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Date Sent: 2010-06-02
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Wednesday, June 2, 2010 |
Glitch shows how much US military relies on GPS -- Israel: 'Next time we'll use more force'
Goldman Sachs Sold 44% of its BP stock THREE weeks before the Disaster -- Google phasing out use of Windows over security concerns --
3 Fla. banks, 1 each in Nev., Calif. shut down -- Mossad chief: Israel
gradually becoming burden on U.S. -- Segregated clubs in Kentucky raise
issues for private business, civil rights law -- Right to Remain Silent? Suspect Better Speak Up -- Ayaan Hirsi Ali condemns AAP proposal to "nick" Muslim girls
-- Consumers Saving to Save the US Economy - by Bill Bonner -- Israeli
Citizens Cheer the Death of Gaza Relief Ship Passengers -- Cops Murder Elderly Woman Who Refused To Answer Census -- The Gulf States Economic Catastrophe -- Put Patients and Doctors Back in Control of Healthcare - by Ron Paul -- Mom, Son Reunited After 2-Year CPS Nightmare -- USS Liberty Survivor detained by Israel -- Soaring costs force Canada to reassess health model
-- The Westward shift of the Republican Party -- Euro hits new 4-year
low against dollar -- First Retina Created from Stem Cells -- Secret Saudi Oil Spill Cleanup -- Canada's War on Islam: The Case of Mohamed Harkat - by Stephen Lendman
AZ: Strategic Edge Breakfast Thurs., Attorney Sean Larkin on Sheriff Arpaio vs. Free Speech
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News Link • Military
Glitch shows how much US military relies on GPS
06-01-2010
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AP
A problem that rendered as many as 10,000 U.S. military GPS receivers useless for days is a warning to safeguard a system that enemies would love to disrupt, a defense expert says.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Palestine -- Israel
Israel: 'Next time we'll use more force'
06-01-2010
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Jerusalem Post
Israel will use more aggressive force in the future to prevent ships from breaking the sea blockade on the Gaza Strip, a top Navy commander said. "We boarded the ship and were attacked as if it was a war," the officer said. "That will mean that we wi
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Immigration
Peruvian child becomes symbol of US undocumented
06-01-2010
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New Zealand Herald
"My mum says that Barack Obama is taking away everybody that doesn't have papers," Daisy told the US first lady at the New Hampshire Estates Elementary School. "But my mum doesn't have papers," said Daisy, a US citizen by virtue of her birth.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Corruption
Goldman Sachs Sold 44% of its BP stock THREE weeks before the Disaster
06/02/2010
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godlikeproductions.com
Goldman Sachs sold 44% of its BP Stock, Three weeks before the Oil Rig disaster.
Want Proof?
HERE IT IS... http://moneycentral.msn.com/ownership?Holding=Institutional+Ownership&Symbol=BP
This is a list of the institutional owners of BP stock
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Reported by:
Phennommennonn GLP
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News Link • World News
Saudi youths in trouble over MTV reality show
06-01-2010
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Reuters
Saudi Arabia's religious police are trying to bring to court three Saudi youths for challenging the kingdom's austere lifestyle on an MTV reality show -- a new test of the country's stated commitment to reform.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Technology: Software
Google phasing out use of Windows over security concerns
06-01-2010
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Reuters
Web search group Google Inc is phasing out internal use of rival Microsoft Corp's Windows operating system because of security concerns following a Chinese hacking incident, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
3 Fla. banks, 1 each in Nev., Calif. shut down
06-01-2010
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AP
Regulators on Friday shut down three banks in Florida and one each in Nevada and California, bringing the number of U.S. bank failures this year to 78.
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. took over the Florida banks, all owned by holding company B
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
A worldwide financial crisis couldn't happen again. Could it?
06-01-2010
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The Observer
Optimists see economies shaking off recession and corporate results improving. But pessimists see a growing debt crisis and a new slump that the world would be powerless to halt.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Israel
Mossad chief: Israel gradually becoming burden on U.S.
