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Date Sent: 2013-03-19
Freedom's Phoenix PM Edition for Tuesday, March 19, 2013 |
New Zealand planning Cyprus-style looting of bank accounts -- Sibel Edmonds: Who's At The Top
German Bankers Generously Offer Cypriots Helping Hand If They Transfer Deposits -- Cyprus Parliament Rejects European Bailout Proposal: Calls Germany's Bluff -- Europe's Final Gambit: 20%-30% Haircut For Oligarchs To Force A Russian Bailout --
Escalating Syria's War -- When Is Insurance a Good Investment? -- The
defense of freedom begins in the military -- Paul Spells Out His
Plan for Immigration Overhaul -- Blast at Nevada military site kills
seven Marines, hurts seven -- DHS insider update: “It has begun” --
03-19-13 -- Saul Landau - Mikey Weinstein - Peymon Mottahedeh -
LISTEN LIVE on LRN.FM, 9-Noon EST -- Autonomous Cars Patrol
Israeli Border -- Lawrence Wilkerson, Former Chief of Staff to
Sec. of State Colin Powell, Joins MRFF Advisory Board -- Anti-Drone
Devices for Sale: Military Contractor Claims To Have Counter-UAV
Technology -- Taking Money From Ordinary Cyprus Savers Is Sheer
Madness – Euro Chiefs Will Rue This Outrage -- MEREDITH
WHITNEY: I Have Not Been This Bullish On The US And Equities In My
Career -- George Will: ‘What I did see at CPAC was the rise of
the libertarian strand of Republicanism -- Special Report - EU
Steals Nation's Private Bank Accounts: Starts EU Wide Bank Runs -- The Attacks Begin: National Jewish Democratic Council Denounces
Rand Paul's CPAC Straw Poll Victory -- Hilarious: How Not to Talk to
People About Liberty -- Iraq, Ten Years Later: What About the
Constitution? -- Man Detained by City & State Police While
Open-Carrying -- My Lai 45 Years Later—And the Unknown
Atrocities of Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan -- 9/11 and Iraq: The
War’s Greatest Lie -- Bloomberg wants to ban tobacco on display -- Scientology leader's niece reveals Church secrets --
Remembering Rachel Corrie
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News Link • Economy - International
New Zealand planning Cyprus-style looting of bank accounts
03-19-2013
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The National Government are pushing a Cyprus-style solution to bank failure in New Zealand which will see small depositors lose some of their savings to fund big bank bailouts, the Green Party said. Open Bank Resolution is the favored option
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Sibel Edmonds Explains Who's At The Top Of The Pyramid
03-19-2013
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Daily Paul.com
In this sixth part of the ongoing Sibel Edmonds Gladio B conversation, we ask the question: Who is at the top of the pyramid. We look beyond the usual suspects and follow the money back to the industries and lobbies whose existence .....
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News Link • Economy - International
German Bankers Generously Offer Cypriots Helping Hand If They Transfer Deposits
03-19-2013
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www.zerohedge.com
For a mere 0.95% handling fee, the friendly German bankers are offering Cypriot depositors the opportunity to "take fast action and secure their deposits"
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - International
Cyprus Parliament Rejects European Bailout Proposal: Calls Germany's Bluff
03-19-2013
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www.zerohedge.com
Just as we predicted yesterday, the Cyprus bailout vote has not passed parliament in a move that was merely there to force Germany's bluff.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - International
Europe's Final Gambit: 20%-30% Haircut For Oligarchs To Force A Russian Bailout
03-19-2013
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www.zerohedge.com
...the ongoing discussion in Cyprus' government will see a "no" vote as the WSJ is reporting a rather stunning gamble by the Cypriots (and by Cypriots we mean European leaders) to force the Russians to bear the brunt of the cost of the bailout.
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Ernest Hancock
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Feature Article • Humor
Sex for Ammo
Ernest Hancock
On the way, I stopped at the gas station, and this drop-dead-gorgeous blond was filling up her car at the next pump.”
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
DHS insider update: “It has begun”
03-18-2013
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By Douglas J. Hagmann
Our current financial situation was not bred out of incompetence, but by design.
