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Date Sent: 2012-11-16
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, November 16, 2012 PM edition |
Obama's Kill List Compels US Support for Israeli Gaza Attacks -- Another Oil Rig Explodes in Gulf
Attorneys: Obama’s ‘secret’ cyber security law may allow ‘military deployment within the U.S.’ -- Public Health Proposal Considers Mandatory ‘Smokers License’ -- Denny's to charge 5% 'Obamacare surcharge' and cut employee hours to deal with cost of m -- White House scrubs petition to ‘punch Grover Norquist in the dick’ -- Postal Service losses tripled to $16 billion -- 11-16-12 -- Ray McGovern - Barry Hess (MP3 & Video LOADED) -- Montana tells lawmaker gold is for fools -- NASA, SpaceX Work to Fix Anomalies from Last Dragon Cargo Flight -- Hostess going out of business after union strikes -- Taliban Oops Reveals Mailing List IDs -- Ongoing Radiation in Fukushima Near Shore -- OPEC Surrenders -- Arab Spring for Gaza and End Game for Israel -- Ducking Google in search engines -- Mother's Death Causes Big Backlash Against Ireland's Abortion Laws -- Is Obama’s War on Hold? Is Washington Mulling Diplomacy on Iran? -- 'Grand Bargain' Charade a Scheme to Protect Corporate Welfare -- 9 Questions That Stump Every Pro-Vaccine Advocate And Their Claims -- Toxic Cough Hits Sandy Victims -- Big Brother: 320 License Plate Reading Police Cars In Maryland; And Growing -- US Bank Run Imminent: FDIC Deposit Insurance Ends December 31 -- Homeland Security spends millions for ‘bio-surveillance’ of social networks -- Congressman Ron Paul: ‘America is broke’ -- FEMA sold off emergency shelters as the East Coast braced for Sandy -- Cracks found in South Carolina atomic station's nuclear reactor head -- BP admits to 11 counts of manslaughter -- Hypocrisy of slaughter: Israel’s Orwellian account of Gaza campaign (Op-Ed)
Webcomic: "Quantum Vibe" by Liberty Artist/Cartoonist Scott Bieser
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama's Kill List Policy Compels US Support for Israeli Attacks on Gaza
11-16-2012
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http://www.commondreams.org, by Glenn Greenwald
The US was once part of the international consensus against extra-judicial assassinations. Now it is a leader in that tactic.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Oil Spill - Gulf of Mexico
Breaking News: Another Oil Rig Explodes in the Gulf
11-16-2012
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WEAR
Coast Guard officials say an oil rig has exploded off the coast of Louisiana, sending four people to hospitals. Two are believed to be missing, and people on the scene are telling the Coast Guard that two people have been killed.
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Bob Ross
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News Link • Just For Fun!
Webcomic at Quantum Vibe by Liberty Artist/Cartoonist Scott Bieser
11-13-2012
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Quantum Vibe
Five hundred years in the future, humans will have spread across the Solar System, establishing thriving colonies on many worlds, moons, and planetoids, and transforming themselves as they adapt to new environments.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Police State
Attorneys: Obama’s ‘secret’ cyber security law may allow ‘military deployment within the U.S.’
11-16-2012
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Rawstory
The Electronic Privacy Information Center demanded President Obama release the text of what they called a “secret” new cyber security law that appears to enable “military deployment within the United States.”
