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Date Sent: 2012-04-03
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Tuesday, April 3, 2012 PM edition |
Hundreds Arrested At Pre-Chicago NATO Protest -- Feds Raid Oakland's Oaksterdam
The Secret History of OpenStack, the Free Cloud Software That’s Changing
Everything -- Powerful Senators Demand Giant Spy Blimp -- Shady Companies With Ties to Israel Wiretap the U.S. for the NSA -- Bug hunters fan across LA to stop citrus disease -- PLO bestows journalism award on Helen Thomas -- 04-03-12 -- Mark Potok - Patrick Byrne - LISTEN LIVE on LRN.FM, M-F, 9-Noon (EST) -- BYE BYE DOLLAR IT WAS FUN ! USA dollar NO LONGER world reserve currency! -- FBI 'mosque outreach' program used to spy on Muslims -- Do You Really Think Your Vote Counts? -- THE MULTIBILLION INTERNATIONAL ARMS TRADE -- Free Syrian Army Foot-Soldiers of Western Military Alliance -- Treacherous Treaties: American Imperialism, World Government and the Bilderbergers -- Goldman Sachs On Sex Trafficking: Uncomfortable With the Direction, At Least When Asked About It -- The Bradford Spring: Atoning for Invasion -- From Vonnegut To
Tucson, Books Are Sacred to Free People For Good Reasons -- The Ron Paul
Moment -- Texas Straight Talk 4/2/2012: The Supreme Court and Obamacare
-- FBI, NYPD Investigate New Terror Threat Graphic Mentioning NYC -- Seven dead, three wounded in Oakland university shooting -- Real Or Fake? Pentagon Proposal to Lobotomize ‘Terrorists’ Using Virus --
Someone You Love: Coming to a Gulag Near You -- Follow the Money: BPA
Makers to Gross $8 Billion Thanks to FDA Rejecting Ban -- Friends of Syria Declare War on Assad - by Stephen Lendman
AZ: Daily Paul Dime Card Production Party - tomorrow, @ the Hancock's, 2PM
until ....
CA: Ron Paul will speak at Chico State today, April 3rd, UCLA April 4th, Berkeley April 5
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News Link • Activism
Hundreds Arrested At Pre-Chicago NATO Protest
04-03-2012
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http://www.commondreams.org, Common Dreams staff
'A military alliance that intervenes all over the world and has nuclear weapons is a threat to world peace'
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Drug War
Feds Raid Oakland's Oaksterdam
04-03-2012
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nbcbayarea.com, Lori Preuitt and Christie Smith
Monday's raid was the latest move by the federal government to crack down on California's thriving medical marijuana industry.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Technology: Software
The Secret History of OpenStack, the Free Cloud Software That’s Changing Everything
04-03-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By Cade Metz
The Rainbow Mansion sits high on a hill overlooking Silicon Valley. With a roof of Spanish tile and a chandelier in the foyer, this 5,000-square-foot West Coast mini-palace was once home to a man who made his millions selling chips for PC graphics ca
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Military
Powerful Senators Demand Giant Spy Blimp
04-03-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By Noah Shachtman
It’s a story so convoluted, only Washington could serve it up. Eighteen months ago, the Pentagon’s chief ordered the Air Force to start building a king-sized blimp that could spy on whole Afghan villages at once.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Israel
Shady Companies With Ties to Israel Wiretap the U.S. for the NSA
04-03-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By James Bamford
Army General Keith Alexander, the director of the NSA, is having a busy year â€" hopping around the country, cutting ribbons at secret bases and bringing to life the agency’s greatly expanded eavesdropping network.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Ron Paul Is Untouchable and Pure, He Would Never Sell Out to Mitt Romney
04-03-2012
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by fishyculture
Doug Wead on Al Jazeera: Ron Paul Is Untouchable and Pure, He Would Never Sell Out to Mitt Romney
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Agriculture
Bug hunters fan across LA to stop citrus disease
04-03-2012
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By REED SAXON and TRACIE CONE Associated Press
The ubiquitous backyard citrus tree, symbolic of California's agricultural abundance, is front and center in the battle now under way to save the state's nearly $2 billion citrus industry.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Media: Print
PLO bestows journalism award on Helen Thomas
04-03-2012
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http://www.jpost.com, By JTA
US reporter, forced into retirement after controversial remarks about Jews, hailed for "supporting Palestine in the West."