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Terry Major
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News Link • Archaeology
Antiquity of Peruvian Maize
03-19-2013
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arclein
After years of study, Haas and his colleagues have concluded that during the Late Archaic, maize (Zea mays, or corn) was indeed a primary component in the diet of people living in the Norte Chico region of Peru, an area of remarkable cultural floresc
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robert klein
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News Link • Energy
Aussi Oil Giant Discovered
03-19-2013
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arclein
he "top" numbers quoted by Linc Energy's two consultants on the project, 1-DeGolyer and MacNaughton and 2-Gustavson Associates, LLC range from 103 to 233 billion barrels of oil or almost 20 $Trillion in today's dollars. Since the discovery, Linc
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robert klein
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News Link • China
Confronting Drone Swarms
03-19-2013
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arclein
Chinese military drones have already entered the frontlines of China's territorial disputes with neighboring countries such as Japan by flying maritime patrols over disputed areas. The Project 2049 Institute report warned that China could be tempted
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News Link • Economy - International
Cyprus Haircut
03-19-2013
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arclein
According to multiple reports, Germany basically said to Cyprus: Tax your depositors, or you can leave the Eurozone. We're not just writing going to write a big check this time, because you're too small to really matter.
On the one hand you migh
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robert klein
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News Link • Syria
Syria: regime accuses rebels of killing 25 in chemical weapons attack
03-19-2013
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Daily Telegraph
Residents of an area that has been reportedly targeted with chemical weapons in Syria were said to be showing symptoms including breathing difficulties in an incident that could cross US "red lines" on intervention in the conflict.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Military
'Jesus loves nukes': US Air Force taught the Christian Just War Theory
03-19-2013
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www.telegraph.co.uk
To the men and women burdened with the ultimate responsibility of launching America’s nuclear missiles it was known as the “Jesus loves nukes” lesson.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Military
The defence of freedom begins in the military
03-19-2013
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Al Jazeera
The United States Air Force Academy has been pushing its Dominionist Christian beliefs onto its personnel
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Immigration
Paul Spells Out His Plan for Immigration Overhaul
03-19-2013
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nytimes.com
In a speech before the United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday, Senator Rand Paul detailed his position on immigration, including an implicit pathway to citizenship, contingent on border security, for illegal immigrants already in the c
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News Link • Military
Blast at Nevada military site kills seven Marines, hurts seven
03-19-2013
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Reuters
Seven U.S. Marines were killed and seven others injured during a training exercise at a military ammunition storage facility in western Nevada, U.S. military officials said Tuesday.
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News Link • Internet
Google Is Reportedly Putting All Its Chat Platforms Under One Product Called Babble
03-19-2013
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Business Insider
There are rumors currently swirling about "Babble," a codename for Google's new unified chat experience.
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News Link • Humor
Selena Gomez And David Letterman Joke They've Both Made Justin Bieber Cry
03-19-2013
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Business Insider
Selena Gomez appeared on the "Late Show with David Letterman" Monday night to promote her latest film "Spring Breakers."
But the bit that got everyone talking was when she confirmed "I'm single ... I'm so good," after an on-again, off-again relation
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News Link • Entertainment: Sports
Controversial Call At The End Of The Bulls-Nuggets Game Opens A Real Can Of Worms
03-19-2013
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Business Insider
The Bulls lost to the Nuggets 119-118 in overtime last night after a potentially game-winning Joakim Noah tip-in with 1.7 seconds left was ruled offensive goaltending.
