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Date Sent: 2012-06-08
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, June 8, 2012 |
U.S. losing patience with Pakistan, says Panetta -- Rand Paul endorses Romney
America's Last Prisoner of War -- In Chinese Murder Mystery, Take 2 for Big Scene -- China rate cut raises fears of grim May economic data -- China says to provide "selfless" help to Afghanistan -- Madrid Leans on Its Troubled Banks to Buy Its Bonds -- U.S. rating faces 2013 cut if no credible plan: Fitch -- Feds plan to chop down Idaho man’s $14,000 treehouse -- Florida bond hearing set for Trayvon Martin killer -- Approval Rating for Justices Hits Just 44% in New Poll -- G7 Is Concerned About Euro Collapse ... Sure They Are! -- Oh, EU ... Grow the Money Supply! (And Enshrine the Current Distortion Forever) -- NYC Police plan to reduce arrests but write a lot more tickets -- Why you should be excited about national bankruptcy -- San Diego and San Jose Lead Way in Pension Cuts -- Court Halts Law Allowing Indefinite Detention of Americans -- Here's Why Investors Are Pulling Money Out of the Market -- Spanish Banks Need $50 Billion: IMF Report -- Fed Boosts Capital Rules for Banks, Hitting Stocks -- Kinsella and Tucker Discuss Patent Law on Peter Schiff Show -- 18 Examples Of The Nanny State Gone Wild -- America’s Largest Export: Bigger Government
WIKILEAKS NEEDS YOU !
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"Fahrenheit 451" and "The Martian Chronicles"; Bob Chapman;
International Forecaster has died
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News Link • Obama Administration
U.S. losing patience with Pakistan, says Panetta
06-07-2012
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Reuters
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said on Thursday the United States was reaching the limits of its patience with Pakistan because of the safe havens the country offered to insurgents in neighboring Afghanistan.
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Rand Paul endorses Romney
06-07-2012
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Politico
File this under signs the Ron Paul campaign is really, truly over: Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul threw his support tonight to Mitt Romney.
The endorsement came in an appearance on "Hannity," a little less than 24 hours after the elder Paul acknowledged
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News Link • WAR: About that War
America's Last Prisoner of War
06-07-2012
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Rolling Stone
"In the US army you are cut down for being honest... but if you are a conceited brown nosing shit bag you will be allowed to do what ever you want, and you will be handed your higher rank... The system is wrong. I am ashamed to be an american."
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • China
In Chinese Murder Mystery, Take 2 for Big Scene
06-07-2012
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New York Times
“At the meeting, Bo Xilai said, ‘Leave me alone for a while and let me think about this,’ ”. “Then, to show he’s righteous, Bo Xilai said he would be willing to allow his wife to be tried.”
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News Link • China
China rate cut raises fears of grim May economic data
06-07-2012
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Reuters
Global cheers over China's decision to cut interest rates could fade to stony silence if, as some economists fear, the move signals that some grim economic data are about to be released.
China's surprise rate cut unveiled on Thursday has boosted h
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News Link • Afghanistan
China says to provide "selfless" help to Afghanistan
06-07-2012
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Reuters
Chinese President Hu Jintao told his Afghan counterpart Hamid Karzai on Friday that China will provide "sincere and selfless help" to Afghanistan, promising to step up trade, aid, investment and security cooperation.
"At present Afghanistan has en
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News Link • Economy - International
Madrid Leans on Its Troubled Banks to Buy Its Bonds
06-07-2012
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New York Times
While the Spanish government was able to sell all the bonds it wanted to, it mostly sold to the usual buyers: Spain’s increasingly fragile banks. As Madrid tries to come up with the money to bail out its banks, its main lenders are increasingly beco
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
U.S. rating faces 2013 cut if no credible plan: Fitch
06-07-2012
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Reuters
Fitch Ratings reiterated on Thursday it would cut its sovereign credit rating for the United States next year if Washington cannot come to grips with its deficits and create a "credible" fiscal consolidation plan.
