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Date Sent: 2012-04-06
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, April 6, 2012 PM edition |
Has China ALREADY Surpassed the U.S. as the World’s Largest Economy?
The “Shadow Pharmaceutical” Sector -- Misguided Faith in an Economic Recovery --
Is Traditional Media Dying? The Numbers Indicate Just That -- Organic
Food Industry Bought Up by Corporations Like Coca-Cola -- Pentagon eyes 'human like' handyman robots: But why? -- US attacks Japanese ship and sinks it with cannon fire (VIDEO, PHOTOS) -- Second day of clashes in Athens after pensioner’s suicide (PHOTOS, VIDEO) -- UN looks for ‘broader mandate’ to monitor Syrian ceasefire -- Make Your Own Dime Cards... -- Hutaree Militiamen Cleared In Court - by Chuck Baldwin -- 04-06-12 -- Ross Edwards, Alex Victorio In Studio - LISTEN LIVE on LRN.FM, M-F, 9-Noon (EST) -- HAVE a BLESSED
GOOD FRIDAY! IT was GOOD because CHRIST had to die for OUR SINS! -- Military board says Marine should be dismissed -- Half a million Mac computers 'infected with malware' -- Twitter, the FBI, and You -- Ammonia used in many foods, not just "pink slime" -- Three plead guilty in botched "Fast and Furious" gun-running sting -- Why We Should End Handouts to Oil and Gas Companies -- Posters: 180 Years of American Campaign Propaganda -- 'Complete Lawlessness' at Orleans Parish Prison -- How Romney Fibs—and Gets Away With It -- From the Cold War to NATO's "Humanitarian Wars" - The Complicity of the United Nations -- US-Israel War on Iran : The Myth of Limited Warfare -- Putting A Face On the Statistics in Mexico's (Otherwise Unsuccessful) War on Drugs -- Not A Unique Day: Skunk Truck, Sound Bomb, Rubber-Coated Bullets -- New Fukushima Leak Seeps More Radiation into Pacific -- The Best Congress the Banks’ Money Can Buy -- Obama Signs "Fraud-Friendly" JOBS Act into Law -- Despairing Greek Leftist Makes Final Stand --
USGS: Recent Earthquakes 'Almost Certainly Manmade' -- Draconian
Cybersecurity Bills -- The Pain in Spain -- Weather Records Due to
Climate Change -- One More OJ Plot Twist
AZ: AZ Breakfast Club, this Sat-April 7th, 2012
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News Link • China
Has China ALREADY Surpassed the U.S. as the World’s Largest Economy?
04-06-2012
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http://www.globalresearch.ca, by Washington's
While the IMF forecasts that China will surpass America as the world’s top economy in 2016, it may have already become dog top.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
The “Shadow Pharmaceutical” Sector
04-06-2012
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http://dailyreckoning.com, By Patrick Cox
The business of medical biotechnologies operates within an extraordinarily complex regulatory system.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Dollar Meltdown The
Misguided Faith in an Economic Recovery
04-06-2012
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http://dailyreckoning.com, By Joel Bowman
We watched last night the rows of cars below our balcony, snaking their way out of the pollution and congestion of South America’s second largest metropolis, out into the peace and calm of the surrounding campos and estancias.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Art
Art Heals You
04-06-2012
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http://wakeup-world.com, By Kara Rane
I was the owner of a beach-side eatery. Children would naturally gather around while I was outdoors painting murals and signs
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Food
Organic Food Industry Bought Up by Corporations Like Coca-Cola
04-06-2012
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http://wakeup-world.com, By Anthony Gucciardi
You may be wondering why some supposedly ‘healthy’ and ‘environmentally conscious’ companies deceive unknowing consumers into purchasing products with hidden additives and fillers.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Military
Pentagon eyes 'human like' handyman robots: But why?
