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Date Sent: 2013-04-19
Freedom's Phoenix PM Edition for Friday, April 19, 2013 |
1 of 2 suspects in Boston bombing killed -- Obama taking action on gun background check system
Fitch Downgrades United Kingdom to 'AA+'; Outlook Stable -- Revealed – the capitalist network that
runs the world -- UPDATE FROM STEWART RHODES ON LEXINGTON --
04-19-13 -- James Lane/Chris Emery (A Noble Lie) - Greg
Dixon - LISTEN LIVE on LRN.FM, 9-Noon (EST) -- CISPA Sneaked through
While You Were Distracted -- Complaint Requesting Injunction Against
Lexington Interfering With Rally -- Five myths about the start of
the Revolutionary War -- Why Government Should Be The First Suspect In Any Terror
Attack -- Suspect
in Boston Marathon bombing died of gunshot and possible blast
wounds, doctor says --
What’s Riskier Than Bitcoins? Bitcoin Companies -- Watertown, Mass., Shut Down
in Manhunt for Second Boston Marathon Suspect -- Taxation is Theft -- Bush and Obama: Dangerous Narcissists
AZ: Join Peace Mom Cindy Sheehan/Tour de Peace Cyclists TOMORROW Sat, April 20, 11 a.m. at McCain/Flake's PHX; Arizona
State University 420 Event; Spring Party and meet
Cindy Sheehan at the Hancock's, Sat 4/20/13 @ 4pm til ???
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News Link • TERRORISM
1 of 2 suspects in Boston bombing killed
04-19-2013
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Associated Press
The two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing killed an MIT police officer and hurled explosives at police in a car chase and gun battle overnight that left one of them dead and his brother on the loose, authorities said Friday as thousands of offi
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News Link • Gun Rights
Obama taking action on gun background check system
04-19-2013
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AP
Blocked by Congress from expanding gun sale background checks, President Barack Obama is turning to actions within his own power to keep people from buying a gun who are prohibited for mental health reasons.
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News Link • Marc Victor
Arizona State University 420 Event
04-18-2013
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Mike Wasdin
Marc J. Victor speaking at the Students for Liberty 420 Event at Arizona State University. Marc talked to a large crowd about freedom and the right to control your own body, He explained that the government has no right to wage a war on marijuana or
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News Link • Events: Arizona
Spring Party and a chance to meet Cindy Sheehan at the Hancock's, Sat 4/20/13 @ 4pm til ???
04-05-2013
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www.meetup.com/RonPaulPhoenix
Spring Party at the Hancock's and a chance to meet and hang out with Cindy Sheehan as she travels thru Phoenix on her Tour de Peace bike ride across the country. There will be other riders here along with Cindy, so come down and show them the LOV3!
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Energy
Google Floats Renewable Energy Data Center Plan
04-19-2013
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Technologyreview.com
Google tries to use its buying clout to prod utilities to offer renewable energy option.
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News Link • TERRORISM
Why Government Should Be The First Suspect In Any Terror Attack
04-19-2013
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www.prisonplanet.com
History tells us that false flag is a favored form of statecraft
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • History
Five myths about the start of the Revolutionary War
04-19-2013
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National Constitution Center
The American Revolutionary War started on April 19, 1775, at the towns of Lexington and Concord. But how accurate are some of the key facts that have been handed down to us through the generations?
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News Link • Economy - International
Fitch Downgrades United Kingdom to 'AA+'; Outlook Stable
04-19-2013
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Reuters
Fitch Ratings has downgraded the United Kingdom's Long-term foreign and local currency Issuer Default Ratings (IDR) to 'AA+' from 'AAA'. The Outlook is Stable.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
It's Time for Next Phase in Search for Alien Life, Scientists Say
04-19-2013
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space.com
With more and more Earth-like alien planets being discovered around the galaxy, humanity should now start planning out the next steps in its hunt for far-flung alien life, researchers say.
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Russian Cosmonauts Take Spacewalk Outside Space Station
04-19-2013
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space.com
Two Russian cosmonauts ventured outside the International Space Station Friday (April 19) to begin a six-hour spacewalk to upgrade the orbiting lab with new experiments.
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News Link • Just For Fun!
BLACK: My journey to yo-yo mastery
04-19-2013
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ted.com
Remember the days you struggled just to make a yo-yo spin, and if you were really fancy, to “walk the dog”? You ain’t seen nothin’ yet.
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News Link • Economy - International
Revealed " the capitalist network that runs the world
10-24-2011
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http://www.newscientist.com
As anti-capitalist protesters take to the streets, mathematics has teased apart the global economic network to show who's really pulling the strings
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News Link • Events: Arizona
UPDATE FROM STEWART RHODES ON LEXINGTON
04-19-2013
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Oathkeepers
On way to Concord Bridge to pay our respects and will be on Lexington Green by 11:30 am. - We are also waiting for call from court in Woburn, and will stop there to hear decision of judge on our request for an injunction against Town of Lexington sto
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News Link • Science
Population Peak in 2050?