It also said it would immediately
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News Link • Government
Feds plan to chop down Idaho man’s $14,000 treehouse
06-07-2012
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The Sideshow
Tremain Albright has spent more than $14,000 building and renovating a treehouse along the Kootenai River in Bonners Ferry, Idaho. But the Army Corps of Engineers says the house must be torn down or the city could lose more than $128,000 in federal f
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News Link • Gun Rights
Florida bond hearing set for Trayvon Martin killer
06-07-2012
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Reuters
The neighborhood watch volunteer charged in the killing of unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin will get a new bond hearing at the end of this month after his bail was revoked last week, court officials said.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Approval Rating for Justices Hits Just 44% in New Poll
06-07-2012
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New York Times
Just 44 percent of Americans approve of the job the Supreme Court is doing and three-quarters say the justices’ decisions are sometimes influenced by their personal or political views, according to a poll conducted by The New York Times and CBS News.
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News Link • Iran
Nazi propaganda website starts operation in Iran, government censors do nothing
06-07-2012
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The Daily Caller
A pro-Nazi association now operates a Persian-language website in Iran, promoting anti-Semitism and memorializing Adolf Hitler, apparently with the approval of the Iranian government and its censors.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Video Device Reads American Sign Language and Translates It Into Audible English
06-07-2012
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http://www.popsci.com, By Rebecca Boyle
Sign language can greatly improve the communication capability of hearing-impaired people, but there’s still a major barrier in that most people don’t understand it. New prototype gadgets could change that...
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Mars Colonization Mission Will Happen Live on Reality TV
06-07-2012
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http://www.popsci.com, By Colin Lecher
One of the primary obstacles to human colonization of Mars is the funding -- creating a habitable environment and sending humans across the gulf of space is a costly process, well beyond the exploration budgets of most nations.
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News Link • Internet
Can a Credit Score be Crowdsourced?
06-07-2012
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http://www.technologyreview.com, By Jessica Leber
A startup uses social networks to gauge whether it's wise to loan to borrowers in emerging markets.
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News Link • Outdoor Survival
Yes, That’s a Tampon in My Mouth: The Swiss Army Survival Tampon " 10 Survival Uses
06-07-2012
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http://lewrockwell.com, by Brett & Kate McKay
Do me a favor for the next five minutes. Try to forget everything you know about tampons.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
McDonnell Douglas Phase B 12-Man Space Station (1970)
06-07-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By David S. F. Portree
In the autumn of 1966, NASA asked President Lyndon Baines Johnson’s Bureau of the Budget (BOB) for $100 million in Fiscal Year (FY) 1968 to begin Phase B contractor studies of Earth-orbital space stations.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Technology: Software
Red Hat: Yes, Windows 8 Machines Will Run Linux
06-07-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By Caleb Garling
Red Hat has moved to ease fears that the new secure boot mechanism included in Microsoft’s upcoming Windows 8 operating system will make it overly difficult to also install Linux on Windows 8 machines.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
War Drums for Syria?
06-07-2012
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http://www.thedailybell.com, by Ron Paul
War drums are beating again in Washington. This time Syria is in the crosshairs after a massacre there last week left more than 100 dead.
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News Link • European Union
Oh, EU ... Grow the Money Supply! (And Enshrine the Current Distortion Forever)
06-07-2012
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http://www.thedailybell.com, by Staff Report
The sky is falling, the Earth is dying, the money supply is shutting down.
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News Link • Drug War
NYC Police plan to reduce arrests but write a lot more tickets
06-07-2012
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http://www.sovereignman.com,
Mayor Bloomberg has uncharacteristically adjusted New York’s position on marijuana arrests. The move would downgrade marijuana position from an arrestable offense to a fineable one while also increasing ticket revenue and reducing the overcrowded pr
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News Link • General Opinion
Why you should be excited about national bankruptcy
06-07-2012
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http://www.sovereignman.com, Simon Black
One of the great absurdities of our modern financial system is that a nation living within its means, i.e. spending less than what it confiscates in tax revenue, is no longer the norm.