04-06-2012
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http://rt.com
A US military agency is to announce Grand Challenge for a new generation of humanoid robots to add it to the country’s military arsenal.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Japan - Earthquake Tsunami Radiation
‘Flying Japanese’: US destroys tsunami ‘ghost ship’ with cannon fire (VIDEO, PHOTOS)
04-06-2012
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http://rt.com
The US Coast Guard has opened fire to sink the Japanese “ghost ship” cast adrift by last year's massive tsunami, which was approaching the shores of Alaska.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Activism
Second day of clashes in Athens after pensioner’s suicide (PHOTOS, VIDEO)
04-06-2012
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http://rt.com
Demonstrators have clashed with police in the Greek capital for a second day following the suicide of an elderly man.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • United Nations
UN looks for ‘broader mandate’ to monitor Syrian ceasefire
04-06-2012
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http://rt.com
The violence in Syria cannot be averted by means of traditional observers, believes UN and Arab League envoy Kofi Annan.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Wallet Voting
New DTOM Radio ads by talk radio host Stephanie Murphy
04-06-2012
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http://donttreadonmeme.com
Radio talk show host Stephanie Murphy has recorded two new commercials for Don’t Tread On Meme. They can be heard in rotation on the Liberty Radio Network (LRN.fm) and during Stephanie’s live Friday night show Porc Therapy.
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Drew
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News Link • Activism
Make Your Own Dime Cards...
04-06-2012
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www.freedomsphoenix.com
Links to laminators, laminator pockets,, front and back templates (photoshop and PDF files)
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Our Comic is Nearing its End. Time to Start Digging In...
04-06-12
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Silver Circle Movie
Our full length comic book that was adapted from the movie's script is almost fully published online. We will be celebrating its last page published soon...followed by printing of the entire book.
Time to dig in, however I should warn you of the
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Megan Duffield
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News Link • Religion: Believers
HAVE a BLESSED GOOD FRIDAY! IT was GOOD because CHRIST had to die for OUR SINS!
040612
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www.varight.com
Why is Good Friday good? Nothing good about the torturous execution of a man two thousand years ago. But it was good because it was God's way to make peace and seek a relationship with us even though we sinned and rebelled against Him!
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News Link • Military
Military board says Marine should be dismissed
04-06-2012
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AP
Stein's lawyers argued the 9-year Marine, whose service was to end in 4 months, was expressing his personal views and exercising his First Amendment rights. "We're truly surprised and disappointed but it was an honor to fight for a hero like Sgt. Ste
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News Link • Technology: Software
Half a million Mac computers 'infected with malware'
04-06-2012
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BBC News
More than half a million Apple computers have been infected with the Flashback Trojan, according to a Russian anti-virus firm.
Its report claims that about 600,000 Macs have installed the malware - potentially allowing them to be hijacked and used
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Government
Twitter, the FBI, and You
04-06-2012
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http://motherjones.com, By Asawin Suebsaeng
Government officials want to data-mine social media to scan for criminal activity. But are their efforts just a complete waste of time?
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Food
Ammonia used in many foods, not just "pink slime"
04-06-2012
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Reuters
What they may not have known is that ammonia - often associated with cleaning products - was cleared by U.S. health officials nearly 40 years ago and is used in making many foods, including cheese. Related compounds have a role in baked goods and cho
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
Three plead guilty in botched "Fast and Furious" gun-running sting
04-06-2012
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Reuters
Three men pleaded guilty on Thursday to charges of trafficking high-powered rifles and other guns to Mexico from Arizona under the botched "Fast and Furious" federal sting operation tied to the murder of a U.S. federal agent.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
Why We Should End Handouts to Oil and Gas Companies
04-06-2012
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http://motherjones.com, By Bill McKibben
The fossil fuel business is wrecking our planet, and we're paying them a multibillion dollar bonus to do it.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
'Complete Lawlessness' at Orleans Parish Prison
04-06-2012
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motherjones.com,By James Ridgeway and Jean Casella
The notorious New Orleans jail where inmates were abandoned during Katrina faces a new lawsuit over egregious conditions.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Imperialism
From the Cold War to NATO's "Humanitarian Wars" - The Complicity of the United Nations
04-06-2012
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www.globalresearch.ca, by Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya
Humanitarian wars, especially under the guise of the “Responsibility to Protect (R2P),” are a modern form of imperialism.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • WAR: About that War
US-Israel War on Iran : The Myth of Limited Warfare
04-06-2012