04-19-2013
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arclein
A mathematical model developed by a team from the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM) and the CEU-San Pablo University, both from Spain, seems to confirm the lower estimate, in addition to a standstill and even a slight drop in the number of people
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Utility Industry Pending Solar Smack Down
04-19-2013
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arclein
Back in January, the Edison Electric Institute " the (typically stodgy and backward-looking) trade group of U.S. investor-owned utilities " released a report [PDF] that, as far as I can tell, went almost entirely without notice in the press. That’s a
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robert klein
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News Link • Agriculture
Extreme Algal Blooms in Lake Erie
04-19-2013
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arclein
scientists combined sampling and satellite-based observations of the lake with computer simulations. The bloom began in the western region in mid-July and covered an area of 230 square miles (600 km2). At its peak in October, the bloom had exp
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News Link • Food
Overharvesting Our Future?
04-19-2013
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arclein
heir shocking findings are that shark fishing is now globally unsustainable. Their more recent estimates put the carnage at 97 million in 2010. The possible range of mortality is between 63 and 273 million annually. This equates to somewhere between
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robert klein
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News Link • Internet
CISPA Sneaked through While You Were Distracted
04-19-2013
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Ventura County Tea Party
While the blather about stealing the Second Amendment was going on, Obama and the Fascists passed CISPA Internet regulation, joining NDAA, "Patriot" Act, HR 347 and other repressive, UNCONSTITUTIONAL "laws" (if they're unconstitutional, they're not a
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Police State
Complaint Requesting Injunction Against Lexington Interfering With Rally
04-19-2013
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Oathkeepers
Oath Keepers has filed a Court complaint against the Town of Lexington requesting reinstatement of their permit to Rally on Lexington Battle Green. The permit was pulled by the Selectmen of Lexington, ostensibly because of the danger surrounding the
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • TERRORISM
Suspect in Boston Marathon bombing died of gunshot and possible blast wounds, doctor says
04-19-2013
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www.reuters.com
POLICE SCANNER: Trigger found on body; At-large bomber 'may be wearing suicide vest'...
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • TERRORISM
The stories of 2 brothers suspected in bombing
04-19-2013
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AP
Two brothers, one now dead, one alive and at large. After hours of only grainy images of two men in baseball caps to go on, a portrait gradually started emerging Friday of the men suspected in the attack.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
Man Miraculously Survives Boston AND Texas Explosions
04-19-2013
Two days later, the couple had returned to their home state of Texas. As he was traveling home from a meeting on Interstate 35, he and felt his second explosion in two days. The fertilizer plant in West, Texas exploded.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Bitcoin
What’s Riskier Than Bitcoins? Bitcoin Companies
04-19-2013
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Wired.com
Let’s say you believe that the price of gold is going to go through the roof (as opposed to where it has been going lately: the basement).
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News Link • Animals and Pets
Coming to Your Neighborhood: Giant Animal Invaders
04-19-2013
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Wired.com
Animal invaders can arrive by land, sea, or air. While most invasive species are unwelcome for one reason or another, some invaders up the creep factor simply by being giant versions of familiar animals.
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News Link • Police State
Watertown, Mass., Shut Down in Manhunt for Second Boston Marathon Suspect
04-19-2013
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ABC News
The city of Watertown, Mass., has been effectively shut down as a manhunt is underway for the second suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Social Security
Taxation is Theft
04-19-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
With a tax code that exceeds 72,000 pages in length and consumes more than six billion person hours per year to determine taxpayers’ taxable income, with an IRS that has become a feared law unto itself, and with a government that continues to extract
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Currencies
Presidential Candidate Darryl W. Perry Becomes the First Presidential Candidate to accept Bitcoin
04-19-2013
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Darryl W. Perry
NEWS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 19, 2013, Keene, NH - On this date in 1775, the first shots of the American Revolution were fired. Today, Presidential candidate Darryl W. Perry announces that he will be the first Presidential candidate t
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News Link • Police State
Twitter Is The New Police Scanner
04-18-2013
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Kelsey D. Atherton via PopSci.com
After the explosions yesterday at the Boston Marathon, police departments used social media to send out immediate updates.
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Feature Article • Drug War
Rich Paul, Guilty On All Charges
Powell Gammill
Rich’s trial for selling cannabis resumes at 9a. As you may already be aware, Rich is heroically facing 81 years in prison for selling cannabis. He has refused the plea deals and will be facing trial by jury.
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News Link • New World Order
Megaregions of the United States
04-18-2013
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Wikipedia
Megaregions of the United States are clustered networks of American cities whose population ranges or is projected to range from about 7 to 63 million by the year 2025
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • r3VOLution Continues
Ron Paul Delegate Sues City of St. Peters Over Caucus Arrest
04-18-2013
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Yahoo! News blog
The plaintiff alleges two police officers, hired by GOP leaders to provide security at the meeting, were told to "expect 'trouble'" from Paul supporters. Stafford claims in his complaint that the "'trouble' ... was that Ron Paul would win."
