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Date Sent: 2012-12-05
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Wednesday, December 5, 2012 AM edition |
3-D Printed Gun Only Lasts 6 Shots (Only?!) -- UN internet regulation treaty talks begin in Dubai
Like Pinocchio, Your Nose Shows When You Lie -- GOP leaders remove 4 from plum House committees -- Lest Darkness Triumph - by L. Neil Smith -- Senate passes $631 billion defense bill -- and Horizontal Gene Transfer – The GMO Connection -- The Fraud of the Cease Fire -- 12-05-12 -- Jordan Page - Michael Badnarik - LISTEN LIVE on LRN.FM, M-F, 9-Noon (EST) -- When a Pervert Calls the Sociopaths’ Bluff -- The Fight Against the Total Surveillance State in Our Schools -- The U.S. Has Perfected Good Cop / Bad Cop -- Vision-Restoring Implants that Fit Inside the Eye -- Balloon Test Shows Space Tourism on the Horizon -- Lock Your Doors And Prepare To Defend Your Family -- Deputy Police Chief Calls For “Permanent” DWI Checkpoints In Texas -- TSA Seeks Permission to Conduct “Security Assessments” on Highways -- MAKE DIPLOMACY, NOT WAR -- Change on veterans’ gun rights lights fire -- Alex Jones Calls for Boycott of NFL, NBC and Bob Costas -- Egypt's Mursi flees palace as police battle protesters -- Thousands ready to march on Egypt president palace -- MITCHELL: Obama making up drone rules as he goes -- Texas Threatens To Lock Up Advocates Of Obama’s Unconstitutional NDAA -- The Feds Want To Spy On Everything -- US Ending the War in Afghanistan? It Depends on the Meaning of the Word ‘War’ -- Bradley Manning: a tale of liberty lost in America -- Dick Armey Quits Tea Party Group in Split Over Direction -- Do We Really Need a Second Gitmo? -- Homeschoolers Worldwide Join Forces -- UN Calls on Israel to Open Nuclear Program to Inspections -- Recycled Shipping Containers to Combat UK’s Homelessness Problem-- Hate All This Talk About Raising Tax Rates? Here Are 15 Countries with No Income Taxes Whatsoever -- Private Prison Company Muscles into Law Enforcement, Creating Occupants for Its Prisons -- iRobot Founder Now Building Tiny Hovering Drone Spies -- Tom DiLorenzo on Spielberg's Lincoln -- Disappearing Public Records (Quartzsite) - by Mike Palmer -- Banker Occupation: Waging Financial War on Humanity - by Stephen Lendman
AZ: Christmas Party at the Hancock's Saturday Dec 8th,
2012, 6:30 p.m. til ???; America's First Monument to the Bill
of Rights - Arizona Dedication Ceremony, Saturday
December 15th 10:00 am; 2012 Arizona Activist Awards,
Patriot Roast & Fundraiser Saturday December 15th 6:00 pm -
10:00 pm
Liberty Tour 2013 with Jordan Page and Oathkeepers
Scott Beiser needs his friends - Wife E.J. Passes
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Like Pinocchio, Your Nose Shows When You Lie
12-04-2012
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LiveScience
Much like Pinocchio, your nose could reveal that you're lying, though unlike the beloved character, your nose will heat up instead of growing longer when you tell a fib, new research claims.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
GOP leaders remove 4 from plum House committees
12-04-2012
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AP
House Speaker Boehner's decision to take plum committee assignments away from four conservative Republican lawmakers after they bucked party leaders on key votes isn't going over well with advocacy groups that viewed them as role models.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Philosophy: Socialism
Lest Darkness Triumph - by L. Neil Smith
12-04-2012
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by L. Neil Smith (The Libertarian Enterprise)
23 years ago, I wrote a novel that would eventually come to be called Forge of the Elders, in which I predicted that, in the aftermath of the collapse of the Soviet Empire the United States would embrace Marxism and drag the rest of the world with it
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
Senate passes $631 billion defense bill
12-04-2012
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AP
The Senate voted for a sweeping, $631 billion defense bill that calls for accelerating the withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan and tightens sanctions on Iran. The vote was 98-0. Would authorize money for weapons, aircraft and ships
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Bioterrorism
Chemtrails and Horizontal Gene Transfer " The GMO Connection
12-04-2012
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Farm Wars
The DNA of just about every living organism is being changed through horizontal gene transfer, courtesy of the biotechnology industry and geo-engineering.
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Reported by:
Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Humor
Fake dinosaur unleashed in ‘Jurassic Prank’ on unsuspecting passerby (VIDEO)
12-04-2012
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The Sideshow
[Holy crap! I would have to change my pants. Funny stuff!] How do you think you would react if a T. rex suddenly appeared, jumping out of hiding in your own neighborhood? That's a question a few dozen people in Columbus, Ohio, got close to
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Radio/TV Show • Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock - Radio
Host:
Ernest Hancock
12-05-12 -- Jordan Page - Michael Badnarik - (Video & MP3 Loaded)
Jordan Page (musician of the r3VOLution) talks about his work on a new album (with a more anarchist theme) and his upcoming military base tour - Michael Badnarik (author, teacher and constitutional scholar) on his new book 'Secret to Sovereignty' (av
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News Link • Activism
Liberty Tour 2013 with Jordan Page and Oathkeepers
12-04-2012
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Liberty Tour
What this tour seeks to accomplish is to provide a clear picture to our troops of what their oath to defend the constitution really means, and to empower them to do so through peaceful means.