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http://www.globalresearch.ca, by Prof. James
The mounting threat of a US-Israeli military attack against Iran is based on several factors including:
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Drug War
Putting A Face On the Statistics in Mexico's (Otherwise Unsuccessful) War on Drugs
04-06-2012
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http://www.commondreams.org, by Abby Zimet
After five years of Mexico's bloody, ineffective war on drugs, over half the population say they feel unsafe in their own neighborhoods and activist residents are turning to communal art projects and other grassroots efforts to combat the violence
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Israel - Palestine
Not A Unique Day: Skunk Truck, Sound Bomb, Rubber-Coated Bullets
04-06-2012
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http://www.commondreams.org,
A disturbing first-person account of Israeli soldiers assaulting peaceful protesters during the Global March to Jerusalem with weapons - from tear gas and deafening "siren" to live ammunition and breaking down doors to make random arrests
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Philosophy: Fascism
The Best Congress the Banks’ Money Can Buy
04-06-2012
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commondreams, by Bill Moyers and Michael Winship
Here we go again. Another round of the game we call Congressional Creep.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama Signs "Fraud-Friendly" JOBS Act into Law
04-06-2012
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http://www.commondreams.org, Common Dreams staff
Economist: Bill will bring fraud, destroy jobs
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Activism
Despairing Greek Leftist Makes Final Stand
04-06-2012
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http://www.commondreams.org
Christoulas active in "I Won't Pay" -- citizens' movement protesting austerity
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Environment
USGS: Recent Earthquakes 'Almost Certainly Manmade'
04-06-2012
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http://www.commondreams.org, Common Dreams staff
Report implicates oil and natural gas drilling, aka fracking
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Agriculture
Dutch Elm Disease Resistant American Elms Been Cloned
04-06-2012
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arclein
The imported fungal infection interferes with water transport and stops nutrients from circulating in the tree. Only about one in 100,000 elms may be naturally resistant to the pathogen.
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robert klein
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News Link • Climate Change
Weather Records Due to Climate Change
04-06-2012
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arclein
In 2010, Western Russia experienced the hottest summer in centuries, while in Pakistan and Australia record-breaking amounts of rain fell. 2003 saw Europe's hottest summer in at least half a millennium. And in 2002, the weather station of Zinnwald-G
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robert klein
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
One More OJ Plot Twist
04-06-2012
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arclein
In the investigation into the murders of Brown and Goldman, Jason Simpson was never considered a suspect or a person of interest. The 41-year-old lives in Miami, where he reportedly works as a chef. HuffPost was unable to reach Simpson for comment Mo
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robert klein
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News Link • Depression
Next Great Depression? MIT researchers predict ‘global economic collapse’ by 2030
04-05-2012
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Eric Pfeiffer, The Sideshow
Uber smart people are predicting a depression to support the narrative of the big bad guys who want to steal everything including your life. This study was produced for the Club of Rome. That tells some of us all we need to know about the conclusions
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Christopher Campbell
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News Link • New World Order
Pawns In The Game, by William Guy Carr
04-05-2012
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www.wn.com
Rev 2:9 I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Police State
Black in White Plains: The Police Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain
04-05-2012
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http://www.commondreams.org, by Amy Goodman
“My name is Kenneth Chamberlain. This is my sworn testimony. White Plains police are going to come in here and kill me.”
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Israel
Israel Presses US for Another $700 Million in Military Aid
04-05-2012
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http://news.antiwar.com, by Jason Ditz
Funding Needed for Missile Defense Israeli Military Felt Wasn't Worth Paying For
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Robert Lee
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News Link • European Union
At Last, Conservative Candidate Supports Wall Street Speculation Tax
04-05-2012
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http://www.commondreams.org, by Sarah Anderson
The conservative presidential candidate has decided he can't win unless he raises taxes on the financial sector.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • European Union
Retired Pharmacist's 'Austerity' Suicide Jolts Greece; Ignites Outrage
04-05-2012
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http://www.commondreams.org, Common Dreams staff
A a 77-year-old retired pharmacist shot himself in the head Wednesday in central Athens
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Food
Poland to ban Monsanto’s genetically modified maize
04-04-2012
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RawStory.com
Poland will impose a complete ban on growing the MON810 genetically modified strain of maize made by US company Monsanto on its territory, Agriculture Minister Marek Sawicki said Wednesday.
