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Date Sent: 2012-04-22
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Sunday, April 22, 2012 |
B of A: Won't service gun companies, tells McMillan International to get lost -- Spain Bans Cash
Series of quakes hits Indonesia exposing disaster management flaws -- At least 125 injured as two trains collide in Amsterdam -- ‘West doesn’t care what Bahrain does to its people’ -- 'I want France out of eurozone!' - Presidential candidate -- Iran starts cloning of American spy drone -- Blue gold: Africa’s enormous secret water wealth -- Tempering Iron Dome: US may spend $680 million on Israeli missile shield -- Fifty arrested on second day of protests in Canada -- CANADA: Fixing Elections Through Fraud -- "QUEER ANARCHY": State Oppression and the Rights of "Sexual
Minorities" -- SYRIA: UN Working With NATO to Provide Pretext for
Intervention -- Afghanistan is not a US Colony! -- Occupy Earth Day -- No Fair Share for War Taxes -- Meet the Media Companies Lobbying Against Transparency -- Czechs Stage Massive Anti-Austerity Rally -- French President Sarkozy 'Desperate' Ahead of First Round of
Election -- One Nation Under Debt With Endless Debt Slavery For All -- Why Is It Necessary For The Federal Government To Turn The United States Into A Prison Camp? -- Deepwater Drilling in Gulf 'Back With a Vengeance' -- Security Council Authorizes 300 Syrian Monitors -- Protesting for Justice in Bahrain -- Spain about to enter full-scale collapse - the Eurozone is peeing their pants -- Ron Paul keeps on running -- Canada Will
Pledge Funds For Other Countries, Not Euro Zone - Flaherty --
Germany sees upswing amid eurozone turmoil -- Gingrich racks up more
debt as his campaign disintegrates -- Ready to Blow? Mexico Volcano
Rumbles -- DRS wins $269M contract
for military Internet cafe -- Contracting waste, fraud 'significant'
in Afghanistan, IG says -- Air Force's $1 billion IT system has
‘negligible' capability, comptroller says -- Dolphin
deaths in Peru still a mystery -- 'Steinbeck In Vietnam': A Great Writer's Last Reports -- Two Years
Later, BP Spill Reminders Litter Gulf Coast -- GOP Intensifies Its
Outreach To Latino Voters Focusing On The Economy -- Drugs, Cuba dominated summit -- Guarani activist
target of death threats -- Indigenous
farmers take the lead -- Analysis: Did U.S. fumble chance to peer
inside China's secretive leadership? -- America's Gulf Disaster
Revisited -- Grand Prix Hypocrisy in Bahrain
AZ: Free CCW Legal Seminar - Marc J. Victor - Weds, 4-25, 6-8 pm, Chester's
Harley-Davidson (Mesa)
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News Link • Economy - International
Spain Bans Cash
04-21-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, The Daily Bell
Spain Bans Cash Transactions Over 2,500 Euros … Spain has outlawed the use of cash in business transactions in excess 2,500 euros in order to crack down on the black market and tax evaders.
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Natural Disasters
Series of quakes hits Indonesia exposing disaster management flaws
04-22-2012
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http://rt.com
A series of tremors rocked parts of Indonesia for several hours overnight, causing panic.
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Transportation
At least 125 injured as two trains collide in Amsterdam
04-22-2012
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http://rt.com
Two trains have collided in Amsterdam, Dutch media reports. At least 125 people were injured in the accident, around 50 seriously.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • World News
‘West doesn’t care what Bahrain does to its people’
04-22-2012
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http://rt.com
The pro-democracy protests in Bahrain have been going on for more than a year now but the West will keep on turning a blind eye to human rights in the country as long as it acts in accordance with US interests.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • World News
'I want France out of eurozone!' - Presidential candidate
04-22-2012
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http://rt.com
Democracy needs to be restored in France as well as control over its military, Nicolas Dupont-Aignan, a right-wing candidate in the presidential race, told RT. He says “Yes” to free trade and “No” to an undemocratic political super state.
