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Date Sent: 2011-03-29
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Tuesday, March 29, 2011 PM edition |
U.S. says Libyan rebels may sell oil -- U.S. Marines prepare to deploy off Libyan coast
Wow That Was Fast! Libyan Rebels Have Already Established A New Central Bank Of Libya -- Egypt Junta: Mubarak, Family Under House Arrest -- Israel’s Controversial Citizenship Act Passes -- Yemen's Saleh tried to get Saudis to kill rival: WikiLeaks -- Yemenis blame Saleh as security deteriorates -- Obama Lauds ‘Historic’ War in Libya -- Turkey Seeks to Broker Cease-Fire in Libya -- Syrian cabinet resigns amid unrest -- World powers discuss Libya's future
-- Obama's Libya Speech Fact Checked: How The Claims Fit The Facts --
Scientists to Reap Benefits of Private Spaceflight Revolution -- Middle East Arms Expo an Oddly Peaceful Scene --
What is rapidly becoming the biggest danger to freedom -- Charles
Goyette: "The Dollar Meltdown" in Chinese / Michael Kielsky: "Atlas
Shrugged" -- EU to ban cars from cities by 2050 -- Cash for Clunkers 2: The Return of Government Motors -- Pentagon: Libya mission has cost US $550M so far -- Anne Tompkins: Tyranny's Whore - by Larken Rose -- Virtual war a real threat -- Peace activists get jail time for Navy base breach -- Radiation from airport scanners very low: study -- Rumor Mill: Obama To Nominate General Petraeus To Head CIA -- John McCain, Carl Levin Back Obama On Libya Military Action -- Karen Kwiatkowski: Can We Live Free in an Unfree World -- Are Banks Scheming to Gut the Role of the Courts in Foreclosures? -- Darren Wolfe at the Agora I/O Unconference -- Japan's Leaking Water Radiation 100,000 Times Above Normal
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News Link • WAR: About that War
U.S. says Libyan rebels may sell oil
03-29-2011
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Reuters
The United States gave a green light to sales of Libyan crude oil from rebel-held territory, giving a potential boost to forces battling Muammar Gaddafi. A U.S. Treasury Department official said Libyan rebels would not be subject to U.S. sanctions if
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Lejeune Marines prepare to deploy off Libyan coast
03-29-2011
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ABC News (video)
Twenty-two hundred Marines and sailors from Camp Lejeune are preparing to deploy off the coast of Libya in northern Africa. They said goodbye to their families Monday afternoon, and they'll be leaving in the days ahead.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Energy
Wow That Was Fast! Libyan Rebels Have Already Established A New Central Bank Of Libya
03-29-2011
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prisonplanet.com
The rebels in Libya are in the middle of a life or death civil war and Moammar Gadhafi is still in power and yet somehow the Libyan rebels have had enough time to establish a new Central Bank of Libya and form a new national oil company.
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News Link • World News
Egypt Junta: Mubarak, Family Under House Arrest
03-29-2011
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news.antiwar.com
Denies Rumors Former Dictator Fled to Saudi Arabia
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Israel
Israel’s Controversial Citizenship Act Passes
03-29-2011
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news.antiwar.com
Law Will Allow Govt to Revoke Citizenship From Those 'Harming Israel's Sovereignty'
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Government
Yemen's Saleh tried to get Saudis to kill rival: WikiLeaks
03-29-2011
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news.yahoo.com
Yemen President Ali Abdallah Saleh tried to get Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar, now a leading dissident officer, killed last year by tricking Saudi forces into bombing his headquarters, a Norwegian daily said Monday, quoting a leaked US cable.
