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Date Sent: 2013-06-23
Freedom's Phoenix Edition for Sunday, June 23, 2013 |
US secretly training Syrian rebels for many months -- Snowden departed for a ‘third country’
Obama to take sweeping action on climate -- Welcome, baseball fan. Go directly to jail -- Doctors make progress toward 'artificial pancreas' -- Freedom's
Phoenix at Porcfest X - pictures from Roger's Campground in Lancaster,
NH -- Silver Circle needs you now more than ever -- Obama: The Worst of Nixon/Bush Writ Large -- American Slacktivist -- 4409: Obama RAPED and EXPOSED
in the IRISH Parliament by Clare Daly -- Government Snooping -- Video: Official Says
Complaining About Tap Water is Act of Terrorism -- IRS Sent
$46,378,040 in Refunds to 23,994 ‘Unauthorized’ Aliens at 1 Atlanta
Address -- Ben Swann: NSA’s Criminal Activity (Video) -- ‘Insider
Threat’ program forces federal employees to spy on coworkers --
Judge: No audio testimony in Zimmerman trial -- British spy agency
sharing worldwide phone, Internet records with NSA -- Five Reasons
Why You Love Sustainable Architecture -- Adobe's Piracy-Proof
Software Already Pirated -- Last UFO Files from UK Gov't Released -- 'Supermoon' Rising: How to Photograph This Weekend's Full Moon --
ARE FORGED DOCUMENTS AN ACCEPTABLE SHORTCUT? -- General Wesley
Clark: Whistleblower, Warrior -- Another Israeli War Criminal of the
Year Award
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News Link • Syria
US secretly training Syrian rebels for months; White House 'stepped up assistance'
06-23-2013
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Los Angeles Times
CIA operatives and U.S. special operations troops have been secretly training Syrian rebels with anti-tank and anti-aircraft weapons since late last year, saying only that the U.S. had increased its assistance to the rebellion.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Surveillance
Snowden departed Hong Kong for a ‘third country,’ government says
06-23-2013
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Jia Lynn Yang, Kathy Lally, Washington Post
HONG KONG--Edward Snowden, the former contractor who leaked top-secret documents about about U.S. surveillance programs, has left Hong Kong “on his own accord for a third country,” the government here said Sunday afternoon.
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Environment
Obama to take sweeping action on climate
06-23-2013
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Washington Post
President Obama will limit greenhouse gas emissions from existing power plants, increase appliance efficiency standards and promote renewable energy development on public lands using executive powers to address climate change.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Government
Welcome, baseball fan. Go directly to jail.
06-23-2013
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Washington Post
They take law and order Very Seriously in Washington, DC. Oh, sure, there is murder, drugs and prostitution (and solicitation, but more on that later), but those crimes are a byproduct of any large metropolitan area, and, well, folks will be folks.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Doctors make progress toward 'artificial pancreas'
06-23-2013
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AP
Doctors are reporting a major step toward an "artificial pancreas," a device that would constantly monitor blood sugar in people with diabetes and automatically supply insulin as needed.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Activism
American Slacktivist
06-21-2013
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# The Soapbox
"they can protest all they want so long as they pay their taxes" -Alexander Haig
In the past I've written about tyranny, agenda 21, plum island, drones, and indoctrination of our young. I have covered events like Occupy Phoenix, Tea Party ralli
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Doc Medina
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Supermoon tonight
06-22-2013
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Full moon falls on June 23, 2013 at 11:32 UTC (6:32 a.m. CDT in the U.S.). Thus, for many, the moon appears about as full in the June 22 evening sky as it does on the evening of June 23. This full moon is not only the closest and largest
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Agriculture
Blueberries Expressing Viagra?
06-22-2013
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arclein
There will be do-it-yourself kits for gardeners who will use genetic engineering to breed new varieties of roses and orchids. Also kits for lovers of pigeons and parrots and lizards and snakes to breed new varieties of pets. Breeders of dogs and cats
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robert klein
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News Link • Government
Government Snooping
06-22-2013
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arclein
After the government relaxed the rules about the type of information they could make public, Microsoft and Facebook released data combining national security requests and criminal investigations. But Google and Twitter have so far declined to do so u
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robert klein
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News Link • Police State
Video: Official Says Complaining About Tap Water is Act of Terrorism
06-22-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Concerned about the high levels of arsenic in your water, or perhaps the known levels of radioactive contamination? Well you must be a terrorist, according to the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation (TDEC) and Homeland Security, who
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Immigration
IRS Sent $46,378,040 in Refunds to 23,994 ‘Unauthorized’ Aliens at 1 Atlanta Address
06-22-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
(CNSNews.com) " The Internal Revenue Service sent 23,994 tax refunds worth a combined $46,378,040 to “unauthorized” alien workers who all used the same address in Atlanta, Ga., in 2011, according to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administrati
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Surveillance
Ben Swann " NSA’s Criminal Activity (Video)
06-22-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Ben Swann Full Disclosure is asking the questions the rest of the media is ignoring. Even by the overreaching standards of the Patriot Act, Ben Swann demonstrates how the NSA’s Prism program is clearly illegal.