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Reported by:
Donna Hancock
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News Link • Privacy Rights
The Fight Against the Total Surveillance State in Our Schools
12-04-2012
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Lewrockwell.com
The battle playing out in San Antonio, Texas, over one student’s refusal to comply with a public school campaign to microchip students has nothing to do with security concerns and even less to do with academic priorities
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News Link • Self-Defense
Lock Your Doors And Prepare To Defend Your Family
12-04-2012
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http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com, By Michael
Do you think that is an alarmist headline? Well, I am not the one saying this.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Privacy Rights
Deputy Police Chief Calls For “Permanent” DWI Checkpoints In Texas
12-04-2012
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Prison Planet
A deputy police chief in South Texas wants to set up “permanent” DWI checkpoints in order to “save lives,” raising the possibility that Texans could be forced to show their papers, submit to breathalyzer tests, or even be mandated to have blood drawn
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News Link • Obama Administration
MAKE DIPLOMACY, NOT WAR
12-04-2012
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http://ericmargolis.com, by Eric Margolis
The wicked 19th century American cynic Ambrose Bierce defined diplomacy in his “Devil’s Dictionary” as “the patriotic art of lying for one’s country.”
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gun Rights
Change on veterans’ gun rights lights fire
12-04-2012
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http://www.washingtontimes.com,
Coburn wants decisions by judge rather than VA for impaired troops
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gun Rights
Alex Jones Calls for Boycott of NFL, NBC and Bob Costas
12-04-2012
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Prison Planet
Within a day after Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher’s and his girlfriend’s deaths, the establishment launched a surprise attack on the right to bear arms and the Second Amendment.
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News Link • Egypt
Egypt's Mursi leaves palace as police battle protesters
12-04-2012
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reuters.com, By Yasmine Saleh and Marwa Awad
Egyptian police battled thousands of protesters outside President Mohamed Mursi's palace in Cairo on Tuesday, prompting the Islamist leader to leave the building, presidency sources said.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Egypt
Thousands ready to march on Egypt president palace
12-04-2012
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http://apnews.myway.com, By HAMZA HENDAWI
Thousands of Egyptians massed in Cairo Tuesday for a march to the presidential palace to protest the assumption by the nation's Islamist president of nearly unrestricted powers and a draft constitution hurriedly adopted by his allies.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • United Nations
UN internet regulation treaty talks begin in Dubai
12-04-2012
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http://www.bbc.co.uk, By Leo Kelion
A UN agency is trying to calm fears that the internet could be damaged by a conference it is hosting.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Obama Administration
MITCHELL: Obama making up drone rules as he goes
12-04-2012
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http://www.washingtontimes.com, By Allyson Mitchel
Americans need transparency of conventional warfare
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Constitution
Texas Threatens To Lock Up Advocates Of Obama’s Unconstitutional NDAA
12-04-2012
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Daily Paul.com
Written by Texas representative Lyle Larson, the Texas Liberty Preservation Act says that “…
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News Link • Surveillance
The Feds Want To Spy On Everything
12-04-2012
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http://reason.com, J.D. Tuccille
Government snoops are interested in reading more than just your email.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Afghanistan
US Ending the War in Afghanistan? It Depends on the Meaning of the Word ‘War’
12-04-2012
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http://www.commondreams.org, by Dave Lindorff
It is amazing to watch politicians trying to weasel their way around their promises. President Obama is providing us with a good illustration of the art.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Military
Bradley Manning: a tale of liberty lost in America
12-04-2012
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http://www.guardian.co.uk, Glenn Greenwald
Over the past two and a half years, all of which he has spent in a military prison, much has been said about Bradley Manning, but nothing has been heard from him.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Tea Party
Exclusive: Dick Armey Quits Tea Party Group in Split Over Direction
12-04-2012
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motherjones.com
In a move not publicly announced, former Rep. Dick Armey, the folksy conservative leader, has resigned as chairman of FreedomWorks, one of the main political outfits of the conservative movement and an instrumental force within the tea party.
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News Link • Military
Do We Really Need a Second Gitmo?
12-04-2012
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http://www.motherjones.com, By Adam Serwer
One Senate Republican likes Gitmo so much she wants to build a new offshore detention center"or at least force President Obama to allow Guantanamo to accept new detainees, which it hasn't done since he first took office and issued an executive order
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Robert Lee
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News Link • United Nations
UN Calls on Israel to Open Nuclear Program to Inspections
12-04-2012
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http://news.antiwar.com, by John Glaser
General Assembly overwhelmingly approved a resolution calling on Israel to join the NPT and allow IAEA inspectors
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Housing
Recycled Shipping Containers to Combat UK’s Homelessness Problem
12-04-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By Philippa Warr
Unused shipping containers from Amsterdam are to be recycled to create housing for homeless people in the English cities Brighton and Hove.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Constitution
5 years since I felt compelled to share my story here on the Daily Paul
12-04-2012
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Daily Paul.com
Wow time flies! A little over 5 years ago my then wife sat me down to watch a Ron Paul video, and I couldn't just tune out what I had heard and seen and continue the life path I was on then.