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News Link • Voting and Elections
San Diego and San Jose Lead Way in Pension Cuts
06-07-2012
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By: Michael Cooper and Mary Williams Walsh
...a pair of less noticed local elections Tuesday in California could have more immediate ramifications for struggling state and local governments and for organized labor.
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Court Halts Law Allowing Indefinite Detention of Americans
06-07-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By David Kravets
A federal judge is blocking legislation authorizing the government to indefinitely detain without trial an “individual who was part of or substantially supported” groups “engaged in hostilities against the United States or its coalition partners.”
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Military
Check Out This Giant Spy Blimp Before the Air Force Kills It
06-07-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By David Axe
The $211 million Blue Devil 2 airship, built for the Air Force by the tiny, Virginia-based company Mav6, is slated for dismantling and storage at the end of this week.
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News Link • European Union
Spanish Banks Need $50 Billion: IMF Report
06-07-2012
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http://www.cnbc.com, By: Reuters
An International Monetary Fund report on Spanish banks will show the country's troubled lenders need a cash injection of at least 40 billion euros ($50 billion), sources in the financial sector said Thursday.
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News Link • Free Speech
WIKILEAKS NEEDS YOU !
06-07-2012
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http://wikileaks.org
We are forced to put all our efforts into raising funds to ensure our economic survival.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Honor student jailed for missing school cleared of charges
06-07-2012
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http://rt.com
After a judge in Texas sentenced a 17-year-old girl to a night in jail for missing school, critics across the country responded by condemning the court’s decision.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Fed Boosts Capital Rules for Banks, Hitting Stocks
06-07-2012
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http://www.cnbc.com, Reuters
The Federal Reserve released a proposal to enact an international agreement on higher capital standards for banks, known as Basel III, that largely rejects pleas by the U.S. banking industry to soften parts of the new standards.
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News Link • European Union
Merkel says EU ready to act as Spain downgraded
06-07-2012
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By Carlos Ruano and Andreas Rinke
Chancellor Angela Merkel said Europe was ready to act to ensure stability in the euro zone as Spain's credit rating was cut by three notches on Thursday amid expectations it may soon seek EU help for banks beset by bad debts.
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News Link • Police State
18 Examples Of The Nanny State Gone Wild
06-07-2012
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http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com
America has been overrun by control freaks. Once upon a time the United States was considered to be "the land of the free and the home of the brave", but today there are millions of laws, rules and regulations that tightly regulate our daily lives.
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News Link • Media: Radio
Kinsella and Tucker Discuss Patent Law on Peter Schiff Show
06-07-2012
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http://c4sif.org, by Stephan Kinsella
I was a guest today on the Peter Schiff Show (guest host Jeff Tucker), discussing problems with patent law.
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
40 Years Later: Nothing Has Changed Except The Images
06-07-2012
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http://www.dollarvigilante.com, by Jim Karger
It was Vietnam and it's images that dispelled me of the notion of American exceptionalism. It was the first time I wanted to escape America, but not the last.
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News Link • Government
America’s Largest Export: Bigger Government
06-07-2012
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http://zerogov.com, by Bill Buppert
It’s funny how the official message of the land of the free and home of the brave is the bigger the government the better.
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Opinion • Philosophy: Libertarianism
Obama: The Myth vs. the Man
06-07-2012
Bob Ross
Incendiary terms to describe the president paint a portrait of a superhero or super-villain depending on your political affiliation. However, they stand in that way of a logical critique of his policies and actions, and the truth of who he really is.
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News Link • Police State
New Jersey State Police Found To Have Withheld Incriminating Video
06-07-2012
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www.jonathanturley.org
Now, a long withheld police video has surfaced that shows troopers severely beating Bayliss who was thrown to the ground and pummeled by multiple officers.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Martial Law
Army “Nutter,” Ray Odierno Goes “Full Stalin+” at CFR
06-07-2012
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www.veteranstoday.com
America’s “Dimwit General” Calls for Martial Law
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News Link • Politics: Libertarian Campaigns
Gary Johnson qualifies for matching funds, will get $100,000 to start
06-07-2012
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New Mexico Watchdog
The Federal Election Commission announced that the Libertarian Party presidential candidate has qualified for federal matching funds and that Johnson’s third-party bid for the nation’s highest office will receive an initial payment of $100,000.
