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Date Sent: 2012-04-11
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Wednesday, April 11, 2012 PM edition |
A Philippine Warship Is Currently In A Standoff With Two Chinese Ships
Justice for Rachel Corrie Delayed -- Putin signals support for NATO Afghan supply hub -- Newt Gingrich's $500 check bounces for Utah primary --
Obama: Millionaires should pay 'fair share' -- Charles Manson's parole
hearing today could be his last -- S. Sudan Troops Move into Oil-Rich
Town -- Syria says it will stop fighting by UN deadline -- Chongqing supports CPC decision to investigate Bo Xilai -- U.S. Sues Apple, Publishers Over E-Book Pricing -- There's A Healthcare Accounting Scandal At Bankrupt USA Inc. -- 900 Poor High Schoolers On UCLA's Wait List Were Accidentally Sent Acceptance Letters -- The Pentagon Is About To Buy A Bunch Of These New Drones For Troops On The Front Lines -- China Went Ahead And Sold Iran $9 Million Of Forbidden US Computer Equipment -- 49 Former NASA Scientists Send A Letter Disputing Climate Change -- Witness the Power of an Idea: Ron Paul Massive Rallies 2012 -- Ron Paul wins do-over St. Charles County caucus -- The 10 Fastest Dying Industries In America -- Beyond
Outrage: The General Election of 2012 Starts Today -- 10 Things You
Need To Know Before The Opening Bell -- Unknown but trusted: the corrupt
opportunists of Europe -- Europe Will Collapse In May-June -- Spain and EU reject talk of bailout -- Eurozone crisis: Fear returns -- Britain to bolster weapons sales to Indonesia -- US trained Iranian ‘terrorist’ group -- Obama second term ‘in hands of 30 million unemployed’ -- QE3: The Fed Entrapped in the Perpetual issuance of Money - by Bob Chapman -- IRAQ. MASSACRE OF A COUNTRY. "A War on Terror" when you are the Terrorist -- The Police State Strips Away Its Mask - by Glenn Greenwald -- Despite Protest, School Board Fires Ethnic Studies Director
TX: GOP Presidential
Candidate Ron Paul to visit Fort Worth this week
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News Link • China
A Philippine Warship Is Currently In A Standoff With Two Chinese Ships
04-11-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Robert Johnson
...the two countries are locked in a potentially violent confrontation.
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News Link • NATO
Putin signals support for NATO Afghan supply hub
04-11-2012
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http://www.reuters.com, By Gleb Bryanski
President-elect Vladimir Putin on Wednesday called NATO a relic of the Cold War but said he supported letting the alliance use a Russian airport as a supply hub in support of its mission in Afghanistan.
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Charles Manson's parole hearing today could be his last
04-11-2012
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http://content.usatoday.com, By Douglas Stanglin
Charles Manson is unlikely to appear today at what could be the last parole hearing...
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News Link • Military
S. Sudan Troops Move into Oil-Rich Town
04-11-2012
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http://www.time.com, By AP / MICHAEL ONYIEGO
Troops from South Sudan moved into an oil-rich border town claimed by Sudan...
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News Link • Syria
Syria says it will stop fighting by UN deadline
04-11-2012
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http://www.google.com, By ELIZABETH A. KENNEDY
Syria promised to stop fighting in time for Thursday's deadline for a cease-fire
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News Link • Justice and Judges
U.S. Sues Apple, Publishers Over E-Book Pricing
04-11-2012
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online.wsj.com, CHAD BRAY And BRENT KENDALL
The U.S. filed an antitrust lawsuit Wednesday against Apple Inc. AAPL +0.73% and five of the nation's largest publishers, alleging they conspired to limit competition for the pricing of e-books.
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News Link • Healthcare
There's A Healthcare Accounting Scandal At Bankrupt USA Inc.
04-11-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, James Pethokoukis
So there’s this $15 trillion mega-company, USA Inc. Great brand, great history, great products (liberty, entrepreneurial capitalism). We all know it.
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News Link • Seriously?
900 Poor High Schoolers On UCLA's Wait List Were Accidentally Sent Acceptance Letters
04-11-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Linette Lopez
If you were on UCLA's wait list and then got an acceptance letter, we don't mean to alarm you, but it might have been an accident.
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News Link • Military
The Pentagon Is About To Buy A Bunch Of These New Drones For Troops On The Front Lines
04-11-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Michael Kelley
The U.S. Military will increase its number of armed and long-haul surveillance drones to 645 in 2022 from about 445 in 2013
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News Link • China
China Went Ahead And Sold Iran $9 Million Of Forbidden US Computer Equipment
04-11-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Michael Kelley
China has sold Iran millions of dollars worth of embargoed U.S. computer equipment
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News Link • Climate Change
49 Former NASA Scientists Send A Letter Disputing Climate Change
04-11-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com,
Some prominent voices at NASA are fed up with the agency's activist stance toward climate change.
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Witness the Power of an Idea: Ron Paul Massive Rallies 2012
04-11-2012
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YouTube.com
YOU WILL NOT SEE THIS ON TELEVISION Money Bomb on April 15!