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News Link • World News
Yemenis blame Saleh as security deteriorates
03-29-2011
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english.aljazeera.net
Yemeni protesters demanding an end to President Ali Abdullah Saleh's rule said on Tuesday they would insist he leave power soon, blaming him for violence that has raised U.S. fears of chaos that could benefit militants.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • NATO
Turkey Seeks to Broker Cease-Fire in Libya
03-29-2011
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news.antiwar.com
Talking to Both Sides as 'Mediator' of Conflict
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • World News
Syrian cabinet resigns amid unrest
03-29-2011
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english.aljazeera.net
Government resigns as part of promised reforms after two weeks of protests, outgoing PM appointed caretaker premier.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
World powers discuss Libya's future
03-29-2011
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english.aljazeera.net
Hillary Clinton says coalition strikes will continue until Gaddafi complies with UN resolution as talks begin in London.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Obama's Libya Speech Fact Checked: How The Claims Fit The Facts
03-29-2011
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huffingtonpost.com
There may be less than meets the eye to President Barack Obama's statements Monday night that NATO is taking over from the U.S. in Libya and that U.S. action is limited to defending people under attack there by Moammar Gadhafi's forces.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Scientists to Reap Benefits of Private Spaceflight Revolution
03-29-2011
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space.com
A research institution that has inked landmark deals with two private spaceflight firms may be performing experiments in suborbital space within two years, one of its scientists says.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Gun Rights
Middle East Arms Expo an Oddly Peaceful Scene
03-29-2011
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wired.com
As Hollywood describes them, Middle Eastern arms deals are nefarious meet-ups in the middle of a desert with black SUVs, automatic weapons and metal briefcases, but the reality is more like a sterile, home-appliance trade show.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Activism
What is rapidly becoming the biggest danger to freedom
03-29-2011
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www.sovereignman.com
I’ve met few people in my life who love freedom as much as Ernie does, and the people in his circle definitely fall in the pro-liberty camp.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • New World Order
EU to ban cars from cities by 2050
03-29-2011
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Daily Telegraph
Cars will be banned from London and all other cities across Europe under a draconian EU masterplan to cut CO2 emissions by 60 per cent over the next 40 years.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Boondoggle and white elephants
Cash for Clunkers 2: The Return of Government Motors
03-29-2011
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Washington Times
Ready for another cash for clunkers program? It looks like General Motors is attempting to replace it's own consumer incentives with tax payer money. The car company, bailed out of bankruptcy in 2009 by the American tax payer, appears to be turning t
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Pentagon: Libya mission has cost US $550M so far
03-29-2011
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AP
The military intervention in Libya has cost the Pentagon an extra $550 million so far, mostly for bombs and missiles, officials said. The figure is not a full picture of the price tag for the operation in that it does not include such money as pay fo
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
Virtual war a real threat
03-29-2011
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Los Angeles Times
The U.S. is vulnerable to a cyber attack, with its electrical grids, pipelines, chemical plants and other infrastructure designed without security in mind. Some say not enough is being done to protect the country.
When a large Southern California wa
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Justin Tyme
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News Link • Activism
Peace activists get jail time for Navy base breachr
03-29-2011
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Reuters
5 elderly peace activists, 2 of them Jesuit priests, were sentenced to prison terms of 2 to 15 months for breaking into the Navy's Trident nuclear submarine base in Washington. The prison terms, to be followed by a year of supervised probation for ea
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Radiation from airport scanners very low: study
03-29-2011
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Reuters
Airport scanners are an "extremely low" source of radiation exposure that poses virtually no health risk, not even to frequent air travelers. "There is such a vast difference between super-low doses of radiation and the really high doses that happen
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
Rumor Mill: Obama To Nominate General Petraeus To Head CIA
03-29-2011
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FireDogLake.com
Barack Obama appears poised on the precipice of a move that could do more material damage to the US than his refusal to prosecute torturers, coddling of big business, healthcare sellout, escalation of existing wars and starting of a new one...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • WAR: About that War
John McCain, Carl Levin Back Obama On Libya Military Action
03-29-2011
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AP
The top Democrat and Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee say President Obama was right to use military force in Libya. Democratic Sen. Carl Levin and Republican John McCain made the comments at a congressional hearing
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Case-Shiller Index: Phoenix Housing Prices Will Soon Revisit The 1990s
03-29-2011
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Ritholtz.com
The Phoenix housing market will soon revisit the 1990s. Currently the Phoenix market rests at a level last seen in March, 2000.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • North American Union
North American Union: Quickening Pace of Deep Integration Agenda
03-29-2011
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InfoWars.com/
Much like the infamous Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America, this latest undertaking with the U.S. lacks transparency and thus far, Parliament and Congress have also been excluded from the whole process.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • World News
Libya woman "being sued by her alleged attackers"
03-29-2011
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Reuters
A Libyan woman who said she had been raped by pro-government militiamen is being sued for slander for naming her alleged attackers. Government spokesman said the woman faced court action because she had publicly named the men she accused of raping he