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Surveillance
‘Insider Threat’ program forces federal employees to spy on coworkers
06-22-2013
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PressTV
The program spans all federal agencies and mandates employees and their superiors to report behaviors associated with someone who might leak sensitive government information.
Those who fail to expose “high-risk persons” face penalties that include c
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Judge: No audio testimony in Zimmerman trial
06-22-2013
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AP
The judge in the murder trial of George Zimmerman said Friday that prosecution audio experts who point to Trayvon Martin as screaming on a 911 calls moments before he was killed won't be allowed to testify at trial.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Surveillance
British spy agency sharing worldwide phone, Internet records with NSA
06-21-2013
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Lindsey Boerma, CBS News
Britain's spy agency GCHQ has surreptitiously tapped into vast volumes of data drawn from the fiber-optic cables that carry the world's phone calls and Internet traffic, and is sharing with its U.S. counterpart - the National Security Agency (NSA) -
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • How To
'Supermoon' Rising: How to Photograph This Weekend's Full Moon
06-22-2013
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space.com
The largest full moon of the year will rise this weekend, and for any shutterbugs hoping to snap photos of the so-called "supermoon," following some easy guidelines can help people make the most of their moon shots.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • MEDIA NEWS REFERENCES
ARE FORGED DOCUMENTS AN ACCEPTABLE SHORTCUT?
06/22/13
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ABC 15 News
The ABC15 Investigators sat down with Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne to find out.
ARE FORGED DOCUMENTS AN ACCEPTABLE SHORTCUT?
We were surprised to hear Horne characterize the use of forged documents as a “shortcut."
“Maybe a document
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Mike Brosnahan
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Opinion • Humor
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News, June 23, 2013 Edition
06-21-2013
John Semmens
Congressman Demands “More Balanced” Campaign against Terrorism
Representative Jim McDermott (D-Wash) directed pointed criticism at the FBI's focus on Islamic terrorists. His criticism was sparked by a bus ad that featured photos of 16 suspected te
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News Link • Privacy Rights
NSA uses 'terrorism' to justify mass surveillance that started long before 9/11 and the Patr
06-20-2013
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By Joel Dyer, David Accomazzo and Jefferson Dodge
Should we now trust the NSA not to illegally monitor environmental activists or Tea Party adherents or labor organizations? How can we trust an agency or a government that is still trying to claim that it didn’t get into the domestic phone call monit
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Philosophy: Fascism
Understanding the latest leaks is understanding the rise of a new fascism
06-20-2013
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John Pilger
Obama, like George W Bush, understands that his role is not to indulge those who voted for him but to expand "the most powerful institution in the history of the world, one that has killed, wounded or made homeless well over 20 million human beings,
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Homeland Security
Welcome To The Police Industrial Complex
06-20-2013
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by Radley Balko (Huffington Post)
Want to make money on the drug war? Start a company that builds military equipment, then sell that gear to local police departments. Thanks to the generation-long trend toward more militarized police forces, there's now massive
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
50 More Reasons To Advance The Total Surveillance State?
06-20-2013
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Dollar Vigilante
"Our total and unrestricted spying on you has saved your lives."