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Public Health Proposal Considers Mandatory ‘Smokers License’
11-16-2012
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CBS News
A public health proposal suggests that tobacco smokers should be required to apply and pay for a “smoker’s license” in order to continue buying cigarettes.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Healthcare
Denny's to charge 5% 'Obamacare surcharge' and cut employee hours to deal with cost of m
11-16-2012
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CBS News
President Obama's election victory ensured his Affordable Care Act would remain the centerpiece of his first term in power - but that has left some business owners baulking at the extra cost Obamcare will bring.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
White House scrubs petition to ‘punch Grover Norquist in the dick’
11-16-2012
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Rawstory
“Peacefully grant the people of the United States of America to have Grover Norquist be brought forth in chains and put in a public pillory. Once Grover Norquist has been secured, anyone who wishes will be allowed to punch him once, and only once,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Government
Postal Service losses tripled to $16 billion
11-16-2012
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AFP
The US Postal Service tripled its losses in 2012, bleeding $15.9 billion as the state-owned enterprise faces tough competition and what it calls onerous and unfair retirement funding requirements. The US mail said its losses rocketed in the year
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Powell Gammill
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Radio/TV Show • Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock - Radio
Host:
Ernest Hancock
11-16-12 -- Ray McGovern - Barry Hess (MP3 & Video LOADED)
Ray McGovern (Retired CIA Analyst) on his latest article, 'Pundit Tears for Petraeus's Fall' - Barry Hess (longtime libertarian activist and former candidate for AZ Governor) on his new book, 'The PeaceMonger'
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Montana tells lawmaker gold is for fools
11-16-2012
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Politico
State Rep. Jerry O’Neil wrote the state legislature asking to be paid his annual $7,000 salary in coins because he wasn’t doing his duty to uphold the U.S. Constitution, which O’Neil says requires the government only print gold-backed money.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
NASA, SpaceX Work to Fix Anomalies from Last Dragon Cargo Flight
11-16-2012
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Yahoo! News blog
Though the first operational cargo mission for the SpaceX Dragon to the International Space Station was ultimately successful, a number of problems cropped up during the flight have both NASA and SpaceX concerned.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Employee and Employer Relations
Hostess going out of business after union strikes
11-16-2012
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Reuters
Hostess Brands Inc, the bankrupt maker of Twinkies and Wonder Bread, has sought a U.S. court's permission to go out of business after failing to get wage and benefit cuts from thousands of its striking bakery workers.
Hostess, which has about $2.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Afghanistan
Taliban Oops Reveals Mailing List IDs
11-16-2012
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ABC News
Somewhere out there, Mullah Omar must be shaking his head. In a Dilbert-esque faux pax, a Taliban spokesperson sent out a routine email last week with one notable difference.He publicly CC'd the names of everyone on his mailing list.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science
Ongoing Radiation in Fukushima NearShore
11-16-2012
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arclein
Japan's "triple disaster," as it has become known, began on March 11, 2011, and remains unprecedented in its scope and complexity. To understand the lingering effects and potential public health implications of that chain of events, scientists are
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robert klein
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News Link • Science
No Methane on Mars?
11-16-2012
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arclein
n 2009, Michael Mumma of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland used an Earth-based telescope and found hotspots of methane that appeared seasonally. Methane is quickly destroyed by ultraviolet radiation in the Martian atmosphere,
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robert klein
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News Link • Energy
OPEC Surrenders
11-16-2012
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arclein
Supplying close to one-third of the world's oil and holding 80% of traditional crude reserves, this latest forecast paints a picture of decline for a multi-national economic structure which remains, as it has always been, reliant on the abundance of
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robert klein
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News Link • Israel - Palestine
Arab Spring for Gaza and End Game for Israel
11-16-2012
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arclein
In fact, while the Arab Spring has invigorated nearly every other revanchist political cause under the sun, thus far it hasn’t unleashed a surge of anti-Zionist fervour.
Anti-Israeli slogans were relatively few and far between in the mass demonstr
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robert klein
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News Link • Internet
Ducking Google in search engines
11-16-2012
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www.washingtonpost.com
Gabriel Weinberg is creator of duckduckgo.com, a search engine that does not track users’ history and information.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Healthcare
Mother's Death Causes Big Backlash Against Ireland's Abortion Laws
11-16-2012
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The Business Insider
Irish abortion laws are facing increasing backlash after a woman, Savita Halappanavar, died last month because the hospital refused to end a deadly pregnancy.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Obama Administration
Is Obama’s War on Hold? Is Washington Mulling Diplomacy on Iran?