06-01-2010
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Haaretz
Meir Dagan says Israel has turned from an asset to a burden; Senior IDF officer says the IDF didn't sabotage a Gaza aid ship in bid to avoid humanitarian crisis.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Segregated clubs in Kentucky raise issues for private business, civil rights law
06-01-2010
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Washington Post
At lunchtime on days when the weather was nice, a black preacher and civil rights activist would put up a folding card table in front of one of the many unofficially restricted clubs; set it with a tablecloth, china and candles; and dine on buns and
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Right to Remain Silent? Suspect Better Speak Up
06-01-2010
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AP
Suspects must break their silence and tell police they are going to remain quiet to stop an interrogation, just as they must tell police that they want a lawyer. Police can keep shooting questions at a suspect who refuses to talk as long as they want
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Religion: Non-Believers - Atheists
Ayaan Hirsi Ali condemns AAP proposal to "nick" Muslim girls
05-29-2010
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The Daily Beast
Ayaan Hirsi Ali argues the American Academy of Pediatrics' proposal to aid in female genital mutilation gives tacit support to a practice which should be condemned outright.
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Mike Renzulli
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Opinion • Immigration
Who is Russell Pearce Really Targeting?
06-01-2010
Mike Renzulli
Like many others Mike Renzulli initially had concerns with Arizona's controversial new immigration law SB 1070. He did some research to see if much of what SB 1070's critics charge will occur under Arizona's new state statute.
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News Link • Surveillance
Salt River Project buys smart meters for stimulus project
05-18-2010
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Phoenix Business Journal, by Patrick O'Grady
Salt River Project has begun purchasing more than 500,000 smart meters it plans to install, thanks in part to a $56.9 million stimulus grant from the U.S. Government. Smart meters are designed to give constant information both to utilities and homeo
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Michele Power
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News Link • Israel
Barbarism on the High Seas:
America’s Complicity in Evil
06-01-2010
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PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS
has Obama made America complicit once again in Israel’s barbaric war crimes. Just as the US Congress voted to deep-six Judge Goldstone’s report on Israel’s war crimes committed in Israel’s January 2009 invasion of Gaza, Obama has deep-sixed Israel’s
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Andrew Strmic
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News Link • Humor
World Collapse Explained in 3 Minutes
06-01-2010
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youtube
Who owes who? Who owns who? And where is the money coming from?
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Remember When Teenagers Used To Work Over Summer Vacations?
06-01-2010
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Businessinsider.com/
But this year, the job market for teens will become more congested and competitive. EconomPic points out that this could be the worst summer for jobs for teenagers since the Great Depression...
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Israel
Israeli Citizens Cheer the Death of Gaza Relief Ship Passengers
06-01-2010
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YouTube.com
May 31, 2010 " Israelis celebrating attack on Turkish Aid Ship - infront of Turkish Embassy,Tel Aviv...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Census
Cops Murder Elderly Woman Who Refused To Answer Census
06-01-2010
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youtube
Cops Murder Elderly Woman Who Refused To Answer Census in the middle of the night.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Israel
U.S. Refuses To Blame Israel For Deadly Raid in International Waters
06-01-2010
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RawStory.com
The White House declined Tuesday to specifically condemn Israel for its raid on a humanitarian flotilla, but said it showed Middle East peace moves were now needed more than ever.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
Fluff and Buff: The Women of CNBC Thrive Amidst a Depression
06-01-2010
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Businessinsider.com/
So we thought it was a good time to bring you up to date on the women of CNBC and give you a breakdown of what they do. Especially because they're a big part of the network's ongoing success.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Al-Qaida: No. 3 official killed with family
06-01-2010
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AP
Al-Qaida announced its No. 3 official, Mustafa al-Yazid, had been killed along with members of his family - perhaps one of the most severe blows to the terror movement since the U.S. campaign against al-Qaida began. Believed to have died in a U.S. mi
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
Churning Jobs: More Census Worker Horror Stories
06-01-2010
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EconomicPolicyJournal.com
Was Census churning jobs to make the economy look healthier than it really is?
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Agatha Heads North: "Coup De Gras" for the Gulf States?
06-01-2010
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Businessinsider.com/
Things are getting off to a bad start. This weekend, Tropical Depression Agatha killed over 100 in Central America. And look, it's heading through the Gulf of Mexico.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Palestine -- Israel
In raw video, reporters claim Israelis fired on activists before boarding ship
06-01-2010
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Rawstory
In raw video captured by Al Jazeera and published to YouTube, journalists provide a play-by-play of the harrowing event as pops and cracks echo in the background. Even before the Israeli forces were aboard, one says, they were pelting the boat with t
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The Gulf States Economic Catastrophe: 9000 days and a dying economy
06-01-2010
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TheAutomaticEarth.blogspot.com
The five affected US Gulf states alone have, between them, a $2.2 trillion economy. Cut that in half, which could easily happen if there’s oil all over the place, and you have a nationwide economic disaster, coming on top of everything else.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Precious Metals
Gold To $10,000?
