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Date Sent: 2012-02-29
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Wednesday, February 29, 2012 PM edition |
Goodbye, First Amendment: ‘Trespass Bill’ will make protest illegal
North Korea agrees to halt nuclear activities for food -- Ron Paul Confronts Bernanke: “Do You Buy Your Own Groceries?” -- Forget $5 gas, the new worry is $6 gas -- Stocks Dip as Bernanke
Testimony Disappoints -- Another PR Crisis for Scientology -- A Sign Of Things To Come? Gas Prices Top $5 Per Gallon On Long Island -- Charter School's Troubling Twists - Scientology, bankruptcy protection and Louis Farrakhan -- After Wave Of Violence, Councilman Wants Gas Station Security -- Markets Start to Anticipate Obama Victory in November -- Microsoft
unveils Windows 8 for public test -- Woman arrested in 'The Senator'
tree fire -- Whatever Happened to Ted Turner? -- Soon: A Federal Offense To Protest Presidential Candidates or Political Conventions -- The Sun on Monday: Shocking scale of paper's corruption exposed at Leveson -- The Mossad Has Long Given Marching Orders to AIPAC -- See
this film and then say that bombing Iran is ok -- Fukushima, the
Criminal Complicity of Governments & What May Be in Store for US
Reactors -- Idaho OKs Seizure of Protesters' Property -- Wolf Blitzer Interviews Ron Paul 2-28-2012 -- Sweet Land of Liberty -- Janet Napolitano: The New J. Edgar Hoover? - by Nat Hentoff -- Homeland Security Feared ‘Occupy Wall Street’ Violence -- US Drone War Reaches Philippines -- Janet Napolitano Insists Drug War Not a Failure -- Latin America prepared for US financial bubble to burst -- California GOP convention occupied by Ron Paul supporters -- Obama
to Force Military Into ObamaCare Exchanges and Slash Healthcare Benefits
-- Planned Regime Change in Syria - by Stephen Lendman -- DNA Clues On Neanderthal Disappearance
AZ: Arizona Breakfast Club this
Saturday, March 3rd
Happy Birthday Carol Paul! Feb 29 B-Day M-Bomb
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Goodbye, First Amendment: ‘Trespass Bill’ will make protest illegal
02-29-2012
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RT
Just when you thought the government couldn’t ruin the First Amendment any further:
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Soon: A Federal Offense To Protest Presidential Candidates or Political Conventions
02-29-2012
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EconomicPolicyJournal.com
The House of Representatives approved a bill on Monday that outlaws protests in instances where some government officials are nearby, whether or not you even know it.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Foreign Policy
North Korea agrees to halt nuclear activities for food
02-29-2012
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www.prisonplanet.com
North Korea has agreed to halt nuclear tests, long-range missile launches and enrichment activities at its Yongbyon nuclear complex in exchange for food aid from the United States, the State Department said Wednesday.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Ron Paul Confronts Bernanke: “Do You Buy Your Own Groceries?”
02-29-2012
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www.prisonplanet.com
Tense stand off as Congressman notes Fed is destroying dollar purchasing power
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Forget $5 gas, the new worry is $6 gas
02-29-2012
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houston.culturemap.com
In line with much of Hofmeister's worries about unstable geopolitics, GasBuddy analyst Gregg Laskoski tells CultureMap that the current strife in the Middle East could push gasoline prices considerably higher than $5 a gallon.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Stocks Dip as Bernanke Testimony Disappoints
02-29-2012
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www.cnbc.com
Bernanke said the job market is still "far from normal" and may require the Fed to launch more stimulus measures, in his semi-annual monetary policy report to Congress.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Religion: Believers
Another PR Crisis for Scientology
02-29-2012
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abcnews.go.com
For 17 years Debbie Cook ran the church's spiritual mecca, the so-called Flag Base in Clearwater, Florida, where she ultimately rose to the title of captain. But Cook testified this month that beginning in 2005...
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
A Sign Of Things To Come? Gas Prices Top $5 Per Gallon On Long Island
02-29-2012
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newyork.cbslocal.com
Gulf station on Northern Boulevard in Great Neck really does say a gallon of regular will cost $4.99.9. Unless you have a spare 1/10th of a penny lying around, for all intents and purposes, that’s a $5 gallon of gasoline " $5.09 if you use a credit c
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Charter School's Troubling Twists - Scientology, bankruptcy protection and Louis Farrakhan
02-26-2012
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Sierra Vista Herald in Florida
One Friday afternoon in December, leaders of a tax-funded elementary school called Life Force Arts and Technology Academy shepherded students into a Scientology church in Tampa’s Ybor Square. The children were fed candy and pizza, given Scientology b
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News Link • Government
After Wave Of Violence, Councilman Wants Gas Station Security
02-29-2012
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CBS
Following a string of brutal killings and attacks, a city councilman is making bold suggestions to keep violent crimes down " including forcing gas station owners to hire security guards.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Markets Start to Anticipate Obama Victory in November
02-29-2012
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By: John Melloy
While President Obama may not be Wall Street's ideal candidate, stock prices are rising on growing expectations he will be re-elected this November.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Feisty Ron Paul Hangs in Despite Likely Poor Showing in Michigan, Arizona
02-29-2012
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By Mike Magner
Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, showed no signs of letting up in his campaign for reining in government and restoring civil liberties.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Technology: Software
Microsoft unveils Windows 8 for public test
02-29-2012
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By Bill Rigby
Microsoft Corp unveils the first widely available test version of Windows 8 on Wednesday, giving the public the first chance to try out the slick, new-look operating system it hopes will restore the company's fading tech supremacy.