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News Link • Surveillance
New surveillance cameras will use computer eyes to find ‘pre-crimes’ in San Francisco
06-07-2012
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breakthematrix.com
A new generation of computerised ‘Big Brother’ cameras are able to spot if you are a terrorist or a criminal " before you even commit a crime.
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Opinion • Economy - Economics USA
What if?
06-07-2012
Menckens Ghost
What if a social problem accounted from most of the increase in poverty, most of the increase in school dropouts and academic difficulties, most of the increase in behavioral problems and crime, most of the increase in the income gap between rich and
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News Link • Privacy Rights
"Where is the Right to Privacy? It Doesn't Exist if You're a Muslim"
06-07-2012
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http://www.motherjones.com, By Adam Serwer
Meet the New Jersey Muslims taking on the New York Police Department over its sweeping surveillance program.
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News Link • Afghanistan
Afghan Children Dead After US Air Assault: Report
06-07-2012
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http://www.commondreams.org, Common Dreams staff
NATO says only two light injuries to civilians during operation in Logar province, but local official reports at least 17 killed
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Everyone's a suspect: Colorado police handcuff every driver on the road
06-07-2012
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http://rt.com
Reports of a bank robbery in Colorado this week prompted the police to make a split decision to try to catch the culprits.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Panetta admits that US is at war in Pakistan
06-07-2012
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http://rt.com/usa/news/panetta-us-war-pakistan-225
Hold the phone, anti-war activists. President Obama says that American troops are done with Operation Iraqi Freedom and their episode in Afghanistan is almost over.
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News Link • Political Parties
Mitt Romney attended Bilderberg 2012?
06-07-2012
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http://rt.com
The items discussed during last week’s Bilderberg Conference might remain under lock and key, but some eyewitnesses on hand at the elusive meeting of the elite say they might know who was involved in the top-secret talks.
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News Link • Obama Administration
Double Standards on Civilian Deaths
05-30-2012
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John LaForge, Consortiumnews.com
Whenever U.S. forces inflict massive civilian casualties, it’s a “mistake” or the fault of the targets because they were “hiding” in populated areas. Yet, when civilian deaths occur in the country of a “designated enemy,” all ambiguity is swept aside
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
Poll: 24 Percent of Americans Believe States Have a Right to Secede
06-06-2012
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CNS News
24% of Americans believe that states have the right to secede, according to Rasmussen Reports -- up 10% in 2 years. Just one of many showing Americans have “serious and growing concern about the federal government,”
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Feature Article • Criminal Justice System
Limitless Motions In Limine...
Terry Bressi
What's interesting to note in the Motions in limine filed in this case is that we (the plaintiff) filed a single 4-page motion with the court dealing specifically with exclusion of hearsay testimony & any issues not directly related to the specific i
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News Link • Books
R.I.P. Ray Bradbury, Author of Fahrenheit 451 and The Martian Chronicles
06-06-2012
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io9.com via Twitter
Ray Bradbury " author of The Martian Chronicles, Fahrenheit 451, Something Wicked This Way Comes, and many more literary classics " died this morning in Los Angeles, at the age of 91.
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News Link • General Opinion
When Will The Younger Generation Realize How Much We've Screwed Them?
06-06-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Bob Adams
In 1967, I was 22 years old and sitting in a movie theater watching Dustin Hoffman in The Graduate. For my generation at that point, there is one word from that movie that will never be forgotten.
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Opinion • WAR: About that War
Ray McGovern: My Take
Sorting Out the Facts about Iran
06-06-2012
Ray McGovern
Neocons, including the Washington Post’s editors, keep playing games with the facts regarding Iran’s nuclear program. The plan apparently is to guide the U.S. into a military confrontation whether Obama and the American people want one or not.
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