Ron Paul 2012: Restore America Now
http://www.ronpaul2012.com
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Ron Paul wins do-over St. Charles County caucus
04-11-2012
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http://www.stltoday.com, BY MARK SCHLINKMANN
Supporters of U.S. Rep. Ron Paul took control of St. Charles County’s second-try Republican caucus Tuesday night, winning all of its delegates to later stages of the state GOP’s presidential selection process.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Political Parties
Beyond Outrage: The General Election of 2012 Starts Today
04-11-2012
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com, Robert Reich
We need to do everything we can to make sure Barack Obama is reelected president.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • European Union
Unknown but trusted: the corrupt opportunists of Europe
04-11-2012
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http://www.thenewfederalist.eu, Alain de Raymond
Who do you trust the most: the European Commission or your national government?
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Robert Lee
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News Link • European Union
Europe Will Collapse In May-June
04-11-2012
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www.forexpros.com,By Phoenix Capital Research
Starting back in August, I began suggesting that we were approaching a Systemic Crisis/ Crash scenario in the markets.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • European Union
Spain and EU reject talk of bailout
04-11-2012
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edition.cnn.com,By Victor Mallet and Peter Spiegel
Spanish ministers and European Union officials took turns on Tuesday to deny that the country needed an international bailout, in an effort to soothe the bond market.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • European Union
Eurozone crisis: Fear returns
04-11-2012
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http://www.bbc.co.uk, Gavin Hewitt
Just a few weeks ago the head of the IMF, Christine Lagarde, looked at Greece and declared "economic spring is in the air".
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Activism
FEMEN rings the bell
04-11-2012
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http://rt.com
Members of FEMEN, who are famous for staging controversial naked protests, switched from political issues and slashing domestic violence to defending Ukrainian women's right to abortion.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Military
Cameron to bolster weapons sales to Indonesia
04-11-2012
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http://rt.com
British Prime Minister David Cameron will be seeking to boost weapons sales to Indonesia, which he calls “one of the world’s most important democracies”.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Military
US trained Iranian ‘terrorist’ group " report
04-11-2012
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http://rt.com
The United States' Joint Special Operations Command (JSOT) conducted training for the Mujahedin-e-Khalq (MEK), an Iranian opposition group listed by the US as a terrorist organization, journalist Seymour Hersh claims.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama second term ‘in hands of 30 mln unemployed’
04-11-2012
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http://rt.com
With around 20 per cent real unemployment, it’s US joblessness that could prove the stumbling block for Obama's second term " not foreign policy issues
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Palestine -- Israel
Palestinians thirsting for change as Quartet to meet
04-11-2012
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http://rt.com
The Palestinians say Israel is wrecking prospects for a two-state solution by "deliberately waging illegal and destructive" settlement action.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Activism
Group Mobilizing Big Anti-Fracking 'Earthquake'
04-11-2012
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http://www.commondreams.org, Common Dreams staff
"If we stay silent, special interests will win; if we speak out together we have a chance."
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
America's Prescription Drug Addiction Suggests a Sick Nation
04-11-2012
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http://www.commondreams.org, by Victoria Bekiempis
The growing taste for prescription opioids in the US is a concern. What is it about our way of life that necessitates such relief?
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Robert Lee
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Radio/TV Show • Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock - Radio
Host:
Ernest Hancock
04-11-12 -- No live show - Ernest will have re-runs today
Today's broadcast will feature the show Ernest did while at the Freedom Law Conference in Irvine, CA on 3-19-12. Drew Phillips & Will Grigg and then Anthony Gregory interviews Butler Shaffer for the 3rd hour show.
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News Link • r3VOLution Continues
NEITHER TWEEDLEDEE NOR TWEEDLEDUM: THE PIRATE PARTIES are the VOICE of LIBERTY in EUROPE!
041112
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www.varight.com
Check out the photograph in Der Spiegel in their recent article on the German Pirate Party's convention in Munster: Yes that's right: R3VOLUTION as the RON PAUL people spell it! Yes, LIBERTY is spreading! A fresh alternative to the statist part
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Sandy Sanders
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News Link • Surveillance
SPYING ON AMERICANS: Obama's Backdoor "Cybersecurity" Bills Threatens Political and Pr
04-10-2012
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Tom Burghardt, Global Research
Under the guise of "cybersecurity," the new all-purpose bogeyman to increase the secret state's already-formidable reach, the Obama administration and their congressional allies are crafting legislation that will open new backdoors for even more intr
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • North American Union
MILITARIZATION AND THE TRILATERAL NORTH AMERICAN POLICE STATE
04-11-2012
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http://www.globalresearch.ca, by Dana Gabriel
While bilateral initiatives have dominated North American issues over the last couple of years, the trilateral relationship has suffered.
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News Link • Iraq
IRAQ. MASSACRE OF A COUNTRY. "A War on Terror" when you are the Terrorist
04-11-2012
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http://www.globalresearch.ca, by Felicity Arbuthno
“How can you make a war on terror when you are actually the terrorist?” (Unknown.)