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News Link • Israel
Autonomous Cars Patrol Israeli Border
03-19-2013
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http://www.technewsdaily.com, Douglas Main
Along Israel's borders, a small number of automobiles patrol the area for signs of intruders. But unlike most vehicles, these cars have no drivers, and " for the most part "drive themselves.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Military
Lawrence Wilkerson, Former Chief of Staff to Sec. of State Colin Powell, Joins MRFF Advisory Board
03-19-2013
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MRFF
Far more serious for the health of America's Armed Forces are two issues ripping at their very soul: sexual assault and the lack of religious freedom. Besides breaking the law, the first destroys irreparably the bond so important to military servicem
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Artificial Biofilm Helps Heal Eyes
03-19-2013
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http://www.technewsdaily.com, by Marshall Honorof
Due to the complexity of animal vision " and mammalian vision in particular " repairing damaged eyes is one of the most challenging aspects of modern medicine.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Cyprus deal shock sends shares tumbling, gold up
03-19-2013
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http://finance.yahoo.com, By Marc Jones
The surprise decision by euro zone leaders to part-fund a bailout of Cyprus by taxing bank deposits sent shockwaves through financial markets on Monday, with shares and the bonds of struggling euro zone governments tumbling.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Drones
Anti-Drone Devices for Sale: Military Contractor Claims To Have Counter-UAV Technology
03-19-2013
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http://lewrockwell.com, Russia Today
Domestic drones will soon be soaring through the sky left and right, but a company in Oregon with ties to the US military is marketing a service that they say will make sure private property is safe from surveillance.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Energy
Watch How a Solar Panel Could Repel Dust
03-19-2013
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technewsdaily.com
This video shows how an electric field created by small wires repels dust, which could help keep solar panels clean.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - International
Taking Money From Ordinary Cyprus Savers Is Sheer Madness " Euro Chiefs Will Rue This Outrage
03-19-2013
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk, By Simon Watkins
The eurozone staggers from crisis to crisis and bailout to bailout. But this time the finance ministers of the single currency nations have crossed the Rubicon.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
MEREDITH WHITNEY: I Have Not Been This Bullish On The US And Equities In My Career
03-19-2013
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Business Insider
Meredith Whitney was just on CNBC's Closing Bell with Maria Bartiromo and the normally skeptical bank analyst came out as a super-bull for the U.S. economy and equities.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Pew Pew! Scientists Build Lasers Out of Sound, Call Them Phasers
03-19-2013
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http://www.wired.com, By Adam Mann
Using a nanoscale drum, scientists have built a laser that uses sound waves instead of light like a conventional laser.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Animals and Pets
Scientists Want To Bring 24 Animals Back From Extinction
03-19-2013
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Business Insider
On Friday at a National Geographic sponsored TEDx conference, scientists met in Washington, D.C. to discuss which animals we should bring back from extinction
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Philosophy: Libertarianism
George Will: ‘What I did see at CPAC was the rise of the libertarian strand of Republicanism
03-19-2013
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Daily Paul.com
“... What I did see at CPAC was the rise of the libertarian strand of Republicanism, which has an affected foreign policy that is a pullback from nation-building and other ambitions aboard that they never countenance from government at home, ....
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Robert Lee
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News Link • European Union
Special Report - EU Steals Nations Private Bank Accounts: Starts EU Wide Bank Runs
03-19-2013
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Daily Paul.com
EU Steals Nations Private Bank Accounts: Starts EU Wide Bank Runs
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Just For Fun!
Slow-Motion Video Of A Bridge Exploding Is The Best Way To Start The Week
03-19-2013
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http://www.popsci.com, By Martha Harbison
Just sit back and enjoy the carnage.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Humor
Hilarious: How Not to Talk to People About Liberty.
03-19-2013
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Daily Paul.com
This week, we explain what NOT to do when talking to people about liberty... with special guest, Libertarian Girl!
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News Link • Iraq
Iraq, Ten Years Later: What About the Constitution?
03-19-2013
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http://www.newyorker.com, Seymour M. Hersh
In a few days, we will have a new anniversary to celebrate, or to mourn. The bombing of Baghdad ten years ago this week marked the beginning of another senseless American war fought for reasons that turned out not to exist, driven by wrongheaded, coc
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gun Rights
Man Detained by City & State Police While Open-Carrying
03-19-2013
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Daily Paul.com
Was burning some time on a walk in Washington. As usual I was openly carrying my Springfield Armory XD(M) .40 compact in my Blackhawk level III Serpa duty holster. I had a scary encounter with a state patrolman named Gibson.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
My Lai 45 Years Later"And the Unknown Atrocities of Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan
03-19-2013
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http://www.thedailybeast.com
On the anniversary of the infamous My Lai massacre, Nick Turse recalls the numerous, less-well-known atrocities that marked the Vietnam War, and asks which atrocities from Iraq and Afghanistan we will be remembering in 45 years.
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
GOP Chairman Reince Priebus says "lousy job of branding,"
03-19-2013
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cbsnews.com
It's the age old question: "What went wrong?" How did the Republican Party lose a presidential election against a weak incumbent with a bad economy, and lost seats in both the House and the Senate, only two years after its historic gains in the 2010
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News Link • Bush Administration
9/11 and Iraq: The War’s Greatest Lie
03-19-2013
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http://antiwar.com, John Glaser
The Bush administration’s primary justification for launching the Iraq War is thought, probably correctly, to be an alleged WMD program that did not exist.
