuck in Gitmo’
04-01-2013
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RT.com
Obama, the one person with the authority to shut down Guantanamo, lacks the political will to put the issue at the top of his priorities, Thomas Wilner, an attorney representing Gitmo inmates, told RT.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Activism
Prison-Wide Hunger Strike Still Rages at Guantánamo
04-01-2013
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http://fff.org, by Andy Worthington
Three weeks ago, I wrote an article entitled, “A Huge Hunger Strike at Guantánamo,” in which I reported the stories emerging from Guantánamo of a prison-wide hunger strike, the most severe since George W. Bush was president, and the gulf between what
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Robert Lee
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News Link • r3VOLution Continues
Nigel Farage tweets about dinner with Ron Paul *update*
04-01-2013
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http://www.dailypaul.com, fonzdrew
Had dinner with Ron Paul last night.100 per cent genuine and a real pleasure
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Egypt
22 Egyptian policemen injured in attacks on police stations
04-01-2013
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news.xinhuanet.com
At least 22 policemen were injured in Egypt in attacks on two police stations in the governorates of Alexandria and Beheira, north of the capital Cairo, state-run news agency MENA reported Saturday.
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Gun Rights
NY SAFE Act Nabs its First Gun Owner: An Iraq War vet (VIDEO)
04-01-2013
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http://www.guns.com, by S.H. Blannelberry
A Western New York man now faces seven years in prison for violating Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s new gun control-law, the NY Secure Ammunition and Firearms Enforcement Act (or SAFE Act).
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Self-Defense
Texas DA Slain in His Home; Had Armed Himself
04-01-2013
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By NOMAAN MERCHANT and NICHOLAS RICCARDI
Kaufman County District Attorney Mike McLelland took no chances after one of his assistant prosecutors was gunned down two months ago. McLelland said he carried a gun everywhere he went and was extra careful when answering the door at his home.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Ecuador raises Julian Assange case with Labour
04-01-2013
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The Guardian
Diplomat brings up subject of WikiLeaks founder taking refuge in embassy at meeting with Kerry McCarthy MP
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Environment
Something Is Killing Up To Half Of America's Bees
04-01-2013
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popsci.com
Whatever's killing honeybees is getting worse, but we still don't know what it is.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
China to Get Its Own Special Version of Iron Man 3
04-01-2013
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Wired.com
In this era of director’s cuts, extra DVD footage and “special editions,” it’s not exactly a big deal for there to be multiple versions or lengths across its different theater and home viewing iterations.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Bitcoin
As Feds Suggest ‘Guidance,’ Bitcoin Foundation Pushes Back
04-01-2013
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slashdot
Bitcoin is under increased scrutiny by regulators as it increases in value. But the Bitcoin Foundation wants nothing to do with them.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • China
Australia And China To Enable Direct Currency Convertibility...Bye Bye US Dollar
04-01-2013
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Zero Hedge
Australian is set to say goodbye to the world's "reserve currency" in its trade dealings with economic power, China, and will enable the direct convertibility of the Australian dollar into Chinese yuan, without US Dollar intermediation
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Food
Birch Syrup Explored as Add-on to Maple Industry
04-01-2013
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AP
Unlike maple syrup-drenched Vermont and lobster-rich Maine, New Hampshire doesn't have much to call its own in the food world. But a future claim to fame in birch syrup, a nontraditional but increasingly popular product pulled from New Hampshire's st
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Propaganda
War Scare in Korea " A Manufactured Crisis
03-29-2013
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Lewrockwell.com
The United States and the two feuding Koreas could blunder into a real war unless both Pyongyang and Washington cease provoking one another.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
The Trial of Hank Rearden (Atlas Shrugged 2 Court Scene)
03-29-2013
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Daily Paul.com
Here is the court scene in Atlas Shrugged Part 2 where Hank Rearden is tried in court for selling steel secretly behind the Fair Shares Law.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Poverty in the U.S.A: Nearly 50 Million Americans on Food Stamps
03-29-2013
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http://www.globalresearch.ca, By Kate Randall
US food stamp use swells to a record 47.8 million
