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Date Sent: 2012-04-17
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Tuesday, April 17, 2012 PM edition |
Blowback Fears Grow over US Drone Program in Yemen -- Farmer forced to shoot his own baby piglets
Argentina Proposes to Nationalize Biggest Oil Company -- Sociopathy Is Running the US - Part Two -- 04-17-12 -- Ron Helwig-Jordan Page-Tarrin Lupo, Ruby Hilliard - (MP3 & Video Loaded) -- IMF Warns Against Prolonged Euro-Zone Deflation -- Why Ron Paul is still in the presidential race -- Pentagon defends giving millions to contractor despite the contractor's unpaid taxes -- Ron Paul’s position on Jerusalem -- Beckel F-Bombs on Hannity: 'You
Don't Know What the F*ck You're Talking About' -- SONG HEARD ROUND THE
WORLD (RON PAUL SONG BOMB)-Jordan Page-4/19/12-DOWNLOAD SONG! -- Leah Bolger's Statement to the Judge of her Hearing for Disruption
of Super Committee Charge -- The end is nigh! No, really. It
is! -- CUBA STARTS TO COME ALIVE -- U.S. Has A Natural Gas Problem:
Too Much Of It -- Did Obama's Policies Help, Or Hinder, The Economy?
-- 'Let Cuba In!' Sixth Summit of
Americas sends ultimatum to US -- Powerful 6.7 earthquake
shakes central Chile -- No gays
allowed: Saudi Arabia bans homosexuals from schools --
Iranians skeptical about Israeli attack threat -- MORE UNAUTHORIZED
INTERVENTIONS: CHASING KONY in the CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC! --
China and US lock and load ahead of showdown in the Pacific -- The Bush National Guard Story Lives! --
Are Campaign Ads Coming to PBS? -- Torturous
US Milestone: 40 Years in Solitary -- Romney Tax Tips: 10
Ways to Stiff the IRS -- American Muslim Alleges FBI Had a Hand in
His Torture -- US-supported
Terrorist Group MEK Plants Stuxnet Virus Malware to Disable Iran's
Nuclear Facilities -- Taliban Free Hundreds in Raid on
Pakistani Prison -- Texas Toxic Dump Site May Benefit from Owner's
Political Largesse -- NYPD Raid
Occupy's Sleep-In Protest -- Rubes’ Gold in Sacks -- The
Bungled Hunt for 9/11’s Mastermind: KSM -- TSA Brags About
Confiscating Can Of Chicken Soup -- Professor Obama Gets an F - by Ron Paul -- Video: Woman Sobs
During TSA Grope Down -- This
Professor Used Physics To Prove He Didn't Run A Stop Sign
AZ: Charles Goyette Book Signing, Tonight, 4/17, 6:30 PM Barnes
& Noble, Scottsdale/Shea (Scottsdale, AZ); Becoming an Arizona
GOP Delegate for Ron Paul
MARV Raffle: The Evolution Continues
Freedom's Phoenix Digital Magazine READY FOR DOWNLOAD!
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News Link • Military
Blowback Fears Grow over US Drone Program in Yemen
04-17-2012
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http://www.commondreams.org, Common Dreams staff
'Every US attack conducted in Yemen only grows al Qaeda's power'
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News Link • Constitution
Farmer forced to shoot his own baby piglets in cold blood
04-17-2012
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http://www.naturalnews.com, by Mike Adams
Michigan Department of Natural Resources has, in total violation of the Fourth Amendment, conducted two armed raids on pig farmers in that state
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Events: Arizona
Charles Goyette Book Signing, Tues, 4/17, 6:30 PM Barnes & Noble, Scottsdale/Shea (Scottsdale, AZ)
04-16-2012
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Barnes & Noble
Former Phoenix radio talk show host Charles Goyette discusses his latest book, Red and Blue and Broke All Over. He explains how the growth of federal power and costly warfare and welfare spending are strangling our prosperity and bankrupting America.
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News Link • Government
Argentina Proposes to Nationalize Biggest Oil Company
04-17-2012
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http://www.commondreams.org, Common Dreams staff
President sees 'the recovery of sovereignty' in take-back of natural resources from corporations
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News Link • Free Trade
The Holistic Homestead
04-17-12
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www.agoristmarketplace.com
Is a wonderful little store, you can find all sorts of soaps, lip balms, oils, and more!
Looking for Duck Astronaut Soap?!?! Well you can find it here!
Do you love the smell of Coffee?
Well if you do, you will find Coffee Soap at The Holisti
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News Link • Energy
Solar Tower, a solution to climate change and energy consumption
04-17-2012
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www.youtube.com
A single 200MW Solar Tower power station will provide enough electricity to power around 400,000 households. The energy output will represent an annual saving of more than 1,960,000 tonnes of greenhouse CO2 gases from entering the environment
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News Link • European Union
UPDATE 1-Euro zone inflation obstinately shows no signs of easing
04-17-2012
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http://www.reuters.com, By Robin Emmott
The EU's statistics agency revised upwards its March inflation reading for the euro zone on Tuesday, adding to the case for the European Central Bank to hold back from further monetary stimulus.