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News Link • Government
Bloomberg wants to ban tobacco on display
03-19-2013
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http://www.myfoxny.com,
A new proposal would require New York City retailers to keep tobacco products out of sight under a first-in-the-nation proposal aimed at reducing the youth smoking rate, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Monday.
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News Link • Religion: Believers
Scientology leader's niece reveals Church secrets
03-19-2013
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http://www.france24.com, AFP
The Church of Scientology has lashed out at a new book by its leader's niece, which recounts a stolen childhood and how she was brainwashed and cut off from her family before eventually escaping.
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News Link • Secret Societies
GLPVCs TheRawFeedLive Presents - Fritz Springmeier Tuesday Mar 18th @11pm est Listen Live
03/19/2013
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http://godlikeproductions.com
Fritz Springmeier is a well-known author who has written among other things a series of 7 books on the Illuminati, three of which dealt with trauma-based mind control. Hearing a call on his life to be a watchman, he left the Amish to step back into t
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News Link • Economy - International
Banking Chief Calls For 15% Looting of Italians’ Savings
03-18-2013
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InfoWars
The International Monetary Fund initially demanded to loot a shocking 40% of savings from the private bank accounts of Cypriots underscores how residents of the Mediterranean country could be the latest victims of the infamous “IMF riot,”
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Opinion • Iraq
Ray McGovern: My Take
A Last-Second Appeal for Sanity
03-18-2013
Ray McGovern
Ten years ago, the U.S. invasion of Iraq was only hours away, but the case for this unprovoked war was already falling apart with exposure of hyperbole, half-truths and even a forgery. On March 18, 2003, a group of U.S. intelligence veterans pleaded
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
GOLDMAN: Now Everyone With Deposits In Euro Zone Banks Has To Worry About A New Wealth Tax
03-18-2013
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Business Insider
The Cyprus bailout deal has a lot of people scratching their heads over what EU leaders were thinking when they came up with it.
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News Link • Congress-Congressmen
Anti-marijuana New York assemblyman busted for weed possession
03-17-2013
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Rawstory
A Republican lawmaker in New York who has a record of voting against medical marijuana legalization has been arrested and charged with possession of marijuana.
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News Link • Police State
Rounding Up U.S. Citizens
03-17-2013
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CounterPunch
Anyone who donates money to a charity that turns up on Bush’s list of "terrorist" organizations, or who speaks out against the government’s policies could be declared an "unlawful enemy combatant" and imprisoned indefinitely. That includes American c
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News Link • Afghanistan
Deal likely to keep U.S. elite forces in key Afghan province: official
03-17-2013
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Reuters
Afghan and U.S. officials are working on a compromise deal to allow American special forces to stay in a strategically key province near the capital in return for full Afghan control of a controversial jail, a top Kabul official said.
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News Link • Police State
Trial over NYPD stop-and-frisk tactic set to begin
03-17-2013
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AP
The New York Police Department's practice of stopping, questioning and frisking people on the street is facing its biggest legal challenge this week with a federal civil rights trial on whether the tactic unfairly targets minorities.
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News Link • European Union
JPMORGAN: Europe May Have Just 'Bazookaed Itself In The Foot'
03-17-2013
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Business Insider
One of the biggest problems presented by the euro crisis has been the financial connection between the banks and their governments.
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News Link • Economy - International
Europe Just Broke The 'Cardinal Rule' With The Bailout Of Cyprus
03-17-2013
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Business Insider
The talk everywhere right now is about Cyprus, and the controversial bailout package that was agreed to in the early hours of Saturday morning.
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News Link • Political Parties
The GOP on Foreign Policy: Rhetoric v. Reality
03-17-2013
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com,
As thousands of young true believers gather this weekend for the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), the Republican Party and the broader conservative movement continue to operate on a fundamental contradiction.
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News Link • Activism
Honouring Rachel Corrie, 10 years on
03-17-2013
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http://www.aljazeera.com, Andy Beale
US peace activist was killed by Israeli bulldozer in Gaza as she tried to block the demolition of a Palestinian home.
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
CIA begins sizing up Islamic extremists in Syria for drone strikes
03-17-2013
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Ken Dilanian and Brian Bennett, Los Angeles Times
The strategy is part of the agency's secret contingency planning to protect the U.S. and its allies as the violence there grows. Some militants in Syria are seen as closely linked to Al Qaeda.
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