11-16-2012
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http://www.globalresearch.ca, By Dr. Ismail Salami
In an apparent volte-face, Obama has revealed that the US has decided to resolve the so-called Iranian nuclear dispute by means of diplomacy.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
'Grand Bargain' Charade a Scheme to Protect Corporate Welfare
11-16-2012
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http://www.commondreams.org, by Ralph Nader
Congress is still talking about a “Grand Bargain” that “balances” far more spending cuts than tax increases.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Vaccines and Vaccinations
9 Questions That Stump Every Pro-Vaccine Advocate And Their Claims
11-16-2012
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http://govtslaves.info, Lire en Français
Since the flu pandemic was declared, there have been several so-called “vaccine experts” coming out of the wood work attempting to justify the effectiveness of vaccines.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Toxic Cough Hits Sandy Victims
11-16-2012
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http://govtslaves.info, John Huddy
A bad cough is going around Far Rockaway, Queens. It is just one example of the post-storm health problems resident of hard-hit areas are exposed to in the aftermath.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Surveillance
Big Brother: 320 Licence Plate Reading Police Cars In Maryland; And Growing
11-16-2012
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http://govtslaves.info, Adam May
A wild chase down Interstate 95 ends with a crash. Police got on the trail of the stolen car using controversial technology increasing across Maryland.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Government
US Bank Run Imminent: FDIC Deposit Insurance Ends December 31
11-16-2012
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http://govtslaves.info, Silver Doctors
As of January 2013 the FDIC stops offering 100% coverage for all insured deposits.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Surveillance
Homeland Security spends millions for ‘biosurveillance’ of social networks
11-16-2012
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http://rt.com
The US Department of Homeland Security has signed a multi-million dollar contract with a global management consulting firm to boost the country’s attempt to master biosurveillance using social networks.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Congressman Ron Paul: ‘America is broke’
11-16-2012
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http://rt.com
The US “cannot go on much longer” if it continues to spend and consume in the existing way, according to Ron Paul
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Robert Lee
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News Link • F.E.M.A.
FEMA sold off emergency shelters as the East Coast braced for Sandy
11-16-2012
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http://rt.com
The Federal Emergency Management Agency was praised by President Obama for its handling of Superstorm Sandy, but not all East Coast residents ravaged by Mother Nature last month would agree.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Energy
Cracks found in South Carolina atomic station's nuclear reactor head
11-16-2012
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http://rt.com
The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission has ordered engineers at a power plant in South Carolina to act urgently on cracks that have appeared in a reactor head there that could increase the likelihood of an atomic disaster.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Military
New US commander in Afghanistan pledges to stay past Obama’s deadline
11-16-2012
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http://rt.com
The incoming top commander in charge of the United States’ military efforts in Afghanistan made remarks to Congress on Thursday that suggest he sees a US presence extending overseas well past US President Barack Obama’s deadline of 2014.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Oil Spill - Gulf of Mexico
BP admits to 11 counts of manslaughter
11-16-2012
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http://rt.com
Oil giant BP will fork over the largest criminal penalty in the history of the United States and plead guilty to criminal misconduct, sources report, with more charges possibly forthcoming over the 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Israel - Palestine
Hypocrisy of slaughter: Israel’s Orwellian account of Gaza campaign (Op-Ed)
11-16-2012
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http://rt.com
Israel’s assault on Gaza raises doubts that it has any interest in finding the lasting peace settlement it proclaims to want.
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Robert Lee
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Feature Article • Secession
SECEDE TO SUCCEED!
David McElroy
Citizens of all 50 states have petitioned the White House seeking to secede. Ron Paul has delivered us his magnum opus on liberty in farewell. It is time to foreclose on Uncle Sam!
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News Link • Corruption
How The Stock Market Is Programmed
11-14-2012
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The DOW Code
The hidden system (the engine of our market) is written by a human hand, with the help of his/her programming computer. The Achilles Heel of hiding the system is: The Programmer's computer has to be perfect to the one hundredth, tied to the exact Hig
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Police State
Rand Paul: Is 1984 Now?
11-14-2012
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YouTube
Rand Paul discusses the insanity of NDAA and the emerging Orwellian police state.
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Joe Plummer
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News Link • States' Rights
SECESSION MOVEMENT EXPLODES
11-14-2012
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www.dailycaller.com
White House ‘secede’ petitions reach 675,000 signatures, 50-state participation
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
MIT breakthrough could lead to paper-thin bullet-proof armor
11-14-2012
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http://www.gizmag.com, By Jason Falconer
Scientists have theorized that paper-thin composite nanomaterials could stop bullets just as effectively as heavy weight body armor, but progress has been hampered by their inability to reliably test such materials against projectile impacts.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Marc Faber: Prepare for a Massive Market Meltdown
11-13-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Holly Ellyatt
The markets are going to go into meltdown soon, so expect stocks to lose 20 percent of their value, Marc Faber, author of the Gloom, Boom and Doom report told CNBC on Tuesday.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Just For Fun!
Doug Stanhope - Liberty (Language Warning)
11-13-2012
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http://www.youtube.com, Isaac Davies
Excerpt from Doug Stanhope's "Deadbeat Hero" (very funny and poignant from a contemporary libertarian comic)
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Voting and Elections
"The Little Government That Could" A Must-see 6 Min. Video Told So That Even A 6 Yr. -Old
11-06-2012
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http://www.dailypaul.com, yogmama
Watch this little video. Its very timely and one that you will want to pass around to those who need another little, but gentler nudge to WAKE UP!