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Iran
Iran starts cloning of American spy drone
04-22-2012
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http://rt.com
Iran has completed reverse-engineering of the captured US spy drone and has started building its own copy.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Africa: On the Map
Blue gold: Africa’s enormous secret water wealth
04-22-2012
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http://rt.com
Africa is sitting on a giant reservoir of groundwater, British scientists have discovered. But the new information might prove both a boon and a curse.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Military
Tempering Iron Dome: US may spend $680 million on Israeli missile shield
04-22-2012
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http://rt.com
The US could fork out $680 million on strengthening the Israeli Iron Dome rocket shield.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • World News
Fifty arrested on second day of protests in Canada
04-22-2012
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http://rt.com
At least 50 protesters have been arrested in Montreal as police clamped down on a demonstration against plans to develop northern Quebec.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • World News
CANADA: Fixing Elections Through Fraud
04-22-2012
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http://www.globalresearch.ca, by Anthony J. Hall
On the Need for a Royal Commission on Electoral Practices in Canada
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Sexuality: Sex and the Law
"QUEER ANARCHY": State Oppression and the Rights of "Sexual Minorities"
04-22-2012
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http://www.globalresearch.ca, by Devon DB
"Queer is an umbrella term for sexual minorities which are not heterosexual, heteronormative or gender binary" (Wikipedia)
The state itself is a form of oppression.
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Syria
SYRIA: UN Working With NATO to Provide Pretext for Intervention
04-22-2012
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http://www.globalresearch.ca, by Tony Cartalucci
UN "aid" program to be used in establishing NATO "humanitarian corridors."
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Afghanistan
Afghanistan is not a US Colony!
04-22-2012
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http://www.globalresearch.ca, by Dr. Ismail Salami
A country robbed of peace and bereft of aspirations, Afghanistan seems to be plunging more and more into a pitiful morass of grievances brought about by the military madness the US troops exhibit in the beleaguered land with brazen-faced contumely.
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Events: America
Occupy Earth Day
04-22-2012
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http://www.commondreams.org, by Peter Rugh
Earth is melting down like a nuclear reactor. At current rates of warming, Arctic sea ice will melt away by 2030.
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
No Fair Share for War Taxes
04-22-2012
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http://www.commondreams.org, by Frida Berrigan
For most Americans, April is a month marked by terrible stress, paper pushing and a last minute mad dash to get the taxes finished before April 15 (or the 17th, this year).
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
Meet the Media Companies Lobbying Against Transparency
04-22-2012
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http://www.commondreams.org, by Justin Elliott
News organizations cultivate a reputation for demanding transparency, whether by suing for access to government documents, dispatching camera crews to the doorsteps of recalcitrant politicians, or editorializing in favor of open government.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • World News
Czechs Stage Massive Anti-Austerity Rally
04-22-2012
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http://www.commondreams.org, Common Dreams staff
As many as 100,000 Czechs have been protesting today in Prague against the government's austerity measures.
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • World News
French President Sarkozy 'Desperate' Ahead of First Round of Election
04-22-2012
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http://www.commondreams.org, Common Dreams staff
French President Sarkozy is showing his "desperation" ahead of Sunday's first round of the French presidential election with polls showing Socialist candidate François Hollande continuing his lead over the current president.
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
One Nation Under Debt With Endless Debt Slavery For All
04-22-2012
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prisonplanet.com, End of the American Dream
In America today, it is not legal to bind people up with chains and force them to work for you, but that doesn’t mean that there are not millions upon millions of slaves in this country.
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Government
Why Is It Necessary For The Federal Government To Turn The United States Into A Prison Camp?
04-22-2012
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www.prisonplanet.com, Economic Collapse Blog
There has been no society in the history of the world that has ever been 100% safe.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Energy
Deepwater Drilling in Gulf 'Back With a Vengeance'
04-22-2012
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http://www.commondreams.org, Common Dreams staff
Despite the ongoing environmental and public health disasters left in the wake of BP's Deepwater Horizon "oilpocalypse" two years ago, deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico is "back with a vengeance."