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News Link • Afghanistan
Officials: Attacks show Haqqani's growth
04-17-2012
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http://www.upi.com
Military and intelligence officials said the sophistication of the coordinated attacks in Kabul, Afghanistan, show a troubling growth of the Haqqani network.
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News Link • Contractors, Government & Military
U.S. Air Force Restarts $1 Billion Afghanistan Aircraft Competition
04-13-2012
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Tony Capaccio and Danielle Ivory, Bloomberg
The U.S. Air Force will restart its stalled $1 billion competition to buy light attack aircraft for the Afghanistan military, it said today.
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News Link • European Union
Renewed euro zone worries prompt investor caution -BofA poll
04-17-2012
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http://www.reuters.com, By Richard Hubbard
Investors have turned away from riskier assets, favouring U.S. stocks, as concerns about the euro zone debt crisis resurface and expectations for global growth are scaled back, a closely-watched fund managers' survey showed on Tuesday.
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News Link • European Union
IMF Warns Against Prolonged Euro-Zone Deflation
04-17-2012
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http://online.wsj.com, By GEOFFREY T. SMITH
The euro zone is risking a "prolonged period of deflation" if it doesn't do more to address the vicious circles that its debt crisis is creating, the International Monetary Fund said Tuesday.
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Why Ron Paul is still in the presidential race
04-17-2012
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http://www.csmonitor.com, By Peter Grier
Recent delegate counts show that Ron Paul is picking up a part of the anti-Romney protest vote, and he remains popular among young voters, but it's unclear if that will amount to anything.
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News Link • Media: Print
Where Are the Women Writers? ASME Chief Responds.
04-17-2012
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motherjones.com, By Clara Jeffery and Monika Bauer
MoJo's editors and the American Society of Magazine Editors' Sid Holt discuss the byline gap.
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Space Shuttle Discovery Makes Final Takeoff
04-17-2012
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com, By SETH BORENSTEIN
The space shuttle Discovery soared over the Washington Monument, the White House and the Capitol in a high-flying salute to the nation's capital Tuesday.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
Pentagon defends giving millions to contractor despite the contractor's unpaid taxes
04-16-2012
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Tom Vanden Brook and Ray Locker, USA Today
The tax problems of the military's top propaganda contractor in Afghanistan would not have prevented the Pentagon from awarding it multimillion-dollar contracts, a top official said in a letter to U.S. senators
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Ron Paul’s position on Jerusalem
04-17-2012
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http://thehill.com, By Bernie Quigley
It is easy to (falsely) accuse Ron Paul of anti-Semitism because of his daily rants on the floor of Congress about the war on Iraq being fostered by Jewish lobbyists in America.
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News Link • Economy - International
Imagining Cuba after Chávez
04-17-2012
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http://www.csmonitor.com, By Girish Gupta
Venezuela provides Cuba with up to $15 billion a year, which helps offset the US embargo. But there is the real possibility Chávez may not win or survive another six-year term as president.
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News Link • Death
Breivik says he killed to protect indigenous Norwegians
04-17-2012
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http://www.csmonitor.com, By Valeria Criscione
In testimony today, Anders Behring Breivik, the Norwegian behind the 2011 attacks, compared himself to World War II commanders who decided to bomb Japan to prevent further loss of life.
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
‘If Barack Obama becomes the president in November again, I will be dead or in jail’
04-17-2012
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http://www.nydailynews.com, By Aliyah Shahid
The rocker and gun enthusiast officially endorsed Romney last month on Twitter after 'a long heart-and-soul conversation'
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
Beckel F-Bombs on Hannity: 'You Don't Know What the F*ck You're Talking About'
04-17-2012
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http://crooksandliars.com, By Susie Madrak
On Hannity Monday night Bob Beckel got really ticked off after Neal Boortz said that Head Start was a failure, and dropped the F bomb - without realizing they were still on the air.
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News Link • Drug War
High court to hear arguments on crack law
04-17-2012
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http://www.upi.com,
The U.S. Supreme Court was to hear arguments Tuesday on whether a law reducing sentences for crack cocaine covers those awaiting sentencing when it was passed.
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News Link • Palestine -- Israel
Palestinian prisoners begin hunger strike
04-17-2012
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http://www.upi.com
Some 1,200 Palestinian security prisoners in Israel Tuesday began an open-ended hunger strike, demanding additional privileges, officials said.
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News Link • Tea Party
New Gingrich's Tax Day Rally
04/14/2012
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http://adamvstheman.com/
6-minute minimally-edited video shows what happens at a typical Newt Gingrich event. Adam remarks on Gingrich's effort to hijack the Tea Party brand.
