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Date Sent: 2012-07-29
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Sunday, July 29, 2012 |
DHS Prepares for Civil Unrest as Obama Poised to Destroy 2nd Amendment
Syrian war of lies and hypocrisy: West's real target here is not Assad's
brutal regime -- MORE FALSE FLAGS COMING! -- 4409: The Huckabee
Hypocrisy -- New York Times on Israel's
Democracy -- The banker-government consortium re-exposed in the
Libor scandal won't be unwound from the top -- 07-28-12 Ernest Hancock
& Bob Anderson - Microeffect Patriot Radio with Larry Becraft (MP3
Loaded) -- Police Defendants Pay $210,000 To Settle Illegal Roadblock
Lawsuit -- Auschwitz-Like Conditions at U.S. Funded Afghan Hospital was
Covered Up by U.S. General -- U.S. Spies Probably Won’t Blow Up Our Airplanes,
TSA Concludes -- South Korean Artist Prepares to Launch His Homemade
Satellite Into Orbit -- US Denies UN Arms Trade Treaty in Favor of
Providing Weapons to Insurgents -- Google Approves an App that Steals
All Your Data -- NSA Boss Wants More Control Over the 'Net -- Are
climate skeptics more likely to be conspiracy theorists? -- Washington
Post Claims Persons Who Seek Privacy Are Criminals -- Hackers could haunt global air traffic control: researcher -- Hungarian PM blames EU for
economic crisis -- Pollution protestors clash with police in China
-- Colorado Shooting Patsy Was Under Air Force
Psychiatrist’s Care -- Syria: Washington’s Latest War Crime -- Raw milk advocate James Stewart
seized by armed bounty hunters driving unmarked vehicles.. -- Larry
Pratt: Batman Shooting Could be Staged -- Gun carrying man ends
stabbing spree at Salt Lake grocery store -- Government, Military To
Fly Predator Drones Over North Dakota -- First working 3D-printed
firearm built -- Media Covering Up Gun Self-Defense Stories --
Harvard Study Finds Fluoride Lowers IQ - Published in Federal Gov't
Journal -- Concealed weapons save lives -- New York Times Co. Posts
$88 Million Loss, Citing About.com Write-Down -- Kid's Hot Dog Stand
Shut Down by City Officials Before It Even Opens -- Time To
De-Bloombergize New York City -- Bombshell: Leaked UN Treaty Does
Ban Guns -- Does billboard comparing Obama to alleged Colorado shooter go too
far? -- Preventing More Middle East Wars Tops All Priorities
Jackalope Freedom Festival - Detailed Directions &
Descriptions - August 3rd – 5th 2012
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News Link • Surveillance
DHS Prepares for Civil Unrest as Obama Poised to Destroy 2nd Amendment
07-29-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Surveillance drones have a new mission. According to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) they will be used for “public safety”. Janet Napolitano, Secretary of the DHS, told a House Committee meeting on Homeland Security that the more than 30,00
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News Link • Syria
Syrian war of lies and hypocrisy: West's real target here is not Assad's brutal regime
07-29-2012
This is an attempt to crush the Syrian dictatorship not because of our love for Syrians or our hatred of our former friend Bashar al-Assad. No, this is all about our desire to crush the Islamic Republic, Iran, and its infernal nuclear plans " if they
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Feature Article • Media: Radio
MORE FALSE FLAGS COMING!
Dave Hodges
The Common Sense Show with Dave Hodges, Dave and Annie De Riso welcome Susanne Cosel as they explore the likelihood of more false flag attacks coming to American shores
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News Link • Police State
Police Defendants Pay $210,000 To Settle Illegal Roadblock Lawsuit
07-28-2012
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www.checkpointusa.org
3,451 days after being seized, detained, dragged out of my vehicle & arrested at an illegal general law enforcement roadblock conducted by Tohono O'odham Police Dept. officers with the assistance of Senior Special U.S. Customs agents along with dozen
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News Link • Afghanistan
Auschwitz-Like Conditions at U.S. Funded Afghan Hospital was Covered Up by U.S. General
07-28-2012
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http://politicalvelcraft.org
A high rank US commander in Afghanistan has come under scrutiny after US military officials accused him of opposing a probe into poor conditions and the ill-treatment of patients at an Afghan-run US-funded hospital in Kabul.