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - International
Spain about to enter full-scale collapse - the Eurozone is peeing their pants
04-21-2012
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Zero Hedge
Put another way, today the entire Spanish banking system is saturated with toxic mortgage debt on a level that makes the US in 2008 LOOK GREAT.
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Reported by:
Chip Saunders
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Ron Paul keeps on running
04-21-2012
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http://www.post-gazette.com, By James O'Toole
Texas Rep. Ron Paul reveled in hometown cheers on a campaign visit Friday to the town where he grew up, rallying voters for the all-but-forgotten Pennsylvania primary.
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • European Union
UPDATE: Canada Will Pledge Funds For Other Countries, Not Euro Zone - Flaherty
04-21-2012
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http://online.wsj.com, By Nirmala Menon
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Robert Lee
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News Link • European Union
Germany sees upswing amid eurozone turmoil
04-21-2012
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http://www.businessweek.com, By DAVID McHUGH
key index of business optimism on Friday reinforced what an increasing number of economists are saying: Germany is beginning to see an upswing -- even as the rest of the 17-country eurozone struggles with economic and financial turmoil over too much
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Gingrich racks up more debt as his campaign disintegrates
04-21-2012
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http://www.washingtonpost.com, By Dan Eggen
Newt Gingrich, whose quixotic presidential bid has been dogged by financial problems, racked up nearly $3 million in new debt for private jet flights, security consultants and travel costs in March even as his campaign teetered on the edge of collaps
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Natural Disasters
Ready to Blow? Mexico Volcano Rumbles
04-21-2012
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http://news.discovery.com, by AFP
Mexico's Popocatepetl volcano has been spewing molten rock up to a mile from its crater.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
When It All Gets Too Much " Eight Tips for Coping During Stressful Times
04-21-2012
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http://wakeup-world.com, By Gaye Levy
Has it ever happened to you? You put your hands to your head, press hard, and think “it is all too much!”
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Robert Lee
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News Link • World News
U.N. To Announce Plan For WORLD SOCIALISM In June
04/21/2012
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godlikeproductions.com
This UN doctrine seems to directly channel Marx and Engel's scribe of 1848, "The Communist Manifesto," wherein its' organizational and operational structure appears to largely be a paraphrasical equivalent to the 10 short-term demands Marx prescr
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Phennommennonn GLP
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News Link • Government Waste
DRS wins $269M contract for military Internet cafe
04-20-2012
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David Hubler, Washington Technology
DRS Technical Services Inc. will create an overseas Internet cafe to boost troop morale under a Navy contract that could be worth as much as $269 million if all options are exercised.
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
Contracting waste, fraud 'significant' in Afghanistan, IG says
04-19-2012
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Jolie Lee, Federal News Radio
The Commission Wartime Contracting found that the United States lost between $31 billion and $60 billion to waste, fraud and abuse in wartime contracts during operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Government Waste
Air Force's $1 billion IT system has ‘negligible' capability, comptroller says
04-19-2012
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Federal Times
The system is supposed to save billions of dollars by streamlining the Air Force's supply chain management and providing an integrated approach for buying, moving and managing equipment. Morin described the new system's "usable capability" as "neglig
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Animals and Pets
Official: Dolphin deaths in Peru still a mystery
04-21-2012
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FRANKLIN BRICENO, AP
Peruvian authorities are still trying to unravel the mystery of why hundreds of dolphins ended up dead on beaches in the country over the past 2 1/2 months. Carcasses of 877 dolphins and porpoises were found between February and mid-April on the beac
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
'Marley': A History On Film Of The Man Turned 'Legend'
04-21-2012
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http://www.npr.org, by Baz Dreisinger
Do you know Bob Marley? Sure, you do. Maybe you're among his 33 million Facebook and Twitter followers.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Entertainment: Music
For Sale: A Record Store For The Ages
04-21-2012
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http://www.npr.org, by NPR Staff
