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Date Sent: 2012-10-16
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Tuesday, October 16, 2012 PM edition |
Switzerland arming in preparation for European meltdown? -- Cuba scraps exit visa requirement
State Department official: Negotiations to extend U.S. troop presence in Afghanistan starting soon -- "One World Government?... then I guess we'll have A Worldwide LOV3olution!" -- L.A. Fracking Study By and For Gas Industry, Not L.A. -- 'Time is
Now to Make a Stand': Tar Sands Pipeline Blockade Grows as Company
Lashes Out -- Why The Rich Keep Getting Richer -- 10-16-12 -- Dennis McClung - Drew Phillips - LISTEN LIVE on LRN.FM, M-F, 9-Noon
(EST) -- Natives join 'hipsters' in reviving Detroit -- Former Serb
leader Karadzic: I deserve reward, not punishment -- Smoking in cars
higher than UN pollution threshold -- Google rejects EU privacy
challenge -- --
Professors Who Predicted Right Result Since 1980 Foresee Romney
Victory -- Desperation: Greece To Allow Sale of Expired Foods to
Citizens -- Ground under Fukushima Unit 4 sinking, structure on
verge of complete collapse -- Poisonous cloud
sparks mass evacuation after Kraft Foods leak in Germany (VIDEO,
PHOTOS) -- Panama plans to add euro to dollar -- UK blocks 'UFO-hacker'
McKinnon extradition to US -- Don’t Vote for Evil: Evil is Evil -- President Obama Has Turned Journalists into
Criminals -- The Sanctions Game - by Stephen Lendman -- Thoughts at Perhaps the Most
Perilous Time in World History -- The Amerikan Blueprint for
Enslavement and Eventual Extermination - by Dave Hodges
AZ: Fruit Trees 4 Community offered by Garden Pool - Deadline for orders
is November the 10th
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News Link • Military
Switzerland arming in preparation for European meltdown?
10-16-2012
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RT.com
The Swiss Army is preparing contingency plans for violent unrest across Europe. A nation mostly famous for its banks, watches and chocolate fears it may face a massive influx of European refugees in the near future.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Cuba
Cuba scraps exit visa requirement
10-16-2012
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Associated Press
Cuban government announced Tuesday that it will no longer require islanders to apply for an exit visa, eliminating a much-loathed bureaucratic procedure that has been a major impediment for many seeking to travel overseas.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Afghanistan
State Department official: Negotiations to extend U.S. troop presence in Afghanistan starting soon
10-16-2012
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Foreign Policy
Despite statements by Vice President Joe Biden, the State Department is about to begin formal negotiations over the extension of U.S. troops past 2014, a top State Department official said Tuesday.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Archaeology
Roman Hades
10-16-2012
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arclein
and once possessed a crater that measured eight miles across"but most of it is underwater now. The portion that is still accessible on land consists of a barren, rubble-strewn plateau. Fire bursts from the rocks in places, and clouds of sulfurous ga
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News Link • Science
One Foot Slime Mold and Swamp Gas
10-16-2012
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arclein
"The key misunderstanding might be that slime mold has a memory like we do," Reid told LiveScience. "I can't stress enough that the slime mold is incapable of creating, storing or recalling memories like ours, because it does not have a brain, or
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Graphene Tunnel Barrier
10-16-2012
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arclein
) have shown that graphene can serve as an excellent tunnel barrier when current is directed perpendicular to the plane of carbon atoms. The spin polarization of the current is also preserved by the tunnel barrier, a finding that could have important
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
You Know Inflation’s a Problem When the Cereal Box Gives Away Gas Cards
10-16-2012
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http://www.investmentcontrarians.com/inflation/
Elections are important, maybe even the cornerstone of a democracy; but sometimes voters are just too busy to listen to everything being said by the Obama or Romney camps. Thank heaven sound bites can sum up everything we think we need to know.
He
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Alex Oscar
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News Link • United Nations
Worried About America? You’d Better Watch China
10-16-2012
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http://www.investmentcontrarians.com/inflation/
What happens in China will have an impact on the U.S. economy and the global economy. The linkage between economies worldwide has become more profound over the past decade. This is why, as an investor, you need to be fully aware of the situation acro
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News Link • Environment
L.A. Fracking Study By and For Gas Industry, Not L.A.
10-16-2012
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Common Dreams
A long-awaited report that could open the floodgates for fracking in LA County.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Activism
'Time is Now to Make a Stand': Tar Sands Pipeline Blockade Grows as Company Lashes Out
10-16-2012
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Common Dreams
50 campaigners break police lines to re-supply tree-sitters as month-long action continues
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Books
Why The Rich Keep Getting Richer
10-16-2012
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Business Insider
Do you dream of becoming rich but aren't sure how to make your millions"or better yet, billions?