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Kitchen Cupboard Medicine
04-03-2012
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http://survivalblog.com, by Barefoot Yankee Gal
Open your kitchen cupboard and what do you see? Salt, pepper, ginger, dill, alum, meat tenderizer, honey, molasses, baking soda; and the list can go on.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • World News
Guilt and Identity Politics
The Toulouse Murders
04-03-2012
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http://www.counterpunch.org, by DIANA JOHNSTONE
The current French presidential election campaign was rudely interrupted at its very start by a series of murders in and around the southwestern city of Toulouse.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
$100 to Fly Through the Airport
04-03-2012
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http://online.wsj.com
Hate the full-body scans, pat-downs and slow going at TSA airport security screening checkpoints? For $100, you can now bypass the hassle.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Constitution
It’s Time to Organize & Stand Together! With 3% We Can Restore Liberty! WEBINAR Tonight, Apr. 3
04-03-2012
Imagine a well-funded, *non-political* locally controlled organization in every state dedicated solely to defending the state and federal Constitutions. Just 3% of Americans can hold ALL our governments accountable to the Law! See the Plan tonight.
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Bob Schulz
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News Link • Currencies
BYE BYE DOLLAR IT WAS FUN ! USA dollar NO LONGER world reserve currency!
04-02-2012
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http://www.youtube.com, PropheticSeer
BYE BYE DOLLAR IT WAS FUN ! USA dollar NO LONGER world reserve currency!
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Corruption
James Murdoch stands down as chairman of BSkyB
04-03-2012
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www.dailymail.co.uk
The 39-year-old has resigned just weeks after quitting as boss of his father's British newspaper empire which has been engulfed in the phone-hacking scandal.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Dutch 'flying car' makes first test flight
04-02-2012
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www.foxnews.com
According to its creators, the Personal Air and Land Vehicle (hence the name PAL-V) can reach speeds of 110 mph both on the ground and in the air and has a flying range of 350 miles per tank, which more than doubles when being driven.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
FBI 'mosque outreach' program used to spy on Muslims
04-03-2012
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MSNBC
The FBI in San Francisco used a public relations program billed as "mosque outreach" to collect information on the religious views and practices of Muslims in Northern California and then shared the intelligence with other government agencies, accord
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Voting and Elections
Do You Really Think Your Vote Counts?
04-02-2012
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Lloyd Chapman, Huffington Post
Today, it doesn't really matter who the President is or who is in Congress because big corporations run our government. They decide who gets elected and what legislation gets passed. Committees in Congress are controlled by the industries they regula
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
THE MULTIBILLION INTERNATIONAL ARMS TRADE
04-03-2012
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http://www.globalresearch.ca, by SIPRI
The volume of worldwide arms transfers in 2007â€"2011 was 24 per cent higher than in 2002â€"2006 and the five largest arms importers in 2007â€"2011 were all Asian states.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Syria
Free Syrian Army Foot-Soldiers of Western Military Alliance
04-03-2012
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http://tv.globalresearch.ca, by grtv
The international envoy to Syria tells the UN Security Council there's no progress in implementing a ceasefire
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Conspiracies
Treacherous Treaties: American Imperialism, World Government and the Bilderbergers
04-03-2012
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http://www.globalresearch.ca, by Prof. John Kozy
Is American imperialism a Bilderberger plot?
