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Date Sent: 2012-10-22
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Monday, October 22, 2012 PM edition |
Government wants to jail whistleblower for revealing CIA's 'Prime Torturer'
On Our Way We Lost It: Liberty -- Russian Nuclear Forces Ordered On “High Alert” Over US War Fears -- South Korean activists send leaflets to North Korea -- Russia's jailed punk rock band members sent to prison camps -- SpaceX Designing Massive New Engine -- Obama's Foreign Policy Gap with Lawrence Solomon -- Russell Means, Indian activist, actor, dies at 72 -- George McGovern was another political scumbag until he bought an Inn -- Will the Apocalypse Arrive Online? -- McGovern: He Never Sold His Soul -- “Homegrown Terrorism” and Terrorism by Association -- US Election Concern: What Is There To Vote For? -- Government Not Happy With App That Allows Users To Encrypt Cell Phone Communications -- Obama And Romney Both Favor A System That Kills American Jobs -- Max Keiser: How To Defeat The Banking Mafia -- Survival Intelligence – Don’t Underestimate the Power of Information -- CIA claims it needs more drones -- Dubious Reports About Fidel Castro's Health -- Rage Against Austerity
Historic Presidential Debate (online/satellite) - Tomorrow, October
23; RT presents third-party presidential debate
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Government wants to jail whistleblower for revealing CIA's 'Prime Torturer'
10-22-2012
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http://rt.com
The former CIA analyst who went public with the US government’s torturing of suspected terrorists has suffered a major setback this week in his attempt to avoid imprisonment amid a federal witch-hunt targeting whistleblowers.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Politics: Independent and Other Campaigns
RT presents third-party presidential debate
10-22-2012
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http://rt.com
When the dust settles after next week’s third and final debate between US President Barack Obama and challenger Mitt Romney, Americans will be left to choose between just two men to run the country. Unless, of course, they turn to RT.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Political Parties
Historic Presidential Debate - October 23
10-19-2012
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by P.Au.L
Don’t miss this historic Presidential debate, moderated by Larry King, broadcast online, and via satellite worldwide!
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News Link • Philosophy: Fascism
On Our Way We Lost It: Liberty
10-21-2012
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You Tube
A video photostory with music displaying how mainstream politics and the media shield us from our growing authoritarian state.
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Earl Duane
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Russian Nuclear Forces Ordered On “High Alert” Over US War Fears
10-22-2012
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http://newswalls.blogspot.com
A grim report issued today by Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov states that all Russian nuclear forces and Airborne Troops (VDV) have been ordered by President Putin to extend their full combat alert status put into place by former President Medvede
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Alex Oscar
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News Link • Activism
South Korean activists send leaflets to North Korea
10-22-2012
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AP
South Korean police, citing security concerns, sent hundreds of officers Monday to seal off roads and prevent the activists and other people from gathering at an announced launch site near the border.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Russia's jailed punk rock band members sent to prison camps
10-22-2012
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Reuters
The women's lawyers said tried to argue they should be allowed to remain in jail in Moscow, saying it would have permitted them to be closer to their small children. They had also cited health and safety concerns at far-flung penal colonies.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science
Stink Bug Issues
10-22-2012
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arclein
Further options for stink bug management that are being explored include the use of trap crops and enhancing beneficial parasitoid populations. Cultural options, including trap cropping and the planting of resistant varieties, have been documented as
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robert klein
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
SpaceX Designing Massive New Engine
10-22-2012
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arclein
Musk said the new rocket, which he calls MCT, will be "several times" as powerful as the 1 Merlin series, and won't use Merlin's RP-1 fuel. Beyond adding that it will have "a very big core size", he declined to elaborate, promising more details
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robert klein
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Obama's Foreign Policy Gap with Lawrence Solomon
10-22-2012
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arclein
As for Obama, none of his foreign-policy accomplishments rise to the level of triumph; moreover, his accomplishments are few and often unlikely to be lasting. Obama did help overthrow Gaddafi from Libya, he did pull out troops from Iraq and is on tra
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News Link • Death
Russell Means, Indian activist, actor, dies at 72
10-22-2012
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AP
Russell Means never shunned attention. Whether leading Native Americans in railing against broken federal treaties, helped lead the 1973 uprising at Wounded Knee or advocating a sovereign American Indian nation within U.S. borders,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Congress-Congressmen
George McGovern was another political scumbag until he bought an Inn
10-22-2012
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Free Republic
Name a tax hike, spending bill or new regulation, and very likely McGovern supported it. But after he left the Senate in 1981, something happened that profoundly changed several of his most deeply held views. McGovern went into business
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Privacy Rights
Will the Apocalypse Arrive Online?