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Robert Lee
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News Link • World News
‘Destroy the idols,’ Egyptian jihadist calls for removal of Sphinx, Pyramids
11-13-2012
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An Egyptian jihad leader, with self-professed links to the Taliban, called for the “destruction of the Sphinx and the Giza Pyramids in Egypt,” drawing ties between the Egyptian relics and Buddha statues, local media reported this week.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Government
Archaic Gambling Laws
11-13-2012
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Lew Rockwell blog
During Prohibition, my grandmother made beer in a hidden room and sold it locally, until a neighbor snitched on her. My mom, a youngster, used to distribute the beer in pails. My dad drove a taxi for a short spell and he too carried booze.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Afghanistan
Army Seeks Death Penalty in Afghan Massacre
11-13-2012
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New York Times
A military prosecutor said the evidence against Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, presented in a pretrial inquiry into the killings of 16 Afghan civilians, was so damning that the case should go forward as a capital crime.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Surveillance
Online Privacy Issue Is Also in Play in Petraeus Scandal
11-13-2012
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New York Times
“There should be an investigation not of the personal behavior of General Petraeus and General Allen, but of what surveillance powers the F.B.I. used to look into their private lives,” the executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union, sai
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Video: Police shoot dog in Omaha
11-13-2012
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Grainy as it is, the video shows officers stopping the man, who they described as drunk and defiant. One officer takes him down; the other shoots the dog he was walking. Of course they arrest the dog owner for resisting arrest.
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News Link • Heroes
Scandal probe ensnares commander of U.S., NATO troops in Afghanistan
11-13-2012
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Craig Whitlock, Washington Post
The FBI probe into the sex scandal that led to the resignation of CIA director David Petraeus has expanded to ensnare Gen. John R. Allen, the commander of U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan, the Pentagon announced early Tuesday.
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Cyberspace and the New Economy
Kantara floats voluntary-compulsory authentication for social saftey nets
11-13-2012
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BeatTheChip.org
NSTIC, the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace, is working with Kantara to bring an authentication credential system online for US social service recipients. Kantara's involvement would make transactional monitoring between recipi
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Sheila Dean
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News Link • Surveillance
Police State North America: The U.S.-Canada Integrated Cybersecurity Agenda
11-13-2012
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Dana Gabriel
As part of the Beyond the Border initiative, the U.S. and Canada are strengthening cybersecurity cooperation. In a move that received little attention, both countries recently announced a joint cybersecurity action plan. Cyber threats know no nationa
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Sheila Dean
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News Link • Philosophy: Fascism
Lobbyists Feign Budget 'Fix': Trojan Horse Filled with Corporate Tax Breaks
11-13-2012
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http://www.commondreams.org, Common Dreams staff
As boisterous threats of the 'fiscal cliff' persist and progressive voices urge President Barack Obama to avoid falling for shortsighted solutions to illusory ultimatums
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Homeland Security
DHS Labels New York Food Carts As Possible Terrorist Access Points
11-13-2012
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http://govtslaves.info, Tim Cushing
It’s interesting (or maybe just kind of sad) that various government agencies see possible terrorists everywhere but rarely, if ever, catch one.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Privacy Rights
Judge Napolitano ‘What Were FBI Agents Doing Monitoring Petraeus’ Private Email Account
11-13-2012
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http://govtslaves.info, Staff
Judge Napolitano takes over Studio B raising privacy questions the mainstream media has forgotten to ask.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Government
San Diego Residents Face 6 Years In Prison For Washing Their Car
11-13-2012
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http://govtslaves.info, Paul Joseph Watson
San Diegans could face 6 years in prison and fines of $100,000 dollars a day for washing their car in the driveway or failing to pick up dog poop under new EPA-mandated environmental regulations related to water quality.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gun Rights
US Guns Sales Soar After Barack Obama's Re-Election
11-13-2012
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http://lewrockwell.com, by Nick Allen
Gun sales in America are soaring in the wake of President Barack Obama's re-election with weapons retailers reporting AK-47s flying off shelves "like hotcakes."
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Biology, Botany and Zoology
A Carbon Microthread That Makes Contact with the Mind
11-13-2012
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http://www.technologyreview.com, By Antonio Regala
An ultrathin electrode spun from a single carbon fiber can record neurons in living animals.
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