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News Link • Political Parties
President Obama Suggests Romney Shoveling 'A Load of You-Know-What'
02-29-2012
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By Jake Tapper
As Michigan Republicans headed to the polls Tuesday morning, President Obama delivered an aggressive defense of the bailout of the auto industry and his presidency in general
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Anonymous
Interpol Arrests 25 Suspected Anonymous Hackers
02-29-2012
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MyFOXNY
Interpol has arrested 25 suspected members of the Anonymous hackers group in a swoop covering more than a dozen cities in Europe and Latin America, the global police body said Tuesday.
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Apple joins exclusive $500bn club
02-29-2012
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By Chris Nuttall and Richard Waters
Apple has joined an elite group of companies to reach a $500bn equity valuation amid expectations it is to launch a new version of the iPad next week.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Corruption
The Sun on Monday: Shocking scale of paper's corruption exposed at Leveson
02-29-2012
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Martin Hickman
Senior executives at The Sun spun a web of corruption across British public life
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Pandemic
Ebola for Beginners
02-29-2012
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by Jeff R.
CentOre’s February 7, 2012 article “Signs of the Times: What are the SHTF Tipping Points?” briefly touched on one point that I would like to expand on: Ebola and Marburg viruses.
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Happy Birthday Carol Paul! Feb 29 B-Day M-Bomb ~
02-29-2012
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by Michael Nystrom
Because Carol Paul is the bomb! Happy birthday Mrs. Paul, and many happy returns!
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Foreign Policy
The Mossad Has Long Given Marching Orders to AIPAC
02-29-2012
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by Grant Smith
AIPAC’s Washington policy conference next month is drawing intense scrutiny and unprecedented resistance. AIPAC has worked quietly for years to tripwire the United States into war with Iran.
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News Link • Iran
See this film and then say that bombing Iran is ok
02-29-2012
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Katherine Butler
You can only think it is morally legitimate when you have dehumanised Iranians as the enemy
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Japan - Earthquake Tsunami Radiation
Fukushima, the Criminal Complicity of Governments & What May Be in Store for US Reactors
02-29-2012
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Boiling Frogs
During the nuclear catastrophe at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan’s northeast last March, the world watched in horror as conditions in the plant deteriorated by the day.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Property Rights
Idaho OKs Seizure of Protesters' Property
02-29-2012
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By PHILIP A. JANQUART
Occupy Boise sued Gov. Butch Otter, claiming a new law aimed at them allows the state to seize private property without a warrant, without probable cause and without suspicion of a crime.
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News Link • Government
Summary of Giveaway of 8 American Alaskan Islands
to the Russian Government
02-29-2012
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statedepartmentwatch
The giveaway of 8 American Alaskan islands and vast resource-rich seabeds to the Russians
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Wolf Blitzer Interviews Ron Paul 2-28-2012
02-29-2012
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Submitted by ConstitutionFirst
Ron Paul killed it. Wolf asked what his strategy would be in Virginia, and he said it is going to be the same as it is in any state, sound money, personal freedom, etc etc. Loved it!
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News Link • Obama Administration
Sweet Land of Liberty -- Janet Napolitano: The New J. Edgar Hoover?
02-29-2012
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by Nat Hentoff
The Obama administration appears so confident of its expansion of the George W. Bush-Dick Cheney surveillance of our personal lives
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Robert Lee
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
Open Letter to Bill O’Reilly
02-29-2012
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by Don Boudreaux
Dear Mr. O’Reilly:
You’re all lathered up because U.S. oil companies are exporting much of their refined gasoline and heating oil to other countries and thereby putting upward pressure on fuel prices here in America.
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Bernanke on Ron Paul Hot Seat! Watch Live Today
02-29-2012
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Submitted by John P. Slevin
On Wednesday, February 29th, Ron Paul will grill Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, who appears before the House Financial Services Committee. Paul chairs the Subcommittee on Domestic Monetary Policy.
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News Link • Homeland Security
Homeland Security Feared ‘Occupy Wall Street’ Violence
02-29-2012
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Paul Joseph Watson
The Department of Homeland Security feared that the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations would turn violent during their height last year, according to a leaked document obtained by Rolling Stone Magazine.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Ralph Nader: Raise the Minimum Wage
02-29-2012
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By Chris Hedges
The Occupy movement may be able to forge a powerful alliance with millions of working men and women around a national call to raise the minimum wage to $10 an hour.