Lieutenant General Wil
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News Link • OLYMPICS London Summer 2012
Olympics Physics: New Platform Is No Chip Off the Old Starting Block
07-28-2012
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Rhett Allain via WIRED.com
Olympic swimmers don’t just dive into the pool like the rest of us. They start on a block called, appropriately enough, a starting block. London will see the Olympic debut of a track-style starting block with an inclined surface and a lip at the back
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News Link • OLYMPICS London Summer 2012
Olympic Archers Target Better Gear for Straight Shots
07-28-2012
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Nathan Hurst via WIRED.com
Brady Ellison is the top archer on the planet right now. At 23, he’s ranked No. 1 on the recurve bow, a feat made all the more impressive by the fact he didn’t pick up a recurve bow until six years ago.
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News Link • Transportation
U.S. Spies Probably Won’t Blow Up Our Airplanes, TSA Concludes
07-28-2012
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Noah Shachtman via WIRED.com
For years, America’s spies had to take off their shoes before they got on planes, just like the rest of us. No more.
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
South Korean Artist Prepares to Launch His Homemade Satellite Into Orbit
07-28-2012
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Colin Lecher via PopSci.com
South Korean artist Song Ho-jun has spent years working on his very own DIY sputnik, a homemade satellite cobbled together from electronics store parts. It might be the first satellite completely built by an individual.
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News Link • United Nations
US Denies UN Arms Trade Treaty in Favor of Providing Weapons to Insurgents
07-28-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Last week, the delegates who attended the Arms Trade Treaty Conference (ATT) reportedly did not come to a consensus to ratify the ATT, but rather will come back to the issue later this year.
Further talks will likely take place at a UN General Assem
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News Link • Energy
Siluria Taps Natural Gas Glut to Make Chemicals
07-28-2012
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Martin LaMonica via TechnologyReview.com
The MIT spin-off lands $30 million to build a demonstration plant that makes ethylene from natural gas, rather than oil.
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News Link • Energy
Microgrid Keeps the Power Local, Cheap, and Reliable
07-28-2012
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Kevin Bullis via TechnologyReview.com
A California jail offers a glimpse of the economic and environmental benefits of locally generated energy.
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
Big money for Microsoft ‘Blue Hats’
07-28-2012
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The Raw Story.com
As hackers from around the world converged on Las Vegas, Microsoft doled out a quarter million dollars in prize money to researchers who found ways to thwart attacks on its software.
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News Link • Climate Change
Are climate skeptics more likely to be conspiracy theorists?
07-28-2012
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Nicholas Watt, The Guardian
It’s time to come clean: climate change is a hoax. And the moon landings were faked, 9/11 was an inside job, and the CIA is hiding the identity of the gunman on the grassy knoll.
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News Link • Surveillance
Washington Post Claims Persons Who Seek Privacy Are Criminals
07-28-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
’m concerned by the opening paragraph of a Washington Post article covering Skype’s recent policy changes regarding how they share their user data with the government. Until now Skype has been considered an extremely secure and private method of int
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News Link • OLYMPICS London Summer 2012
Humans wouldn’t do well in all-species Olympics: study
07-28-2012
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The Raw Story.com
Human beings would be made to look decidedly unimpressive were animals allowed to compete in the Olympics " outperformed by the likes of kangaroos, gorillas and ostriches, a science paper said.
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News Link • Voting and Elections
Slow growth leaves White House race wide open
07-28-2012
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The Raw Story.com
Weak consumer spending stunted US growth in the last quarter, data showed Friday, leaving the race for the White House wide open and putting discussion about more economic stimulus firmly on the Fed’s agenda.
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
Hackers could haunt global air traffic control: researcher
07-28-2012
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The Raw Story.com
Air traffic control software used around the world could be exploited by hackers to unleash squadrons of ghost planes to befuddle those entrusted to keep the skies safe, a security researcher said Thursday.
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News Link • OLYMPICS London Summer 2012
Phelps survives scare, China win first gold
07-28-2012
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The Raw Story.com
Swimming legend Michael Phelps suffered a nervy start in his bid to become the greatest Olympian in history on Saturday while Chinese shooter Yi Siling claimed the first gold of the Games.
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News Link • Economy - International
Hungarian PM blames EU for economic crisis
07-28-2012
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The Raw Story.com
Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Orban lashed out at the European Union for failing to solve the bloc’s economic crisis on Saturday, a day after calling for a new economic system.
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News Link • Environment
Pollution protestors clash with police in China
07-28-2012
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The Raw Story.com
Thousands of people demonstrating over fears of pollution from a sewage pipeline at a paper factory in east China clashed with police Saturday, the latest in a series of environmental protests.
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News Link • Japan - Earthquake Tsunami Radiation
Thousands expected for latest Japanese nuclear protest
07-28-2012
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The Raw Story.com
Thousands of people are expected to form a “human chain” around Japan’s parliament on Sunday as part of demonstrations aimed at ending nuclear power after last year’s atomic crisis at Fukushima.
