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Date Sent: 2012-03-14
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Wednesday, March 14, 2012 PM edition |
Goldman Executive Resigns Via Public Letter -- Justice backs new category of secret gov't files
03-14-12 Kurt Wallace-Daily Paul Radio interviews Ernest Hancock,
12:30 p.m. EST-INTERVIEW POSTPONED -- Lawsuit could make DOMA apply to
private companies -- US, EU, Japan challenge China over minerals trade
-- Taliban-linked Afghan convicted on drug charges -- U.N. official critical of Manning detention -- Latest strikes in U.S. drone campaign in Pakistan kill 15 suspected militants -- Afghans seek new pact to try U.S. soldier in killings -- Drones, baby, drones -- Iraq: 29 Kurds Found in Mass Grave; 17 Killed in Fresh Attacks --
Smoother transition when dollar collapses: That's the big goal of this
little card -- Syrian troops press offensive in Idlib after rebels
retreat -- Voters elect Ed Foster as Quartzsite's mayor again! - by Jennifer "Jade" Jones -- The Ghost and the Machine: Drone Warfare and Accountability -- First Look at the Secret Iranian Site the U.N. Wants to Inspect -- Russia: we're happy to sell arms to Assad -- 03-14-12 -- Jack Cole - Kathy Kelly -- LISTEN LIVE on LRN.FM, M-F, 9-Noon (EST) -- GOP Feels Their Cheating is Justified -- Alabama Election Fraud -Video Proof!? Wow! -- Ron Paul’s Devious Plan to Steal the Presidency -- Fed To Take Propaganda To The Schoolroom -- Ron Paul Returning to The Tonight Show w/ Jay Leno - Tue March 20, 2012 -- Voter Fraud-Friendly Policies in Vermont -- New York City: Prototype of the American Police State? -- Major US Airport To Evict TSA Screeners -- Looking for a Fight -- Afghan official: Video shows soldier surrendering -- Rising Sea Levels Seen as Threat to Coastal U.S. -- Ecuador Beats Privilege Claims, Winning Access to Chevron Docs -- Brazil to bring first charges over dictatorship violence -- Ron Paul’s Hour of Decision -- Friends no more? Egypt’s MPs declare Israel No. 1 enemy -- Crowd control: Chemical gas & water cannons on London police
wish list -- Obama and Cameron: the good, the bad or the ugly? -- Legal or not, New Yorkers happy with police surveillance of Muslims -- Iranian ultimatum: Yield now or be attacked by year’s end -- Targeted Killings: US and Israeli Specialties - by Stephen Lendman -- Israeli Iron Dome Shown Effective -- The Plutonium Files - Radiation Experiments on US Citizens (Video)
AZ: Richard Gage, AIA, and Founder
of Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth, in Phoenix March
16-18; Donna Hancock - 50th Birthday Party - Saturday, March 24th,
2012 - 2 p.m. til ???
CA: Freedom Law School's 2012
Freedom Rally - Fri-Mon., March 16-19 - Crowne Plaza Hotel -
Irvine, CA
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News Link • Obama Administration
Justice backs new category of secret gov't files
03-14-2012
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http://www.google.com, By RICHARD LARDNER, AP
In the middle of Sunshine Week, when news organizations and advocacy groups promote government transparency, the Obama administration urged Congress on Tuesday to keep secret a whole new category of information even under the Freedom of Information A
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News Link • Conferences
Freedom Law School's 2012 Freedom Rally - March 16-19 - Crowne Plaza Hotel - Irvine, CA
03-01-2012
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www.freedomlawconference.org
This 4-day event includes an in depth class on Avoiding and Defeating IRS Criminal Charges, two keynote banquet speakers, 14 of the most exciting Freedom speakers in the country, and a seminar on Stopping Mortgage Fraud.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • World News
Latest strikes in U.S. drone campaign in Pakistan kill 15 suspected militants
03-14-2012
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Reuters, news.nationalpost.com By Saud Mehsud
U.S. drone aircraft struck twice in Pakistan’s unruly tribal regions along the border with Afghanistan on Tuesday, killing 15 suspected militants, including two senior commanders of the Pakistan Taliban, security and intelligence officials said.