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Dennis Treybil
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News Link • Entertainment: Music
SONG HEARD ROUND THE WORLD (RON PAUL SONG BOMB)-Jordan Page-4/19/12-DOWNLOAD SONG!
04-17-2012
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CDBaby.Com
Revelushun Records invites you to take part in an effort to help Jordan Page's anthem "Light of Revolution (Ron Paul 2012) go viral on the 237th anniversary of the Shot Heard Round the World that started the Revolutionary War. DOWNLOAD SONG!
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News Link • Activism
Leah Bolger's Statement to the Judge of her Hearing for Disruption of Super Committee Charge
04-13-2012
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Leah Bolger
It doesn't matter to the government that wars are immoral, illegal or ineffective. Government policies are shaped by the will of the corporate interests who have direct, immediate and in some cases, almost exclusive access to them.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Today on LewRockwell.com - Tuesday April 17th 2012
04-17-2012
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LewRockwell.com
Bibi's Dilemma â€" and Barack's, Pat Buchanan on anti-Iranian warmongering - The Fascist in the White Coat, G. Keith Smith, MD, on the "health" care system
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Foreign Policy
CUBA STARTS TO COME ALIVE
04-17-2012
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ericmargolis.com
In the end, the Soviets prevailed in the Cuban missile crisis. President John Kennedy backed down, pledging the US would never invade Cuba. US missiles in Italy and Turkey targeted on the USSR were removed. Moscow took its SS-4’s out of Cuba.
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News Link • Energy
U.S. Has A Natural Gas Problem: Too Much Of It
04-17-2012
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http://www.npr.org, by John Ydstie
There's a boom in natural gas production in the United States, a boom so big the market is having trouble absorbing it all.
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News Link • Obama Administration
Did Obama's Policies Help, Or Hinder, The Economy?
04-17-2012
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http://www.npr.org, by Jim Zarroli
The 2012 presidential election is approaching, and President Obama's fate may hinge on how well the economy fares over the coming months.
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News Link • Foreign Policy
'Let Cuba In!' Sixth Summit of Americas sends ultimatum to US
04-17-2012
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http://rt.com
When the heads of both Americas met for their Sixth Summit in Colombia, a key issue was finally put squarely on the table: either Cuba is invited to the next Summit or… there will be no next Summit.
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News Link • Natural Disasters
Powerful 6.7 earthquake shakes central Chile
04-17-2012
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http://rt.com/news/chile-santiago-strong-earthquak
A strong earthquake measuring 6.7 on the Richter scale has hit close to the Chilean capital Santiago, prompting the authorities to evacuate a large stretch of coastline.
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News Link • Sexuality: Sex and the Law
No gays allowed: Saudi Arabia bans homosexuals from schools
04-17-2012
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http://rt.com
Gays and "tomboys" can no long enter public schools and universities in Saudi Arabia, until they change their appearance and behavior.
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News Link • Iran
Iranians skeptical about Israeli attack threat
04-17-2012
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http://rt.com
Israel’s possible military operation against Iran is a hot topic in today’s global politics.
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News Link • Africa: On the Map
MORE UNAUTHORIZED INTERVENTIONS: CHASING KONY in the CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC!
041712
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www.varight.com
Some 100 US troops are assisting in the capture of war criminal Joseph Kony in the Central African Republic. Congress did not authorize it; it is an other creeping intervention in others' business. As a wise man once said, "We just plain don't m
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News Link • China
China and US lock and load ahead of showdown in the Pacific
04-17-2012
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http://rt.com
As another round of all-too-realistic war games has kicked off in Taiwan and the Philippines, the Pacific looks to become the next flashpoint of conflict.
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News Link • Torture
Leaked CIA memo exposes US terror suspect torture as 'war crimes'
04-17-2012
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http://rt.com
The US is refraining from defining waterboarding and other questionable interrogation methods it used to apply to terrorist suspects as torture, possibly with a view to using them once again someday.
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
BP's Corexit-Oil Tar Sponged Up By Human Skin
04-17-2012
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http://motherjones.com, By Julia Whitty
The Surfrider Foundation has released its preliminary "State of the Beach" study for the Gulf of Mexico from BP's ongoing Deepwater Horizon disaster.
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News Link • Bush Administration
The Bush National Guard Story Lives!
04-17-2012
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http://motherjones.com, By Kevin Drum
Joe Hagan has a long story in the current issue of the Texas Monthly about George Bush's adventures in the Texas Air National Guard, and as a longtime Bush National Guard junkie I was eager to read it.
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News Link • Media: Television
Are Campaign Ads Coming to PBS?