10-22-2012
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http://www.commondreams.org, by Karen Greenberg
How Fear of Cyber Attack Could Take Down Your Liberties and the Constitution
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Death
McGovern: He Never Sold His Soul
10-22-2012
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http://www.commondreams.org, by Chris Hedges
In the summer of 1972, when I was 15, I persuaded my parents to let me ride my bike down to the local George McGovern headquarters every morning to work on his campaign.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • TERRORISM
“Homegrown Terrorism” and Terrorism by Association
10-22-2012
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http://www.globalresearch.ca, by Michael S. Rozeff
How misleading can a “news” article get? Try this headline: “Federal Reserve bombing plot foiled in NYC”.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Wallet Voting
US Election Concern: What Is There To Vote For?
10-22-2012
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http://www.globalresearch.ca, By Danny Schechter
As Americans prepare to go to the polls, the airwaves are littered with paid advertising of the crassest and most manipulative kind. Political issues packaged by ad agencies are flooding the arena of politics with nasty negative ads.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Technology: Software
Government Not Happy With App That Allows Users To Encrypt Cell Phone Communications
10-22-2012
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http://govtslaves.info, Ryan Gallagher
Lately, Mike Janke has been getting what he calls the “hairy eyeball” from international government agencies.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Employment & Jobs
Obama And Romney Both Favor A System That Kills American Jobs
10-22-2012
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http://govtslaves.info, Michael Snyder
Either way this election turns out, American jobs are going to continue to get slaughtered by the millions.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - International
Max Keiser: How To Defeat The Banking Mafia
10-22-2012
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http://govtslaves.info, Thomas Dishaw
Max Keiser makes his way to the “money bomb” discussing the global banking mafia and how it affects you.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Outdoor Survival
Survival Intelligence " Don’t Underestimate the Power of Information
10-22-2012
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http://offgridsurvival.com
The ability to be able to predict what will happen in a survival situation is an important part of being prepared.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
CIA claims it needs more drones
10-22-2012
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http://rt.com
The CIA has asked the White House to increase the number of drones it employs to transform it into a paramilitary force, despite recent statistics that show the majority of drone deaths are civilians.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Internet
Texas Woman Charged With Publishing Picture of Undercover Officer Found On His Facebook Page
10-21-2012
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http://jonathanturley.org
With Friends Like This: Texas Woman Charged With Publishing Picture of Undercover Officer Found On His Facebook Page
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News Link • Government
Deciding the Future of Puerto Rico
10-21-2012
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Free Press Publications
Voters in Puerto Rico are preparing to reconsider the island’s relationship with the federal government. This is the first time since 1998 that voters have been asked to reconsider the fate of the island territory.
No matter what the results of th
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Darryl W. Perry
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Reference Link • Food
Prop 37 and Food Supply Safety
www.thecommonsenseshow.com
Barb Peterson (farmwars.info) as she and Dave discuss the labeling of GMO’s and the controversial Prop 37, which is on the ballot this November. If passed, GMO’s would have to be labeled
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
3 bank failures bring US 2012 total to 46
10-19-2012
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AP
Regulators closed 2 small banks in Florida and one in Missouri, bringing to 46 the number of US bank failures this year. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. seized GulfSouth Private Bank and First East Side Savings Bank, both in Florida.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
9/11 trial: Did US have improper influence? Lawyer asks judge for help
10-19-2012
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Christian Science Monitor
A defense lawyer in the 9/11 war crimes tribunal at Guantánamo said the former chief prosecutor for military commissions refused at least 25 times to answer his questions about whether there had been any improper influence from senior Defense Departm
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
Judge: George Zimmerman's attorneys can examine Trayvon Martin's school, social media record
10-19-2012
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AP
A Florida judge has ruled that George Zimmerman's defense team can have access to Trayvon Martin's school records and can subpoena his social media posts, CBS affiliate WKMG reports.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • History
FDR's 1932 Pittsburgh Speech: A Masterful Deception - by Gary North
10-19-2012
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Lew Rockwell
"Franklin Roosevelt is no crusader. He is no tribune of the people. He is no enemy of entrenched privilege. He is a pleasant man who, without any important qualifications for office, would very much like to be President."
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
A Biker, a Blonde, a Jihadist and Piles of C.I.A. Cash
10-19-2012
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New York Times
Neither Mr. Awlaki nor his prospective wife knew it, but their match was being managed by a Danish double agent as part of an attempt to help the Danish intelligence service and the C.I.A. find the cleric’s hiding place in Yemen.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Government
Pay gap widens for federal workers, panel says
10-19-2012
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Washington Post
White-collar federal employees are underpaid on average by about 35 percent compared with the private sector, a widening of the “pay gap,” which stood at about 26 percent last year, an advisory group said Friday.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Syria
U.S. steps up support of Turkey amid Syrian conflict
10-19-2012
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Washington Post
The US government is intensifying its intelligence sharing and military consultations with Turkey behind the scenes as both countries confront the Syria’s civil conflict could escalate into a regional war, according to US and NATO officials.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Transportation
Detroit's Heroic Anarcho-Bus Company
10-19-2012
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Lew Rockwell blog
This year saw the birth of a new, private bus company in Detroit, and it's called the Detroit Bus Company. The owner and founder, 25-year-old Andy Didorosi stated that his company is "trying to change what people think about buses."