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Federal Reserve
QE3: The Fed Entrapped in the Perpetual issuance of Money
04-11-2012
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http://www.globalresearch.ca, by Bob Chapman
It was 13 months ago we disclosed that the administration passed a stimulus bill known as the $17.5 billion “Hiring Incentives Act” to restore employment.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Police State
The Police State Strips Away Its Mask
04-11-2012
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http://www.globalresearch.ca, by Glenn Greenwald
April 08, 2012 "Salon" -- One of the more extreme government abuses of the post-9/11 era targets U.S. citizens re-entering their own country, and it has received far too little attention.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Energy
Nuclear Power Is Expensive and Bad for the Environment …
04-11-2012
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http://www.globalresearch.ca, by Washingtons Blog
Nuclear power is no longer an economically viable source of new energy in the United States, the freshly-retired CEO of Exelon, America’s largest producer of nuclear power [who also served on the president’s Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclea
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Despite Protest, Tuscon School Board Fires Ethnic Studies Director
04-11-2012
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http://www.commondreams.org, Common Dreams staff
Students call out school board for racist policies, vow to fight on despite decision
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Mass Murderer Charles Manson Up For Parole
04-11-2012
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http://abcnews.go.com,
A California parole board will meet today to determine if mass murderer Charles Manson could be considered "suitable" for parole.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Evacuations & Catastrophe
Indonesia issues new tsunami alert for aftershock
04-11-2012
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By FAKHRURRADZIE GADE, Associated Press
Indonesia has issued a fresh tsunami warning after an aftershock with a preliminary magnitude of 8.2 shook its western coast.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Rick Santorum stops short of endorsing Romney
04-11-2012
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http://www.cbsnews.com, ByChip Reid
All of a sudden, the Republican race for president is practically over. Rick Santorum's surprise decision to suspend his campaign Tuesday, removed Mitt Romney's most serious competitor from the GOP primary battle.
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
NBC making movie: Julian Assange, the early years
04-11-2012
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Yahoo News
"Underground" follows the story of an Assange-led group of young hackers who broke into a number of major military and business organizations in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Assange was a teenager when the Melbourne-based group began operations.
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • Energy
Advanced Power Grid Research in Western USA
04-11-2012
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arclein
To achieve this level of decarbonization, policy changes are needed to cap or tax carbon emissions to provide an incentive to move toward low-carbon electricity sources, Kammen and the other study authors said.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Land Mine Detector By 17 Year Old Inventer
04-11-2012
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arclein
My parents are both geologists," Bechtel tells Co.Exist. "Years ago they got connected with an international group of scientists working on a project called RASCAN, developing a holographic radar device for detecting land mines. During the summer b
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Orbital Debris
04-11-2012
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arclein
Let's hypothetically assume that the removal of 10 large expired satellites per year will stabilize debris growth. Each object removal flight will likely cost about as much as placing a new satellite in orbit, say $200 million. Ten of these per year
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News Link • Agriculture
Bamboo Booms
04-11-2012
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arclein
"In the last decade, bamboo has become a major economic crop," Abadie continues.
New technologies and ways of industrially processing bamboo have made a big difference, enabling it to begin to compete effectively with wood products for Western m
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News Link • Martial Law
US Army Preparing for Martial Law Scenario in US?
04-10-2012
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http://theintelhub.com, The Intel Hub
For years the alternative media has warned about the US military possibly being used against the American people in a time of economic collapse or any sort of martial law scenario.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Whistleblowers
FBI attempts to holdback Sibel Edmonds Book!!
04-10-2012
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National Whistelblowers Center
The National Whistleblowers Center revealed that the FBI required employees to sign employment contracts that are illegal under Federal law. The NWC launched the investigation in response to a nearly year long campaign
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • World News
WikiLeaks: Makers of KONY2012 Spied For Ugandan Regime
04-10-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Michael Kelley
Invisible Children, makers of KONY 2012 and Beyond KONY, provided intelligence to Uganda's security apparatus that led to the arrests of several opponents of the regime
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News Link • World News
A Longtime American Ally Is Now Aligning Itself With Iran
04-10-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, F. Michael Maloof
Egyptians followed recent gains by the Muslim Brotherhood in parliament to pursue Tehran as strategic partner instead of Washington.
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News Link • Corruption
Police Have Mysteriously Lost The Video Of The Megaupload Raid
04-10-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Stephen C. Webster
Video footage of a police raid on the home of Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom is missing, and authorities claim they’re not quire sure what happened to it.
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News Link • European Union
European Markets Just Got DESTROYED, All Major Markets Down Over 2%
04-10-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Simone Foxman
European markets tanked today and Italian and Spanish bond yields went crazy, amid renewed panic about Europe.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Ron Paul - "Last Nail"
04-10-2012
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YouTube.com
Ron Paul Revolution - Great speech by Congressman Ron Paul about the deteriorating state of our once great American Republic.
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Ernest Hancock
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