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News Link • Afghanistan
Afghans seek new pact to try U.S. soldier in killings
03-14-2012
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By Tom A. Peter,usatoday.com
Some Afghans are demanding its government forge a new pact that allows U.S. soldiers accused of crimes to be tried by Afghan courts as the U.S. military on Tuesday said it found probable cause against a soldier accused of murdering 16 civilians.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Iraq
Iraq: 29 Kurds Found in Mass Grave; 17 Killed in Fresh Attacks
03-14-2012
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by Margaret Griffis,original.antiwar.com
The Ministry of Human Rights announced the discovery of several mass graves containing Kurdish victims of the Anfal genocide campaign in the 1980s. So far 29 bodies have been unearthed, but several graves have yet to be opened.
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News Link • Activism
Smoother transition when dollar collapses: That's the big goal of this little card
03-14-2012
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YouTube.com
You tube video of dime cards and how important this is for our future...
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • World News
Syrian troops press offensive in Idlib after rebels retreat
03-14-2012
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chicagotribune.com By Patrick J. McDonnell, Los An
The assault in Idlib, on the heels of the Homs advance, suggests the Syrian government is making headway against the poorly armed rebels.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
The Ghost and the Machine: Drone Warfare and Accountability
03-14-2012
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www.commondreams.org
“Who has given the license to kill and in what court? Who has declared that they can hit anyone they like?”
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • United Nations
First Look at the Secret Iranian Site the U.N. Wants to Inspect
03-14-2012
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http://www.theatlanticwire.com, John Hudson
It's the most talked-about military site in the world.
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News Link • World News
Russia: we're happy to sell arms to Assad
03-14-2012
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http://www.independent.co.uk, Charlotte McDonald-G
Russia insisted yesterday that it would not halt arms shipments to Syria even as evidence mounts that the regime is committing crimes against humanity
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News Link • Political Parties
GOP Feels Their Cheating is Justified
03-14-2012
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http://www.dailypaul.com,
In the 2008 election cycle, I noticed the Texas Republicans in my district convention (Travis County, N. Austin) pushed their loyalist insiders very hard to turn out and battle Ron Paul supporters for delegate slots.
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News Link • Voting: Vote Fraud
Alabama Election Fraud -Video Proof!? Wow!
03-14-2012
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by Independentforl
Saw this on Ben Swann's facebook page!! I understand this is not 100% hard proof, but it is the video evidence we need more of, both at the primaries and the caucases.
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Fed To Take Propaganda To The Schoolroom
03-14-2012
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
Back in September we noted a peculiar RFP by the Fed which sought to become a secret 'big brother' to the social media world, and to "monitor billions of conversations and generate text analytics based on predefined criteria."
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Ron Paul Returning to The Tonight Show w/ Jay Leno - Tue March 20, 2012
03-14-2012
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by emalvini
Presidential candidate Ron Paul will be on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno Tuesday, March 20th at 11:30 p.m. Eastern.
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News Link • Voting: Vote Fraud
Voter Fraud-Friendly Policies in Vermont
03-14-2012
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http://www.breitbart.com, by Christian Hartsock
James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas has released a new video exposing just how easy it is to commit voter fraud in Vermont.
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News Link • Police State
New York City: Prototype of the American Police State?
03-14-2012
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http://lewrockwell.com, by John W. Whitehead
“There are no safeguards to ensure that the NYPD doesn’t break the law. So far as I know, there are no mechanisms in place to ensure that the NYPD does not become a rogue organization.”
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Major US Airport To Evict TSA Screeners
03-14-2012
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Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com
One of America’s busiest airports, Orlando Sanford International, has announced it will opt out of using TSA workers to screen passengers, a move which threatens the highly unpopular federal agency’s role in other airports across the nation.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Looking for a Fight
03-14-2012
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http://www.nytimes.com, By CANDICE MILLARD
What is striking about “Honor in the Dust,” Gregg Jones’s fascinating new book about the Philippine-American War, is not how much war has changed in more than a century, but how little.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Afghanistan
Afghan official: Video shows soldier surrendering
03-14-2012
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By MIRWAIS KHAN and HEIDI VOGT apnews.myway
The U.S. soldier who allegedly shot 16 Afghan villagers was caught on surveillance video that showed him walking up to his base, laying down his weapon and raising his arms in surrender, according to an Afghan official who viewed the footage.
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News Link • Books
Closing the Book: Encyclopedia Britannica Goes All Digital
03-14-2012
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Katy Steinmetz newsfeed.time.com
O, brave new world that has so few paper products in it!
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News Link • Environment
Rising Sea Levels Seen as Threat to Coastal U.S.