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News Link • 911 / World Trade Center
Accused September 11 mastermind to face trial at Guantanamo
04-04-2012
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Reuters
Accused September 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four suspected co-conspirators were ordered to stand trial before a Guantanamo war crimes tribunal, the Pentagon said, a move that throws the politically charged case into the limelight in an
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Activism
Agents of the State Attack Peaceful Protesters
04-04-2012
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Lew Rockwell blog
Syria? No, Santa Monica, CA. Can we expect a UN Security Council resolution calling for President Obama to step down after disarming the police forces? No, "Responsibility to Protect" does not (yet) apply to the Empire.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Corruption
Regulators: JPMorgan illegally let Lehman Bros. count customers’ funds as its own
04-04-2012
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Washington Post
JPMorgan Chase illegally allowed Lehman Brothers, the investment bank whose 2008 bankruptcy brought the financial system to the brink of collapse, to count customers’ money as its own, according to federal regulators.
The arrangement boosted the a
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Father Gets a New Trial in the Death of His Little Boy
04-04-2012
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Phoenix New Times
The allegations, some of which were stunning, led to an extended court hearing where the judge and attorneys for both the prosecution and defense questioned each panelist " 12 deliberating jurors and three remaining alternates.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
Prison time for New Orleans ex-cops in post-Katrina killings
04-04-2012
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Reuters
Four former New Orleans policemen convicted of shootings in 2005 that killed two unarmed people and wounded four others following Hurricane Katrina were given sentences on Wednesday ranging from 38 to 65 years in prison.
A fifth former police offi
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
Obama's NSA: Close to knowing all about us - by Nat Hentoff
04-04-2012
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WND
Attorney General Eric Holder has officially and publicly declared “new guidelines that permit the federal counterterrorism investigators to collect, search and store data about Americans who are not suspected of terrorism, or anything …
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • r3VOLution Continues
The UK's network of young and student liberals and libertarians - Liberty League
04-04-2012
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www.uklibertyleague.org
The Liberty League exists for students and professionals committed to the defence of freedom. If you are in the UK, check it out.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Pinal County Sheriff's Office balks at turning over laptops
04-04-2012
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Arizona Republic
The Pinal County Sheriff's Office is not cooperating with efforts by the county's information-technology department to inspect some computer equipment as part of a federal investigation into potentially unlawful on-the-job political activity....
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Feds say Sheriff Arpaio refuses independent monitor
04-04-2012
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Arizona Republic
Sheriff Joe Arpaio rejected outright the U.S. Justice Dept's demand for an independent monitor to oversee his office's operations, saying it would infringe on his authority over the agency. Arpaio's decision makes it likely that the two sides will fa
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
Taking Liberties - Demanding Back Our Civil Liberties (DVD - Video Trailer)
04-04-2012
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www.noliberties.com
TAKING LIBERTIES is a shocking but hilarious polemic documentary that charts the destruction of all your Basic Liberties under 10 Years of New Labour. Released to coincide with Tony Blair's departure, the film and the book follow the stories of norma
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Anonymous fights Arizona censorship bill with 'butthurt form'
04-04-2012
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http://rt.com
There’s a fine line between offensive and hilarious, and Arizona lawmakers aim to make that boundary legally protected.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Internet
Even worse than SOPA: New CISPA cybersecurity bill will censor the Web
04-04-2012
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http://rt.com
An onrush of condemnation and criticism kept the SOPA and PIPA acts from passing earlier this year, but US lawmakers have already authored another authoritarian bill that could give them free reign to creep the Web in the name of cybersecurity.
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