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Entrepreneurship
Natives join 'hipsters' in reviving Detroit
10-16-2012
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Christian Science Monitor
A burst of youthful energy " from native Detroiters and new immigrants " debunks the opinion that nothing can be done to jumpstart the Motor City.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • World News
Former Serb leader Karadzic: I deserve reward, not punishment
10-16-2012
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Christian Science Monitor
Former Serbian leader Radovan Karadzic is on trial at The Hague for 10 counts of genocide and crimes against humanity. He opened his defense today by saying he had done everything 'in human power' to avoid war.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Smoking in cars higher than UN pollution threshold
10-16-2012
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Raw Story
Smoking in cars raises levels of dangerous fine-particle pollutants to many times the limit recommended by the world’s health agency, a study published on Monday said.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Internet
Google rejects EU privacy challenge
10-16-2012
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Aljazeera
The internet power house stands by its decision to track user activity across various services for targeted advertising.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Future Predictions
Professors Who Predicted Right Result Since 1980 Foresee Romney Victory
10-16-2012
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Prison Planet
The forecast of the 2012 Presidential Election by Michael Berry and Kenneth Bicker, political science professors at the University of Colorado, that was released in August has been updated with more current economic information.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - International
Desperation: Greece To Allow Sale of Expired Foods to Citizens
10-16-2012
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Prison Planet
In just a few years we’ve seen the country of Greece go from being a popular tourist destination in one of the world’s largest economic regions, to being on the brink of complete and utter collapse.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Japan - Earthquake Tsunami Radiation
Ground under Fukushima Unit 4 sinking, structure on verge of complete collapse
10-16-2012
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Prison Planet
Though the mainstream media has long since abandoned the issue, the precarious situation at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power facility in Japan is only continuing to worsen, according to a prominent Japanese official.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Evacuations & Catastrophe
Poisonous cloud sparks mass evacuation after Kraft Foods leak in Germany (VIDEO, PHOTOS)
10-16-2012
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RT.com
Seven hundred firefighters are struggling to extinguish a blaze at a German Kraft Foods factory, hours after a chemical leak triggered a mass evacuation. One thousand eight hundred people were removed from the area.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - International
Panama plans to add euro to dollar
10-16-2012
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RT.com
Panama is considering introducing the euro as legal tender alongside the US dollar, the country’s President Ricardo Martinelli has announced.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Internet
UK blocks 'UFO-hacker' McKinnon extradition to US
10-16-2012
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RT.com
Home Secretary Theresa May has announced that Gary McKinnon, who was accused of hacking into the Pentagon’s computer network, will not be extradited to the US. The move is due to the risk of McKinnon ending his own life.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Voting and Elections
Don’t Vote for Evil: Evil is Evil
10-14-2012
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PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS
As Gerald Celente says in the Autumn Issue of the Trends Journal, when confronted with the choice between two evils, you don’t vote for the lessor evil. You boycott the election and do not vote. “Lessor or greater, evil is evil.”
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Agriculture
Fruit Trees 4 Community offered by Garden Pool - Deadline for orders is November the 10th
10-10-2012
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www.gardenpool.org
The Fruit Tree 4 Community, or FT4C, is a program to strengthen the local community with the benefits of a bulk-order wholesale discount on a great assortment of fruit trees that were hand-picked to do well in our climate
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Free Speech
President Obama Has Turned Journalists into Criminals
10-16-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
If by “change” President Obama meant criminalizing journalism in the United States, then he’s succeeded.
Why should you care? The investigative journalism that Obama has silenced could have exposed more corruption in the U.S. government, military
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Chris Menke
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News Link • r3VOLution Continues
The Future Of The Ron Paul Revolution
10-15-2012
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undercoverporcupine.bangordailynews
There’s been much discussion about the future of the Ron Paul people. The easy conclusion is it is a difficult call to make, given the fact that the movement itself is extremely diverse and full of individuals with strong conviction.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Philosophy: Political
Compelling Election or Last Gasp of US Representative Democracy?
10-15-2012
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The Daily Bell
As the U.S. prepares to vote, the world watches ... America's friends around the globe are watching the presidential elections with a mixture of horror and hope.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Employment & Jobs
The Economic Case for Right-to-Work
10-15-2012
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The Daily Bell
The current economic crisis that has gripped the United States over the last several years has been especially negative in its affects on the levels and opportunities for employment in various parts of the country.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • General Opinion
How ‘scientific poisoners’ threaten the future of life on planet Earth
10-15-2012
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Prison Planet
There is a battle being waged for your mind. To the victor comes influence over your beliefs, you purchase decisions, and even your values.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Politics: Democratic Campaigns
Are Election Riots Coming if Obama Loses?
10-15-2012
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Prison Planet
Alex covers the Internet firestorm of tweets and Facebook posts from people pledging to riot if Obama loses the election, as covered in Michael Snyder’s article “Will the Election Results Cause Massive Riots to Erupt All Over America?”