03-14-2012
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By JUSTIN GILLIS nytimes.com
About 3.7 million Americans live within a few feet of high tide and risk being hit by more frequent coastal flooding in coming decades because of the sea level rise caused by global warming, according to new research.
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News Link • World News
Ecuador Beats Privilege Claims, Winning Access to Chevron Docs
03-14-2012
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By PHILIP A. JANQUART courthousenews.com
A San Francisco federal judge has given Chevron a little less than a month to produce documents from the experts it tapped to undermine oil-contamination claims in Ecuador.
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News Link • World News
Brazil to bring first charges over dictatorship violence
03-14-2012
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reuters.com
Brazilian prosecutors said on Tuesday they would file charges against a retired colonel over the disappearance of five guerrillas during the 1964-1985 military dictatorship, the first such case to be brought against any military officer from that era
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News Link • World News
Friends no more? Egypt’s MPs declare Israel No. 1 enemy
03-14-2012
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http://rt.com
Egypt calls Israel its number one enemy, saying it will “revise all its relations and agreements” with Tel Aviv.
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News Link • World News
Crowd control: Chemical gas & water cannons on London police wish list
03-14-2012
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http://rt.com
London Police may soon get access to water cannons, CS gas and even more Tasers as a means to tackle pesky troublemakers.
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama and Cameron: the good, the bad or the ugly?
03-14-2012
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http://rt.com
In a joint article published in the Washington Post, the two leaders called the US-British relationship "a partnership of the heart, bound by the history, traditions and values we share." But what has that partnership really achieved?
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News Link • Racism
Legal or not, New Yorkers happy with police surveillance of Muslim
03-14-2012
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http://rt.com
A new poll shows that New Yorkers support an NYPD anti-terror campaign, despite growing concerns over the legality of the surveillance methods involved.
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News Link • Iran
Iranian ultimatum: Yield now or be attacked by year’s end
03-14-2012
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http://rt.com
The US wants Russia to deliver a message to Iran: Tehran has one last chance for talks. If it is wasted, an attack will happen in a matter of months, according to Russian diplomatic sources.
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Analysis: Romney Losses Show Disgruntled GOP Base
03-14-2012
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http://www.npr.org, by The Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) " Mitt Romney's losses in Alabama and Mississippi underscore a stark reality: The core of his party does not want him.
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Federal Reserve Says Most Major U.S. Banks Would Survive Severe Recession
03-14-2012
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http://www.npr.org, by Eyder Peralta
The Federal Reserve says 15 of the country's top 19 banks have enough capital to survive a "severe recession," which it defined as "peak unemployment rate of 13 percent, a 50 percent drop in equity prices, and a 21 percent decline in housing prices."
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Why It's Time For Newt Gingrich To Say Good Night
03-14-2012
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http://www.npr.org, by Ron Elving
It is time for the much-winnowed field of Republican presidential contenders to shrink a little further.
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Live Blog: Santorum Wins Ala., Miss.; Romney Wins Hawaii, American Samoa
03-14-2012
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http://www.npr.org, by Eyder Peralta
"We did it again," declared Rick Santorum during his victory speech in Lafayette, La.
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News Link • How To
How to Find Gold
03-14-2012
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http://www.goldgold.com
Having good mining property available to you is only about half the battle.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
15 Reasons Why The U.S. Economic Crisis Is Really An Economic Consolidation
03-14-2012
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http://endoftheamericandream.com
Did the financial problems of the last several years "happen on their own", or are they part of a broader plan to consolidate financial power in the United States?
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News Link • r3VOLution Continues
WHY DON'T MORE SOUTHERNERS VOTE FOR RON PAUL?
031412
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www.varight.com
Why don't more SOUTHERNERS vote for RON PAUL? They should favor the avatar of liberty BUT they do not...Why?