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Superconductivity Established Near 20C
03-29-2011
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arclein
In eight magnetization tests a small amount of the compound (Tl5Pb2)Ba2MgCu10O17+ consistently produced sharp diamagnetic transitions (the Meissner effect) near 20 Celsius (see above graphic), and resistive transitions that appeared near 18.5C (see
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News Link • Archaeology
Florida Tree Islands are Ancient Middens
03-29-2011
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arclein
These middens, a mixture of bones, food discards, charcoal, and human artifacts (such as clay pots and shell tools), would have provided an elevated area, drier than the surrounding marsh, allowing trees and other vegetation to grow. Bones also leake
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News Link • Archaeology
Giant Bunny
03-29-2011
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arclein
When the bunny lived approximately 3 million to 5 million years ago, it weighed about 26 pounds (12 kilograms), about six times the size of the living European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus). [Fossils of Oldest Rabbit Relative Found]
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robert klein
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News Link • U F O and Other Unidentified Stuff
Starchild Skull Conjecture
03-29-2011
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arclein
The reason I am writing this today is that the mtDNA work on the Starchild Skull has now delivered extraordinary evidence of everything I have just said within the mtDNA itself. The mtDNA is explainable only as enhanced primate mtDNA. The add-ins a
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robert klein
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News Link • Japan - Earthquake Tsunami Radiation
National Radiation Map
03-29-2011
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RadiationNetwork.com
Welcome to RadiationNetwork.com, home of the National Radiation Map, depicting environmental radiation levels across the USA, updated in real time every minute. This is the first web site where the average citizen (or anyone in the world) can see wh
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Justin Tyme
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News Link • Housing
Case Shiller: Home Prices Off to a Dismal Start in 2011
03-29-2011
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CalculatedRiskBlog.com & ZeroHedge.com
Case Shiller data is out, and it is as horrible as ever. The Home Price Index came at 140.86 compared to 142.42 previously. Basically the double dip refuses to stop...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Bill Bonner: Printing Money to Save the World
03-29-2011
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LewRockwell.com
Oh…and you can imagine what this does to the poor householder. He’s caught in the middle. The real economy pushes the value of his main asset down…while the feds push up the cost of his most important supplies " food and energy.
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News Link • Housing
New Rule: Banks Exempt from New Mortgage Rules
03-29-2011
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GlobalEconomicAnalysis.blogspot.com
90% of loans are sold to Fannie and Freddie . Thus, 90% of loans will be exempt from the new rule.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Are Banks Scheming to Gut the Role of the Courts in Foreclosures?
03-29-2011
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NakedCapitalism.com/
I strongly suspect that the intent is to pull as many contested foreclosures as possible out of the court process, particularly those that involve chain of title issues, since enough adverse rulings have the potential to blow up the entire...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Philosophy of Liberty
Karen Kwiatkowski: Can We Live Free in an Unfree World
03-29-2011
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LewRockwell.com
Liberty-minded people are extremely hard for the state to control. They make terrible soldiers and impolitic generals. They ask a lot of questions, and they listen carefully to the answers, attuned to falsehood and fallacies.
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News Link • Obama Administration
The New World Order's Bloodlust: Obama Addresses His Third Muslim War
03-29-2011
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TruthDig.com
The president made an effort Monday evening to explain, and perhaps to sell, his Libya strategy, saying “when our interests and values are at stake, we have a responsibility to act.”
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Darren Wolfe at the Agora I/O Unconference March 26, 2011 (video)
03-26-2011
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Focus On Peace
The founder of Focus on Peace, Darren Wolfe, speaks about the new organization at the Agora I/O unconference in Valley Forge, PA on March 26, 2011. He explains why there is a need for a peace movement that isn't part of the political left. Darren go
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Darren Wolfe
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Middle East unrest and the end of the world (Video)
03-29-2011
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The Political Commentator
The Iranian government sees the current unrest in the Middle East as a sign that the Twelfth Imam, Mahdi or Islamic messiah is about to appear!
And that is not necessarily being viewed as a bad thing! So while we in the west believe that war is a
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Michael Haltman
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Thoughts On The Liberty Dollar Debacle
03-29-2011
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By Brandon Smith
[off the chart read ED] I was in the midst of the Save America Convention in Tampa, Florida when I heard, first, that Libya was under bombardment by the UN (led by U.S. forces), and, that Bernard von NotHaus of Liberty Dollar had been convicted of “c
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News Link • TERRORISM
U.S. finds no organized Al Qaeda presence in Libya opposition, officials say
03-28-2011
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Los Angeles Times
Eastern Libya, the rebels' base, has a history as a breeding ground for Islamic militants, but an intelligence-gathering effort has not uncovered a significant number of extremists, officials say.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Media: Print
Anne Frank Center across street from Ground Zero Mosque
03-28-2011
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New York Post
The New York Post has learned that a museum commemorating the world's most famous Holocaust victim is planning to move across the street from the proposed site of the Ground Zero mosque.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Voting and Elections
Voting is Evil (C. Smith YouTube video)
03-28-2011
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Christine Smith's YouTube Channel
Christine Smith addresses the electoral process and common objections posed to those who reject voting for political offices because of a belief in non-aggression. Talk was 22 min. Video edited to YouTube 15-min. length-
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