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - International
Portugal braces for austerity-laden budget
10-15-2012
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Aljazeera
Draft budget set to raise taxes despite austerity fatigue and can push Portugal into a recessive spiral like Greece.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Syria
Syrian rivals battle over strategic cities
10-15-2012
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Aljazeera
Rebels push Syrian army out of Maarat Al Numan as fighting over vital northern cities intensifies.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Homeland Security
Mexican mayor says boy shot by US agent 7 times
10-14-2012
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AP
A teenage boy apparently killed this week by a U.S. Border Patrol agent was hit seven times by gunfire and died on a sidewalk just across the Arizona-Mexico border, a mayor in Mexico said Friday.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Environment
Global warming stopped 16 years ago, reveals Met Office report quietly released
10-14-2012
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Daily Mail
From the beginning of 1997 until August 2012 there was no discernible rise in aggregate global temperatures. This means the ‘pause’ in global warming has lasted for the same time as the previous period when temperatures rose, 1980 to 1996.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Public trust strained as Jackson County drug task force shooting details unfold
10-14-2012
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"This is just an unfortunate case that has caused some public doubt," Moss Point police Chief Keith Davis said. "At the end of the day, I want the public to be able to trust law enforcement in Jackson County."
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Texas Cops Arrest Pair for Reposting Undercover Cop's Facebook Photo
10-14-2012
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Photography Is Not a Crime
A Texas woman who came across a Facebook photo of an undercover cop was arrested after she posted the photo on her own Facebook page. Melissa Walthall was charged with retaliation, a felony charge that can land her in prison for ten years.
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News Link • Syria
Russia: Syria Jet Carrying Perfectly Legal Radar Parts
10-14-2012
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AntiWar
While the Turkish government has refused to provide any details about the supposedly “objectionable” material they seized from a detained Syrian passenger plane this week, Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov has provided some details.
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Opinion • Healthcare
Words Eye View
Marked for Death
10-14-2012
Greg J Dixon
On October 12, at approximately 11 am, I heard Neal Boortz make the following statement on his radio program ...
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News Link • General Opinion
Pariahs among us: Sex offender laws in the 21st century
10-14-2012
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Aljazeera
Stringent sex offender laws in the United States destroy lives and do little to mitigate repeat offences.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Privacy Rights
Dear John: US police use public humiliation to fight prostitution
10-14-2012
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RT.com
Hiring a prostitute is no longer an anonymous act: men who pay for sex now face public humiliation as a form of punishment.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Activism
Global Noise takes on austerity: 'We are not going to be silent'
10-14-2012
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RT.com
Demonstrators across the world are calling for an end to austerity as Global Noise protests kick off in more than 30 countries, including many in the Nobel Peace laureate European Union.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Horrors of war: US, UK munitions ‘cause birth defects in Iraq’
10-14-2012
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RT.com
US and UK weapons ammunition were linked to heart defects, brain dysfunctions and malformed limbs, according to a recent study. The report revealed a shocking rise in birth defects in Iraqi children conceived after the US invasion.
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News Link • World News
Hundreds of police storm Brazilian slums
10-14-2012
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RT.com
Brazilian troops and police swept through Rio’s most infamous slums in a pre-dawn raid, backed up by helicopters and tanks. The “pacification” mission is intended to bring the crime-ridden favelas to heel before the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympics.
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Bernanke defends Fed stimulus as China, Brazil raise concerns
10-14-2012
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Reuters
* Bernanke defends Fed policy from foreign critics
* Brazil says U.S. policy unfair, China warns on inflation
* Bernanke blames some emerging economies' forex policies for tensions
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Longtime GOP Senate moderate Arlen Specter dies
10-14-2012
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AP
Former U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter, the outspoken Pennsylvania centrist whose switch from Republican to Democrat ended a 30-year career in which he played a pivotal role in several Supreme Court nominations, died Sunday. He was 82.
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News Link • World News
Wounded Mauritania president flown to Paris
10-14-2012
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Aljazeera
Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz makes televised appeal for calm after soldiers allegedly open fire on his convoy by mistake.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • World News
Chile envoy in Ghana over held Argentine ship
10-14-2012
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Aljazeera
Chile will send envoys to Ghana in an attempt to persuade the West African nation to release an Argentine navy ship seized over a dispute with creditors, a top government official has said.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
World's Highest Skydive! Daredevil Makes Record-Breaking Supersonic Jump
10-13-2012
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Space
Successfully jumped from 128,000 feet. Landed safely. Broke speed of sound barrier, highest accent in a balloon for a human and highest freefall. But was traveling too fast to exceed longest time in freefall.
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News Link • POWER to the People
For dollars' worth of copper farmers out thousands
10-14-2012
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Associated Press
Cannon Michael is a folk hero across California's agriculture heartland, where these days the price of scrap metal influences a farmer's bottom line as much that of the fine pima cotton he grows.
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