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News Link • Agriculture
Rescuers searching for victims of Texas fertilizer plant blast
04-18-2013
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Reuters
Rescue crews searched the wreckage of a fertilizer plant and dozens of demolished homes for bodies on Thursday after a fiery explosion injured more than 160 people and prompted the evacuation of half a small Texas town.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
College Professor Arrested for Profane Rant at Pro-Life Students
04-18-2013
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Professor Laura Curry screamed at students, yelling at them: “Where does it say I can’t use the f**k word in public. I can swear because that’s part of my vocabulary. That’s part of my First Amendment rights.”
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News Link • Afghanistan
Pakistan's Musharraf flees court as judges order his arrest
04-18-2013
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Reuters
Former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf was forced to flee a courtroom on Thursday moments after judges ordered his arrest, dealing a fresh blow to his fast-fading hopes of reviving his political career at next month's general elections.
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama Covering Up Saudi Link to Boston Bombing?
04-18-2013
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InfoWars
The Saudi “person of interest” suspected of being involved in the Boston Marathon bombings is being deported from the United States on “national security grounds,” after an unscheduled meeting between Obama and Saudi Foreign Minister
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Cop in slow McDonald's line accused of aiming gun at customer ahead of him
04-18-2013
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NBC News (video)
A police officer who was waiting in the drive-thru line at a McDonald's restaurant in Forsyth County is accused of pulling a gun on the customer ahead of him because the officer was angry at having to wait for his food.
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News Link • Drug War
Court: Police Can't Force Blood Tests
04-17-2013
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Washington Post
The Supreme Court ruled police can't force a drunken driving suspect to submit to a blood draw unless they have a warrant or can show an urgent need to act without one. The 8-1 opinion rejected a position backed by the Obama administration
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Justices Bar Nigerian Human Rights Case From U.S. Courts
04-17-2013
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New York Times
The Supreme Court ruled Nigerian plaintiffs who said foreign oil companies had been complicit in violating their human rights may not sue in American courts limiting a 1789 law that had been used to address human rights abuses abroad.
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News Link • TERRORISM
Arrest made in ricin case; mailings are an eerie echo of 2001 anthrax attacks
04-17-2013
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Washington Post
Authorities had arrested Paul Kevin Curtis of Corinth, Miss., as a suspect in the ricin mailings, the FBI said in a statement. Curtis also sent a third letter to a Mississippi justice official, the FBI said. He is well known to law enforcement as a f
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News Link • General Opinion
Commentary on Violence & A Review/Recommendation of the film “Funny Games U.S.”
04-13-2013
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Christine Smith's Blog
To be in denial of reality is always a weakness, and it is there I place many others when it comes to the subject of violence. Violence " it can be aggressive…and it can be non-aggressive (truly defensive).
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News Link • European Union
Farage Unleashed: "You Are Common Criminals"
04-17-2013
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http://www.zerohedge.com, Tyler Durden
"Years ago, Mrs Thatcher recognized the truth behind the European Project," UKIP's Nigel Farage reminds his European Parliament 'colleagues', "she saw that it was about taking away democracy from nation states and handing that power to largely unacco
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News Link • Foreign Policy
US Senate: Will back Israeli attack on Iran
04-17-2013
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http://www.ynetnews.com, Yitzhak Benhorin
Foreign Relations Committee of the US Senate votes in favor of resolution stipulating that US will support Israel in case it was forced to take military action against Iran
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Conspiracies
Reality Check: Did the FBI know about Boston bombing beforehand? - Ben Swann
04-17-2013
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http://www.youtube.com, MikeHansonArchives
Did the FBI know about Boston bombing beforehand?
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News Link • Obama Administration
Everything You Need To Know About Ricin, The Poison Mailed To President Obama
04-17-2013
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http://www.popsci.com, By Dan Nosowitz
Ricin is one of the most poisonous substances on Earth, it's scarily easy to make, and somebody is mailing it to the President and at least one U.S. senator. What it is, how it works, and more, inside.
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Blowback at Boston?
04-17-2013
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http://fff.org, by Jacob G. Hornberger
In my article last February entitled “Coming to a City Near You? Assassination and Sanction Blowback,” I wrote:
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Ron Paul: Bradley Manning Deserves Nobel Peace Prize More Than Obama
04-17-2013
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J.D. Tuccille
When former congressman Ron Paul remarks that military whistleblower and current guest of Uncle Sam, Bradley Manning, is more deserving of the Nobel Peace Prize than is actual recipient Barack Obama.
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News Link • Syria
Evidence of Nerve Gas in Aleppo Deaths
04-17-2013
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ABC News
"I knew then that there were chemicals in the air and I told everyone to get out. I screamed for help and saw my neighbors come in," Yasser said, recounting the horror he experienced while recuperating at a hospital in Afrin, north of Aleppo.
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Texas Wife of Ex-Judge Charged With Capital Murder
04-17-2013
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AP
The wife of a former judge was charged Wednesday with capital murder in connection with the slayings of a North Texas district attorney, his wife and an assistant prosecutor, a law enforcement official said.
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
United States, NATO monopolizing global arms trade: Mike Gravel
04-17-2013
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Press TV
A former US Senator says Congress will not stop the expansion of the US military industrial complex and seeks to globalize weapons on the back of its NATO relationship.
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