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Environment
Greenpeace Observes 'Oily Sheen' Miles from North Sea Leak Site
04-03-2012
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http://www.commondreams.org, Common Dreams staff
Not taking Total's word for it, enviromental group sends vessel to verify impacts of gas in North Sea exclusion zone
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Media: Internet
Goldman Sachs On Sex Trafficking: Uncomfortable With the Direction, At Least When Asked About It
04-03-2012
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http://www.commondreams.org, by Abby Zimet
Goldman Sachs has scrambled to sell off their 16% stake in a media company that owns Backpage.com.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • World News
The Bradford Spring: Atoning for Invasion
04-03-2012
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http://www.commondreams.org, by Abby Zimet
An upset victory in a U.K. special election has gone to George Galloway, a fierce critic of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
From Vonnegut To Tucson, Books Are Sacred to Free People For Good Reasons
04-03-2012
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http://www.commondreams.org, by Abby Zimet
Not content with banning Hispanic studies and other dangerous reading from high schools, Arizona's superintendent of schools now wants to take the fight to universities, where teachers learned "this toxic thing" to begin with.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Events: America
Ron Paul will speak at Chico State April 3rd, UCLA April 4th, Berkeley April 5
04-03-2012
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http://www.dailypaul.com, papoose34328
2012 Republican Presidential candidate Ron Paul will visit California this week for a three-day campaign tour.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Supreme Court: Strip searches in jail OK even for minor offenses
04-03-2012
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http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com, By Pete Williams
Siding with security needs over privacy rights, the Supreme Court ruled Monday that jailers may subject people arrested for minor offenses to invasive strip searches.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Obama Administration
Texas Straight Talk 4/2/2012: The Supreme Court and Obamacare
04-03-2012
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http://www.dailypaul.com
Last week the Supreme Court heard arguments concerning the constitutionality of the Obamacare law, focusing on the mandate requiring every American to buy health insurance or pay fines enforced by the IRS
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Robert Lee
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News Link • TERRORISM
FBI, NYPD Investigate New Terror Threat Graphic Mentioning NYC
04-03-2012
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www.nbcnewyork.com, By Jonathan Dienst and Shimon
The posting warns of al-Qaida's return to New York City
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Death
Seven dead, three wounded in Oakland university shooting
04-03-2012
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http://www.ktvu.com
A 43-year-old former student of a small Christian university in California opened fire at the school Monday, killing at least seven people and setting off an intense, chaotic manhunt..
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Government
Real Or Fake? Pentagon Proposal to Lobotomize ‘Terrorists’ Using Virus
04-03-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Paul Joseph Watson
Whatever true providence of video clip, brain eating vaccines are a fact
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Government
Someone You Love: Coming to a Gulag Near You
04-03-2012
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http://www.truthdig.com, By Chris Hedges
The security and surveillance state does not deal in nuance or ambiguity.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Activism
A Palestinian Mandela
04-03-2012
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http://original.antiwar.com, by Uri Avnery
Marwan Barghouti has spoken up. After a long silence, he has sent a message from prison.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Obama Administration
Coming to a Neighborhood Near You
04-03-2012
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http://original.antiwar.com, by Charles V. Peña
Armed drones have become the weapon of choice for the Obama administration to go after would-be terrorists in Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Supreme Court Rules Strip Searches OK for Minor Offenses
04-03-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Kurt Nimmo
In a 5 to 4 vote, the Supreme Court ruled on Monday that it is permissible for jailers to strip search people arrested and jailed on minor offenses, even if they have not violated the law.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Follow the Money: BPA Makers to Gross $8 Billion Thanks to FDA Rejecting Ban
04-03-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Anthony Gucciardi
Producers of toxic BPA are now boasting $8 billion in sales for 2012 thanks to the FDA rejecting a potential ban on the cancer-linked chemical on March 30th.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Vaccine to Prevent Heart Disease Possible
04-03-2012
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arclein
It would be the first time that the underlying causes of heart disease was targeted instead of reducing factors such as high levels of bad cholesterol and blood pressure which increase the likelihood of heart disease developing.
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Closing in on a Heart Attack Predictive Test
04-03-2012
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arclein
Endothelial cells create a wrapper that lines the inside of blood vessels. When the vessel is damaged, endothelial cells break away and enter the bloodstream.
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robert klein
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News Link • Food
Fresh Food Not Stored in Refrigerator
04-03-2012
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arclein
Potatoes: Potatoes like cool, not cold temperatures. They do best at around 45 degrees F, which is about 10 degrees warmer than the average refrigerator. Most of us don't have a root cellar (a cool, dark place to store root vegetables like p
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robert klein
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Diddling the Munis With Wall Street
04-03-2012
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arclein
For more than a decade, banks and insurance companies convinced local governments, hospitals, universities and other non-profits that interest rate swaps would lower interest rates on bonds sold for public projects such as roads, bridges and schools.
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robert klein
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Opinion • Voting: Vote Fraud
Holder’s March Madness
04-02-2012
Becky Fenger
I can cite at least four reasons why U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder is the most dangerous man in America, but today I want to concentrate on the Department of Justice's role in promoting vote fraud, propelled by the fear that Democrats can't win i
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