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News Link • World News
Brazil judge blocks Chevron, Transocean injunction
02-29-2012
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By Jeb Blount and Sabrina Lorenzi
A federal judge in Brazil declined to grant an injunction suspending the Brazilian operations of oil major Chevron and offshore oil-rig contractor.
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News Link • Iran
Iran FM: We Seek Negotiations and a Nuclear Weapons-Free Zone
02-29-2012
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by John Glaser
Iran seeks peaceful negotiation and a nuclear weapons-free zone in the Middle East, Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi said in a statement to the UN Conference on Disarmament in Geneva.
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News Link • Foreign Policy
US Drone War Reaches Philippines
02-29-2012
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by John Glaser
Some Filipino representatives have objected to encroaching US military domination
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News Link • Economy - International
Latin America prepared for US financial bubble to burst
02-29-2012
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pravada.ru
Latin America is rapidly changing the orientation of the old standards of economic policy dominated by the United States and welcomes the arrival of other world powers.
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News Link • Drug War
Janet Napolitano Insists Drug War Not a Failure
02-29-2012
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by John Glaser
U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano defended Washington’s failed war on drugs
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News Link • Food
Bill Gates, Monsanto, and eugenics
02-29-2012
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by: Ethan A. Huff, staff writer
After it was exposed that the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the philanthropic brainchild of Microsoft founder Bill Gates, purchased 500,000 shares in Monsanto back in 2010 valued at more than $23 million,
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News Link • World News
Al-Qaeda commander Saif al-Adel 'held at Cairo airport'
02-29-2012
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BBC
Senior al-Qaeda commander Saif al-Adel has been arrested at Cairo airport, Egyptian security officials say.
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
California GOP convention occupied by Ron Paul supporters
02-29-2012
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RT
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich was the only GOP contender for president to appear at a California Republican Party convention this past weekend, but supporters of rival Ron Paul made sure their candidate of choice was made known loud and clear.
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News Link • Obama Administration
White House refuses to reveal ties with Monsanto
02-29-2012
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RT
Despite requests made under the Freedom of Information Act for correspondence out of the White House, the Obama administration is refusing to comply with calls to disclose discussions with Monsanto-linked lobbyists.
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News Link • Healthcare
Obama to Force Military Into ObamaCare Exchanges and Slash Healthcare Benefits
02-29-2012
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Wynton Hall
The Obama Administration plans to force active duty service members and veterans off the military’s current health care plan, Tricare, and into ObamaCare’s state-run healthcare exchanges by increasing Tricare premiums between 30 percent to 78 percent
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News Link • Whistleblowers
WikiLeaks' Stratfor dump lifts lid on intelligence-industrial complex
02-28-2012
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Pratap Chatterjee, The Guardian
What price bad intelligence? Some 5m internal emails from Stratfor, an Austin, Texas-based company that brands itself as a "global intelligence" provider, were recently obtained by Anonymous, the hacker collective, and are being released in batches b
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Teenagers Are More Vulnerable to Sport Concussions
02-29-2012
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arclein
During adolescence, these functions are developing rapidly which makes them more fragile to stress and trauma,” explained Dr. Ellemberg, who is a professor at the university’s Department of Kinesiology.
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News Link • Energy
Oil End Game With Chris Cook
02-29-2012
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arclein
History never repeats itself, but it does rhyme. This time around it is not demand from the United States that is collapsing, but European Union and United Kingdom demand, as oil prices in euros and pounds sterling have never been higher. In the mean
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News Link • Archaeology
DNA Clues On Neanderthal Disappearance
02-29-2012
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arclein
The scientists found that west European fossils with ages older than 48,000 years, along with Neanderthal specimens from Asia, showed considerable genetic variation.
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Romney and Jihad
02-29-2012
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arclein
The U.S. is confronting an ideologically-driven force with a global strategy. The latter area is where I see Governor Romney’s strategic edge. Knowledge of where the threat is coming from is crucial. Understanding its ideological roots is a must. But
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News Link • Anonymous
25 Alleged Anons Arrested in International Crackdown
02-28-2012
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Quinn Norton via WIRED.com
Police in four nations arrested 25 alleged participants in the Anonymous collective Tuesday for attacks against websites in Columbia and Chile dating from the middle of 2011.
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News Link • Marriage
Gingrich says possibility of a public vote over gay marriage in Washington is the ‘right way’
02-28-2012
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The Washington Post
Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich declined Friday to outright reject a new law legalizing same-sex marriage in Washington state, saying if it is approved by voters it will at least be enacted “the right way.”
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News Link • Gun Rights
Bill Maher: Guns are a religion in America
02-28-2012
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Eric W. Dolan via The RawStory.com
During an appearance on CNN’s Piers Morgan Tonight, comedian Bill Maher discussed Americans love of firearms in wake of the recent school shooting in Ohio.
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News Link • Climate Change
More Americans believe in climate change: poll
02-28-2012
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The RawStory.com
Nearly two-thirds of Americans believe that climate change is real " the highest level in two years " as the public trusted its own observations of rising temperatures, a poll said Tuesday.
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