06-01-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
The supply backdrop is also highly conducive to a sustained bull market. Mined production is no higher now than it was a decade ago and has fallen outright in 5 of the past 8 years.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Coast Guard: BP Efforts To End Flow From Gulf Well Are Over
06-01-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
BP Plc has given up trying to plug its leaking well in the Gulf of Mexico any sooner than August, laying out a series of steps to pipe the oil to the surface and ship it ashore for refining, said Thad Allen, the U.S. government’s national commander..
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Palestine -- Israel
USS Liberty Survivor detained by Israel
06-01-2010
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http://www.whec.com/news/stories/S1584439.shtml?ca
Joe Meadors, survivor of the Israeli attack on the USS Liberty was hoping to drop a wreath off the coast of Gaza to honor his ship and shipmates. He is now one hundreds detained after the attack on the flotilla in international waters.
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George Karski
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News Link • Family
Mom, Son Reunited After 2-Year CPS Nightmare
05/30/2010
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www.fathersandfamilies.org
The case that’s dropped jaws all across the U.S. and Canada is finally coming to an end. Judge Kip Leonard is finally allowing Noah Kirkman to return to his native Calgary after two years in foster care in Oregon.
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Glenn Sacks
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
The Westward shift of the Republican Party
05-29-2010
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Slate
Since the second Bush left the White House, something different appears to be happening in the Republican Party: a shift away from Southern-style conservatism to more of a Western variety.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Healthcare
Soaring costs force Canada to reassess health model
06-01-2010
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Reuters
Pressured by an aging population and the need to rein in budget deficits, Canada's provinces are taking tough measures to curb healthcare costs, a trend that could erode the principles of the popular state-funded system.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Agriculture
West Poised for Worst Grasshopper Outbreak in 30 Years
06-01-2010
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LiveScience
The worst grasshopper outbreak in decades may envelop the western states this summer, scientists warn. A dramatic rise in the number of grasshoppers was found during a survey of the western states conducted last year, by the U.S. Department of Agricu
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Activism
Outraged Citizens To Protest Unjust Arrest In Allentown, PA
06-01-2010
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The International Libertarian
Reacting to the May 11, 2010 arrest of Fully Informed Jury
Association activist George Donnelly, the newly formed “Friends of George Donnelly” will rally at the federal courthouse in Allentown, PA at 11:15 AM on June 4, 2010.
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Darren Wolfe
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News Link • Economy - International
Euro hits new 4-year low against dollar
06-01-2010
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AP
The euro hit another 4-year low against the dollar as worries that European banks could still face large loan losses next year added to concerns about the continent's economic outlook. The euro hit $1.2112 in European trading " its lowest since it sa
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Biological Legos
06-01-2010
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arclein
The new technique, dubbed “micromasonry”, employs a gel-like material that acts like concrete, binding the cell “bricks” together as it hardens. The tiny cell bricks hold potential for building artificial tis
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robert klein
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News Link • Oil Spill - Gulf of Mexico
Secret Saudi Oil Spill Cleanup
06-01-2010
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arclein
"No one's listening," says Nick Pozzi, who was an engineer with Saudi Aramco in the Middle East when he says an accident there in 1993 generated a spill far larger than anything the United States has ever seen.
An engineer who witnessed a crude
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
First Retina Created from Stem Cells
06-01-2010
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arclein
We made a complex structure consisting of many cell types. This is a major advance in our quest to treat retinal disease. What’s so exciting with our discovery is that creating transplantable retinas from stem cells could help millions of people, and
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robert klein
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News Link • Climate Change
Arctic Sea Ice Volume Increases 25%
06-01-2010
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arclein
In 2008, less than half of the ice (47%) was greater than two metres thick. Now, more than 75% of the ice is greater than two metres thick. In 2008, 18% of the ice was more than three metres thick. This year that number has increased to 28%.
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robert klein
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News Link • Palestine -- Israel
Flotillas and the Wars of Public Opinion
05-31-2010
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Stratfor Global Intelligence
The flotilla achieved its strategic mission. It got Israel to take violent action against it. In doing so, Israel ran into its own fist.
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Darren Wolfe
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