04-17-2012
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http://motherjones.com, By Gavin Aronsen
Last Thursday, the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco struck down a seven-decade-old ban on political ads on noncommercial TV and radio stations.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Torturous Milestone: 40 Years in Solitary
04-17-2012
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motherjones.com, By James Ridgeway and Jean Casell
Constitutional claim may be the last chance for aging "Angola 3" inmates.
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Romney Tax Tips: 10 Ways to Stiff the IRS
04-17-2012
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http://motherjones.com, By Josh Harkinson
Shielding your millions from Uncle Samâ€"how American is that?
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News Link • Torture
American Muslim Alleges FBI Had a Hand in His Torture
04-17-2012
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http://motherjones.com, By Nick Baumann
EXCLUSIVE: Yonas Fikre believes the US government played a role in his hellish three-month detention in the United Arab Emirates.
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News Link • Iran
US-supported Terrorist Group MEK Plants Stuxnet Virus Malware to Disable Iran's Nuclear Faciliti
04-17-2012
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http://www.globalresearch.ca, by Nile Bowie
The international community has eased its condemnation of Iran following recent negotiations between Tehran and six other nations in Istanbul, Turkey.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Taliban Free Hundreds in Raid on Pakistani Prison
04-17-2012
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http://www.commondreams.org, Common Dreams staff
Hundreds of prisoners in Pakistani prison were released yesterday after a daring assault by Taliban fighters.
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News Link • Corruption
Texas Toxic Dump Site May Benefit from Owner's Political Largesse
04-17-2012
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http://www.commondreams.org, Common Dreams staff
Nation's radioactive waste may soon be traveling at rapid pace to Texas disposal site
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News Link • Activism
NYPD Raid Occupy's Sleep-In Protest
04-17-2012
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http://www.commondreams.org, Common Dreams staff
Arrests in defiance of 2000 court ruling allowing such protests
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Rubes’ Gold in Sacks
04-17-2012
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http://www.inthesetimes.org, BY Chris Lehmann
The very public resignation of a Goldman Sachs executive exposes what most already new: The firm is morally bankrupt.
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News Link • TERRORISM
The Bungled Hunt for 9/11’s Mastermind: KSM
04-17-2012
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http://www.inthesetimes.org, BY Steve Weinberg
It took Washington 10 years to capture Kahlid Sheikh Mohammed, who will soon be charged with murdering 2,976 people. A new book reveals his shadowy story.
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News Link • Homeland Security
TSA Brags About Confiscating Can Of Chicken Soup
04-17-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Steve Watson
Angry Americans demand to know why billions is being spent on ineffective agency
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News Link • Homeland Security
Video: Woman Sobs During TSA Grope Down
04-17-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Paul Joseph Watson
Pat down most likely triggered rape-related PTSD
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News Link • Obama Administration
Professor Obama Gets an F
04-17-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Ron Paul
Last week President Obama made some rather shocking comments at a press conference regarding the Supreme Court’s deliberation on the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare.
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News Link • Corruption
25 Signs That America Is A Seething Cesspool Of Filth And Corruption
04-17-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, The American Dream
Do you believe that America is a seething cesspool of filth and corruption? If not, you might change your mind after reading this article.
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News Link • Internet
This Is Why Google Is Absolutely Terrified Of Facebook
04-17-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Dan Frommer
Google is still the biggest, baddest online advertising company on the planet. Its $2.9 billion profit last quarter, announced yesterday, was almost as much as Facebook's revenue for all of 2011.
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News Link • Climate Change
Ground Truth on Arctic Ice
04-17-2012
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arclein
Coordinated campaign activities in these extremely cold and remote locations are difficult and include numerous challenges. The most obvious is the extreme weather. While much of Europe and North America is now enjoying the spring weather, temperatur
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News Link • Science
NASA's Alien Contact Scenario
04-17-2012
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arclein
Other kinds of close encounter may be less rewarding and leave much of human society feeling indifferent towards alien life. The extraterrestrials may be too different from us to communicate with usefully. They might invite humanity to join the "Gal
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News Link • Science
Nine Planet System Identified
04-17-2012
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arclein
"There certainly is, according to my results, strong evidence that this is the most populous planetary system detectedâ€"possibly even richer than the solar system," said study leader Mikko Tuomi, an astronomer at the University of Hertfordshire in t
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News Link • Science
Salish Sea Awakens
04-17-2012
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arclein
Steller sea lions have thrived since the federal government afforded them protection in 1970 - with new abundance estimates pegging their population at 48,000 animals in winter on the B.C. coast.
The breeding population had dipped to an estimated
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News Link • Activism
MARV Raffle: The Evolution Continues
04-15-2012
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www.peteeyre.com
MARV â€" the Mobile Authority Resistance Vehicle and an integral part of my life and the workhorse for Motorhome Diaries, Liberty On Tour and more-recently Cop Block â€" is up for raffle -- Pete Eyre
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