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Israel
Israel Threatens Aid Ship Seeking to Deliver Food to Gaza
10-19-2012
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http://news.antiwar.com, by Jason Ditz
Ambassador Demands UN Intervention to Prevent Food From Being Delivered
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News Link • Afghanistan
Bomb kills 19 Afghan wedding partygoers
10-19-2012
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http://www.reuters.com
A roadside bomb killed at least 19 people, mostly women and children, who were on their way to a wedding in Afghanistan's north on Friday, local police officials said.
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
License Plate Frame Foils Irksome Traffic-Light Cameras
10-19-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By Jakob Schiller
Traffic-light tickets have ticked off a gazillion drivers, some of whom have had to fork over $500 for running a light. Now there’s a way for you to throw a monkey wrench into that money-making machine.
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Free Online Education Is Now Illegal in Minnesota
10-19-2012
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Will Oremus/Slate
With the rise of the internet reformation, many students are discovering they can educate themselves more thoroughly and cheaply online. Minnesota is looking to put a stop to that by making free online courses illegal.
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Bob Ross
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News Link • Police State
A Commissarina Rises: Wendy J. Olson's Reign of Terror
10-19-2012
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by William N. Grigg (Pro Liberate)
The IRS operatives offered to buy 2 vehicles, a Jeep Cherokee and a Mercedes, for $55,000 in cash " if Johnson agreed not to use the customers’ “real” names or file the federal paperwork required for cash transactions over $10,000.
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Reference Link • Gulf Oil Spill
The Ongoing Great Gulf Coast Holocaust (Part 1)
www.thecommonsenseshow.com
This new series will expose the fact that BP, Halliburton, Goldman Sachs, Transocean and David Rockefeller’s and the Queen of England’s New York City for Profit members had foreknowledge and hedged their stock market bets in anticipation of the event
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News Link • Philosophy: Anarchism
Targeting Anarchists
10-19-2012
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http://dailyanarchist.com, by Seth King
There has been quite a stir recently in anarchist circles on facebook regarding the imprisonment of three individuals from the Pacific northwest for refusing to cooperate with the feds.
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News Link • General Opinion
Call The Cops At Your Own Risk
10-19-2012
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by Jeff Berwick
Would you dial up a known criminal, like a murderer or rapist, to come help you after you've been the victim of a crime? No? Then why in the world would you call the police after you've been assaulted, robbed or otherwise violated?
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News Link • Currencies
Now Mexico Bans Cash
10-19-2012
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http://www.thedailybell.com, by Staff Report
What we consider to be the "phony" war on terror is the gift that keeps on giving to those who run our governments.
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News Link • 911 / World Trade Center
Martin Sheen and Woody Harrelson set for 9/11 'truther' film September Morn
10-19-2012
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http://www.guardian.co.uk, Rory Carroll
Film's advance publicity says: 'We the people demand an independent investigation into the tragic events of 9/11'
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News Link • Obama Administration
Another Obama Executive Order Allows Seizure of Americans’ Bank Accounts
10-19-2012
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by Ian56
The latest executive order (EO) emanating from the White House October 9 now claims the power to freeze all bank accounts and stop any related financial transactions that a “sanctioned person” may own or try to perform " all in the name of “Iran Sanc
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News Link • TERRORISM
Bangladeshi Immigrant Arrested in FBI Terror Sting
10-19-2012
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http://news.antiwar.com, by John Glaser
The 21-year-old allegedly aimed to 'destroy America' and participated in a fake FBI plot to blow up the Federal Reserve Bank of New York
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News Link • Israel
US Troops Arrive in Israel for Three-Week Missile Defense Drill
10-19-2012
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http://news.antiwar.com, by Jason Ditz
'Largest US-Israeli Exercise in History'
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News Link • NATO
NATO ‘Regrets’ Killing Children in Southern Afghan Attack
10-19-2012
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http://news.antiwar.com, by Jason Ditz
Backs Off Speculation Kids Might Have Been Taliban
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News Link • Environment
Rogue Geoengineer Dumps 100 Tons Of Iron Off Canada's West Coast
10-19-2012
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http://www.popsci.com, By Clay Dillow
Geoengineering is always controversial, but it's even more controversial when you don't tell anyone first.
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