There is a music store for sale in Los Angeles. It has old, sagging shelves stuffed with hundreds of thousands of recordings, from wax cylinders to 8-track tapes to LPs and CDs.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Books
'Steinbeck In Vietnam': A Great Writer's Last Reports
04-21-2012
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http://www.npr.org, by NPR Staff
The last piece of published writing from one of America's greatest writers was a series of letters he sent back from the front lines of war at the age of 64.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Environment
Two Years Later, BP Spill Reminders Litter Gulf Coast
04-21-2012
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http://www.npr.org, by Debbie Elliott
It's been two years since the Deepwater Horizon exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, killing 11 rig workers and unleashing the worst oil spill in U.S. history.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
GOP Intensifies Its Outreach To Latino Voters Focusing On The Economy
04-21-2012
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http://www.npr.org, by Padmananda Rama
Mitt Romney's presidential campaign is trying to end the deficit it's running with Latino voters by stepping up its outreach efforts.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Food
The Cuban Sandwich Crisis: Tampa V. Miami For The Win
04-21-2012
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http://www.npr.org, by Dan Grech and Scott Finn
Call it the Cuban Sandwich Crisis. Two cities, Tampa and Miami, are locked in a battle to claim the Cuban sandwich as its own.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Environment
5 Pieces of Good News From Planet Earth
04-21-2012
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http://motherjones.com, By Julia Whitty
Most news from nature is depressing"species extinctions, changing climate, dying oceans. Yet it's not all bad... though we might never know it, since positive news is underreported.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • World News
Jungle love: Ferns, feathers, frogs and fronds in the Ecuadorian Amazon
04-21-2012
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http://life.nationalpost.com, Ron Csillag
The macaws caw. Then the frogs chuckle. Next, the howler monkeys howl a message that is conveyed from tree to tree. Everyone takes their turn.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • World News
The global grapevine
04-21-2012
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http://www.ft.com, By Jancis Robinson
Ecuador says it has a vineyard on the equator, while a Napa Valley vintner will oversee Costa Rica’s first wine venture
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Robert Lee
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News Link • World News
Turtle egg theft raises alarms
04-21-2012
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http://lapress.org
Heavily armed group swipes eggs of endangered species, just before hatching.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • World News
Drugs, Cuba dominated summit
04-21-2012
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http://lapress.org,
Hemispheric meeting ended without final declaration but leaders discussed thorny issues.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • World News
Guarani activist target of death threats
04-21-2012
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http://lapress.org
Brazilian authorities investigate targeting of anthropologist studying land conflict.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • World News
Indigenous farmers take the lead
04-21-2012
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http://lapress.org, Louisa Reynolds
Indigenous march demands an end to evictions and environmentally unsound mining projects.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • China
Analysis: Did U.S. fumble chance to peer inside China's secretive leadership?
04-21-2012
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Reuters
Information about a Chinese policeman who implicated the wife of a top Chinese official in a British businessman's murder was not circulated widely in Washington as he was considered of marginal intelligence value, current and former U.S. officials s
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Powell Gammill
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Opinion • Humor
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
April 22, 2012 Edition
04-20-2012
John Semmens
Obama Press Secretary Says GOP Is Politicizing Election
President Obama's Press Secretary Jay Carney lashed out at the GOP for “politicizing the upcoming elections.” “They're trying to exploit so-called scandals and policy failures for political g
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News Link • Events: Arizona
Free CCW Legal Seminar - Marc J. Victor - Weds, 4-25, 6-8 pm, Chester's Harley-Davidson (Mesa, A
04-20-2012
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www.meetup.com/RonPaulPhoenix
Another opportunity to learn about your rights....
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Entertainment: Music
SONG HEARD ROUND THE WORLD (RON PAUL SONG BOMB)-Jordan Page-4/19/12-DOWNLOAD SONG!
04-17-2012
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CDBaby.Com
Revelushun Records invites you to take part in an effort to help Jordan Page's anthem "Light of Revolution (Ron Paul 2012) go viral on the 237th anniversary of the Shot Heard Round the World that started the Revolutionary War. DOWNLOAD SONG!
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