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News Link • Philosophy: Socialism
The Politically Incorrect Guide to Socialism with Kevin Williamson
03-14-2012
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arclein
The poverty of India has been compared to the remarkable wealth enjoyed by the people of Hong Kong and Singapore before, most famously by Milton Friedman, but that is no reason not to emphasize it again. Following World War II, Williamson observes, I
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Gondola Transit Gaining Fans
03-14-2012
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arclein
“It’s safe, it’s smooth, it’s clean, it’s wheelchair accessible, it’s a great tourist attraction " we love it,” said Judith Berdy, president of the Roosevelt Island Historical Society. Forty years later, the iconic red tram remains one of only two tr
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News Link • Science
Meteorites Reveal Another Way to Make Life's Components
03-14-2012
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arclein
"However, the kind of amino acids we discovered in these meteorites indicates that they were produced by a different, high-temperature process as their parent asteroids gradually cooled down." Burton is lead author of a paper on this discovery appe
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News Link • Israel - Palestine
Israeli Iron Dome Shown Effective
03-14-2012
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arclein
Iron Dome has an unconventional history. It took only three years from design to deployment " a rarity among complex weapons systems. The tracking system was developed by Elta, an Israeli defense company while the computer software was created by the
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News Link • Nutrition
The Plutonium Files - Radiation Experiments on US Citizens (Video)
03-14-2012
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DemocracyNow.com
73 disabled children were fed oatmeal laced with radioactive isotopes. 829 pregnant women were served "vitamin cocktails" (so they thought) containing radioactive iron. An eighteen-year-old woman believing she was being treated for a pituitary diso
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News Link • Just For Fun!
Pictures/Videos from this past weekend's Arizona Gold Camping and Mining Trip North of Phoenix
03-13-2012
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Freedoms Phoenix
An experienced and equipped Ron Paul supporter/activist, Jamie, spent time this past weekend showing those who showed up various methods of getting gold into your pocket.
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News Link • TERRORISM
Washington’s high-powered terrorist supporters
03-13-2012
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by Glenn Greenwald (Salon)
The five-judge conservative bloc (along with Justice Stevens) held that pure political speech could be permissibly criminalized as “material support for Terrorism” consistent with the First Amendment if the “advocacy [is] performed in coordination wi
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News Link • Police State
New York State Set to Add All Convict DNA to Its Database
03-13-2012
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New York Times
New York is poised to establish one of the most expansive DNA databases in the nation, requiring people convicted of everything from fare beating to first-degree murder to provide samples of their DNA to the state.
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Fed says 15 of 19 banks pass stress tests
03-13-2012
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Washington Post
The Federal Reserve said 15 of the 19 largest U.S. banks could maintain adequate capital levels even in a recession scenario in which they continue paying dividends and buy back stock.
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News Link • General Opinion
Cheney Cancels Meeting in Canada With Spectre To Avoid Attempts To Arrest Him
03-13-2012
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jonathanturley.org
Former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney and his daughter Elizabeth have canceled speeches in Toronto, Canada out of concern that they would be set upon by people who oppose torture and want Cheney arrested.
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News Link • Police State
The Resistance Rises: Restoring the 'Castle Doctrine'
03-13-2012
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by William Norman Grigg lewrockwell.com
As the lower house of the Indiana State Legislature approved Senate Bill 1 on March 1, Representative Linda Lawson lamented that if it were passed the measure would signal that it’s "open season on law enforcement."
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News Link • Obama Administration
Supreme Court Likely to Endorse Obama’s War on Whistle-Blowers
03-13-2012
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http://www.truthdig.com, By Chris Hedges
Totalitarian systems disempower an unsuspecting population by gradually making legal what was once illegal.
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News Link • World News
Is India defying Western sanctions on Iran?
03-13-2012
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http://www.aljazeera.com
As India explores trade opportunities with Iran we ask if it is hampering efforts to stop Tehran's nuclear programme.
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News Link • Media: Internet
Reporters Without Borders: Bahrain, Belarus added to the 'Enemies of the Internet' List
03-13-2012
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http://www.commondreams.org, Common Dreams staff
Reporters without Borders, the Paris-based organization devoted to media freedom, released its annual "Enemies of the Internet" report today.
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News Link • Internet
Facebooked: UK Teen arrested for Afghan war post
03-13-2012
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http://rt.com
British teenager will appear in court on charges of racially aggravated offense after posting Facebook comments about six British soldiers killed in Afghanistan last week.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • European Union
EU encouraging Greece ‘to head towards revolution’
03-13-2012
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http://rt.com
With Greece finally implementing the biggest debt writedown in history and predictions the country’s debt is to decline more than previously expected, a solution to the crisis may seem in view, but some politicians disagree.
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News Link • Israel - Palestine
New Israeli invasion of Gaza looming?
03-13-2012
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http://rt.com
The Israeli military is ready for a major ground incursion into Gaza in response to attacks from the Palestinian territories.
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