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gun Rights
Obama Signs Executive Order to Bolster Gun Registry
03-30-2013
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http://www.activistpost.com,
President Obama has not just been speaking in front of cameras with victims of gun violence staged behind him, he's also been busy bypassing Congress by signing executive orders and other actions.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • False Flag Operations
False Flag Attacks in Syria Pin Atrocities on Assad and Justify "Red Line" Engagement
03-30-2013
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http://www.activistpost.com, Brandon Turbeville
Only days after the chemical weapons attack inside Syria, the Israeli, US, and NATO governments are doing everything in their power to not only push the idea that the “red line” of the Obama administration has been crossed, but also to maintain the f
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News Link • Books
Nothing New Under the Sun, Especially With Leviathan A Review of Morgan Wade’s The Last Stoic
03-30-2013
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LewRockwell.com
The Last Stoic is his novelistic answer. It presents two boys, one named Marcus who’s a subject of the Roman Empire and the other, Mark, living in the American one. Eighteen hundred years may separate these doppelgangers, but their lives and experie
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News Link • Depression
This Is What It Feels Like To Have Your Life Savings Confiscated By The Global Elite
03-29-2013
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www.activistpost.com
As you will see below, there are small businesses and aging retirees who have been absolutely devastated by the wealth confiscation that has taken place in Cyprus.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Afghanistan
Strong American role still exists at Afghan-controlled prison
03-29-2013
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Washington Post
Days after the Parwan detention center was ceremoniously transferred to Afghan control, its courtroom was full of American bailiffs, American advisers and American attorneys.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Maryland Senate approves gas tax increase; gun-control bill survives House panel’s fight
03-29-2013
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Washington Post
Maryland lawmakers gave final approval to the first increase in the state’s gas tax in 20 years, acting to replenish a transportation fund that is rapidly running out of money for highway construction and long-planned mass-transit projects.
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News Link • TAXES: State
Republican governor wants scheduled sales tax decrease cancelled
03-29-2013
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AP
Gov. Sam Brownback said Kansas' "budget reality" will push lawmakers toward his proposal to cancel a scheduled decrease in the state sales tax. Brownback said legislators have limited options for stabilizing the budget while seeking tax cuts
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
3 dozen indicted in Atlanta cheating scandal
03-29-2013
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Washington Post
The former superintendent of Atlanta Public Schools and nearly three dozen other administrators, teachers, principals and other educators were indicted Friday in one of the nation’s largest cheating scandals.
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Judge finds for banks, dismisses most claims in Libor lawsuits
03-29-2013
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Reuters
A judge on Friday dismissed a "substantial portion" of claims facing a number of banks in a barrage of lawsuits accusing them of interest-rate rigging.
U.S. District Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald in Manhattan ruled for the banks, which include Bank o
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News Link • Healthcare
Video: Planned Parenthood Official Argues for Right to Post-Birth Abortion
03-29-2013
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weeklystandard.com
Florida legislators considering a bill to require abortionists to provide medical care to an infant who survives an abortion were shocked during a committee hearing this week when a Planned Parenthood official endorsed a right to post-birth abortion.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
American Terrorist in Syria Was Working For CIA, Says Father
03-29-2013
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Prison Planet
The father of U.S. Army veteran Eric Harroun, arrested on Tuesday night by the FBI for fighting alongside an Al-Qaeda group in Syria, says his son was working for the CIA.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gun Rights
Obama uses executive power to move gun control agenda forward
03-29-2013
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Prison Planet
President Obama is quietly moving forward on gun control.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Congress-Congressmen
Congressional Abdication on Foreign Policy
03-29-2013
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Daily Paul.com
Former Democratic Senator Jim Webb decries the fact that Congress has surrendered its foreign policy and warmaking powers to the office of the president:
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