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
Smaug Alert: New Hobbit Preview Gives a Glimpse of Dragon
12-04-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By Hugh Hart
Blink and you’re out of luck, but sharp-eyed J.R.R. Tolkien freaks can catch a glimpse of Smaug in the new teasers hyping The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Hate All This Talk About Raising Tax Rates? Here Are 15 Countries with No Income Taxes Whatsoever
12-04-2012
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The Blaze
On the table in today’s political debate is the concept of raising taxes on some, or even all Americans (should the fiscal cliff kick in).
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News Link • Robots and Artificial Intelligence
iRobot Founder Now Building Tiny Hovering Drone Spies
12-04-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By Robert Beckhusen
Four years ago, iRobot co-founder Helen Greiner stepped down from the company she helped turn into an all-important supplier of the military’s growing arsenal of ground robots.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Corruption
Private Prison Company Muscles into Law Enforcement, Creating Occupants for Its Prisons
12-04-2012
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allgov.com
On Halloween morning this year, the 1,776 students at Vista Grande High School in Casa Grande, Arizona, were ordered on “lock down,” at the start of the first “drug sweep” in the school’s four-year history.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
3-D Printed Gun Only Lasts 6 Shots (Only?!)
12-04-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By Robert Beckhusen
A group of 3-D printing gunsmiths have taken another step toward making a gun you can download off the internet.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
NASA’s Giant New Rocket Goes Supersonic (In a Wind Tunnel)
12-04-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By Jason Paur
NASA has a big new rocket in the works, one designed to carry astronauts beyond earth orbit for the first time since the Saturn V took us to the moon.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
Tom DiLorenzo on Spielberg's Lincoln
12-04-2012
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Lewrockwell.com
I just created a playlist for Tom's talk in Orlando on the Lincoln movie, so you can watch the whole thing with just one click instead of having to watch three separate parts. It's below.
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News Link • Military
Navy Will Have to Wait Before Amassing Its Robo-Copter Fleet
12-04-2012
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www.wired.com, Noah Shachtman and Spencer Ackerman
The Navy talks about its drone helicopter the way Apple geeks gushed over the first-generation iPhone in 2007.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Future Predictions
Auto Industry’s Design Maestros Envision the Cop Cars of 2025
12-04-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By Damon Lavrinc
Forget black and white Crown Vics and battle-scarred Chargers.
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News Link • Just For Fun!
50 Stocking Stuffer Ideas for Men
12-04-2012
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http://lewrockwell.com, by Brett & Kate McKay
Every year since we started the site back in 2008, we’ve done an annual holiday gift guide, highlighting manly, useful, classic, and unique gifts an Art of Manliness man might want to find under the tree.
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News Link • Events: Arizona
Christmas Party at the Hancock's Saturday Dec 8th, 2012 6:30 p.m. til ???
11-27-2012
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www.meetup.com/RonPaulPhoenix
It's that time of year again for a holiday party - it has been a very busy year for all of us, so come and share in the fun and relaxation we all need - We will be raffling off a brand new Kindle Fire ($5/ticket) - Bring extra lawn chairs if you have
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Donna Hancock
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Opinion • Libya
Ray McGovern: My Take
Why to Say No to Susan Rice
12-03-2012
Ray McGovern
Key Republicans object to Susan Rice getting a promotion from UN ambassador to Secretary of State, citing her flawed account of the Benghazi assault. But a more legitimate concern is her lack of judgment on the Iraq War and other foreign policy decis
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News Link • Police State
NYT Op-ed Video: NSA Whistleblower Tells All
12-03-2012
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http://www.dailypaul.com
The filmmaker Laura Poitras profiles William Binney, a 32-year veteran of the National Security Agency who helped design a top-secret program he says is broadly collecting Americans' personal data. A vote of it is supposed to happen this month (Decem
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • History
US government releases once-secret Watergate files
12-02-2012
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AP
Watergate Judge Sirica aided the prosecution in pursuing the White House connection to the Democratic headquarters break-in by providing the special prosecutor information from a probation report in which one of the burglars said he was acting
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News Link • Syria
Flow of Arms to Syria Through Iraq Persists, to U.S. Dismay
12-02-2012
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New York Times
The American effort to stem the flow of Iranian arms to Syria has faltered because of Iraq’s reluctance to inspect aircraft carrying the weapons through its airspace, American officials say.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Afghanistan
Attackers at U.S.-Afghan Base Wore Coalition Uniforms
12-02-2012
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New York Times
Taliban forces attacked a large coalition airfield in eastern Afghanistan early Sunday, detonating three car bombs near the entrance and engaging in a two-hour gun battle that killed nine insurgents, four Afghan guards and at least four civilians who
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