That's not exactly what General Keith Alexander said to the American public before a "largely friendly" House committee, but it is certainly what he meant.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TERRORISM
Guantanamo detainee describes 'ordeal' of force feeding
06-20-2013
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BBC News
A prisoner currently on hunger strike in Guantanamo Bay has described the pain and discomfort of the force feeding regime at the jail. Algerian detainee Ahmed Belbacha, in testimony given to the BBC, said the process "hurts a great deal" and many pri
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
What the NSA Revelations Tell Us about America's Police State
06-20-2013
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Ongoing revelations by The Guardian and The Washington Post of massive, illegal secret state surveillance of the American people along with advanced plans for waging offensive cyberwarfare on a global scale, including inside the US
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Activism
Ten Rules for Recording Cops and other Authority Figures (Citizen Journalism 101)
06-20-2013
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Photography Is Not a Crime
I also have a book coming out next year on citizen journalism in the hopes of educating, encouraging and inspiring citizens to become part of the Fifth Estate, which is journalism of the people, by the people and for the people.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Wearing a mask at a riot is now a crime
06-20-2013
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A bill that bans the wearing of masks during a riot or unlawful assembly and carries a maximum 10-year prison sentence with a conviction of the offense became law today.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
US stock markets slump after Bernanke drops hint on ending stimulus
06-20-2013
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The Guardian
US stock markets plummeted amid fears that the Federal Reserve was preparing to scale back its $85bn-a-month stimulus program. The Dow closed down 353.95 points at 14758.24, a 2.34% drop and the index's worst fall so far this year.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drones
FBI has received aviation clearance for at least four domestic drone operations
06-20-2013
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Washington Post
The FBI has received clearance from federal aviation officials to conduct drone surveillance operations in the United States on at least four occasions since 2010, according to public records and U.S. officials.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Surveillance
Revealed: the top secret rules that allow NSA to use US data without a warrant
06-20-2013
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The Guardian
Top secret documents submitted to the court that oversees surveillance by US intelligence agencies show judges have signed off on broad orders allowing the NSA to make use of information "inadvertently" collected without a warrant.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Syria
In Syrian chemical weapons claim, criticism about lack of transparency
06-20-2013
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Washington Post
Despite months of laboratory testing and scrutiny by top U.S. scientists, the Obama administration’s case for arming Syria’s rebels rests on unverifiable claims that the Syrian government used chemical weapons against its own people
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • United Nations
Citizens for Liberty 19 June 2013 Meeting - Movie Night - The UN Deception
06-19-2013
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The International Libertarian
At their June 19, 2013 meeting in Norristown, PA Citizens for Liberty screened the film The UN Deception (http://youtu.be/ia8cCazkdvg). This was followed by an open discussion. I brought an old tradition to the meeting. At the Libertarian Party of Pe
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Darren Wolfe
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News Link • Corruption
Many Of The Largest Charities In America Are Giant Money Making Scams
06-20-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
How would you feel if you donated money to help disaster victims or cancer patients and you later found out that more than 97 percent of the money that you gave never got into the hands of the people that needed it? Sadly, that is happening all over
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Chris Menke
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News Link • TAXES: Internet
Glenn Jacobs discusses Austrian Economics, Internet Sales Tax, & the Federal Reserve
06/15/13
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http://www.youtube.com
WWE wrestler, Glenn Jacobs, discusses Austrian Economics, Internet Sales Tax, & the Federal Reserve. This video documentation was captured during a TN Campaign for Liberty event on June 13, 2013.
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Daniel Lewis
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News Link • New World Order
Corporations Push to Overrule National Laws - Secret Treaty
06-20-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
First Congress Member Allowed to Read Secret Treaty Says “There Is No National Security Purpose In Keeping This Text Secret … This Agreement Hands The Sovereignty of Our Country Over to Corporate Interests”
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Surveillance
Big Brother alert: Cameras in the cable box to monitor TV viewers
06-20-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
It hardly gets more Orwellian than this. New technology would allow cable companies to peer directly into television watchers’ homes and monitor viewing habits and reactions to product advertisements.
The technology would come via the cable box, a
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Communications
In Historic Victory for Community Radio, FCC Puts 1,000 Low-Power FM Frequencies Up For Grabs
06-20-2013
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http://www.democracynow.org
In a major victory for the community radio movement after a 15-year campaign, the Federal Communications Commission has announced it will soon begin accepting applications for hundreds of new low-power FM radio stations in October.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Housing
Paul Pholeros: How to reduce poverty? Fix homes
06-20-2013
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ted.com
In 1985, architect Paul Pholeros was challenged by the director of an Aboriginal-controlled health service to "stop people getting sick" in a small indigenous community in south Australia. The key insights: think beyond medicine and fix the local env
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gold and Silver
After the Gold Rush?
06-20-2013
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arclein
First, gold prices tend to spike when there are serious economic, financial, and geopolitical risks in the global economy. During the global financial crisis, even the safety of bank deposits and government bonds was in doubt for some investors. If y
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robert klein
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News Link • Economy - International
Chinese, U.S. factories struggle, Europe still in slump
06-20-2013
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By Jonathan Cable and Steven C. Johnson
Factory output in China weakened to a nine-month low in June while U.S. manufacturing closed out its worst quarter in the last four, suggesting the road to recovery for the world economy remained an uneven one.
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Head of revived watchdog pledges open look at U.S. surveillance
06-20-2013
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http://www.reuters.com, By Alina Selyukh
The head of a newly revived federal privacy oversight board pledged on Wednesday to be "as transparent and public as possible" as the board reviews recently exposed U.S. government secret surveillance programs.
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