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News Link • OLYMPICS London Summer 2012
Olympics officials confront rash of under-attended events
07-28-2012
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The Raw Story.com
Olympics organizers were urgently investigating why several venues had swathes of empty seats on Saturday, the first full day of competition at the London Games.
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News Link • Aurora, Co. Batman Movie Massacre
Batman actor Christian Bale visits Aurora, Colo., shooting victims
07-28-2012
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Alexandra Zavis via LA Times.com
Christian Bale, star of the Batman trilogy of movies, paid a surprise visit Tuesday to injured victims of the recent shooting rampage in Aurora, Colo. The shooting occurred during a midnight screening of the latest Batman film, “The Dark Knight Rises
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News Link • Conspiracies
Breaking: Colorado Shooting Patsy Was Under Air Force Psychiatrist’s Care
07-28-2012
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www.prisonplanet.com
This whole tragedy is covered with all the hallmarks of a staged event. Now we learn that the “shooter”AKA the clown patsy was under the care of a top air force psychiatrist.
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News Link • Gun Rights
For every 1 American who commits a murderous gun crime 8000 up standing gun owners will have to surr
07-28-2012
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TrUTh iSUrgEnt
Crunch the numbers for yourselves (links below.) Your being bamboozled people...I don't see photo-opbama running to the bedside of the innocent victims of U.S. drones (or CIA mayhem) in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, or Libya, Peace Prize Winner an Ch
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News Link • Events: America
The Two Sides of James Holmes, the Colorado shooter
07-28-2012
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http://thenewamerican.com, by Bob Adelmann
...On one hand, Holmes was a bright young man, having been raised in an upper-middle class neighborhood by his parents. In other words, he was about as normal as hot weather in the summer.On the other hand...
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News Link • Syria
Syria: Washington’s Latest War Crime
07-28-2012
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http://lewrockwell.com, by Paul Craig Roberts
One wonders what Syrians are thinking as “rebels” vowing to “free Syria” take the country down the same road to destruction as “rebels” in Libya.
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News Link • Government
Raw milk advocate James Stewart seized by armed bounty hunters driving unmarked vehicles..
07-28-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Mike Adams
James Stewart, the 65-year-old raw “milk man” and founder of Rawesome Foods, was assaulted near his home today by three armed men driving unmarked luxury vehicles with no license plates.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Larry Pratt: Batman Shooting Could be Staged
07-28-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com
Last week’s shooting in Colorado shows us, once again, the failure of gun control. The Century 16 theaters in Aurora were “gun free” zones, where citizens are prohibited from carrying weapons for self defense.
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News Link • Heroes
Gun carrying man ends stabbing spree at Salt Lake grocery store
07-28-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Don Hudson
citizen with a gun stopped a knife wielding man as he began stabbing people Thursday evening at the downtown Salt Lake City Smith’s store.
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
First working 3D-printed firearm built
07-28-2012
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http://www.gizmag.com, By Jonathan Fincher
As the technology improves, 3D printers are being used more and more to create a wide variety of objects, some incredibly useful (like skeletal implants) and some just for fun (like custom robot figurines).
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
Media Covering Up Gun Self-Defense Stories
07-28-2012
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http://politicaloutcast.com, byPhilip Hodges
I was talking to a friend recently about the whole Colorado theater massacre. We were lamenting about how our culture is so obsessed with these psychopathic murderers and that we never hear about the heroes, because sadly, in our dying culture, there
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Harvard Study Finds Fluoride Lowers IQ - Published in Federal Gov't Journal
07-28-2012
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http://www.marketwatch.com
Harvard University researchers' review of fluoride/brain studies concludes "our results support the possibility of adverse effects of fluoride exposures on children's neurodevelopment."
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News Link • Media: Print
New York Times Co. Posts $88 Million Loss, Citing About.com Write-Down
07-28-2012
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http://www.nytimes.com, By AMY CHOZICK
The New York Times Company reported a second-quarter loss on Thursday because of a write-down in the value of About.com and continuing declines in print and digital advertising revenue.
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News Link • Entrepreneurship
Kid's Hot Dog Stand Shut Down by City Officials Before It Even Opens
07-28-2012
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http://reason.com, Katherine Mangu-Ward
This summer, 13-year-old Nathan Duszynski wanted to make some money to help out his disabled parents"his mom has epilepsy and his dad has multiple sclerosis. So he decided to open a hot dog stand.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Time To De-Bloombergize New York City
07-28-2012
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, by S.M. Oliva
...City Mayor Michael Bloomberg issued an extraordinary statement. A longtime opponent of the right to self-defense, Bloomberg told a CNN interviewer that police have a moral duty to rebel against the civilian population if they don't cede their rema
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News Link • Obama Administration
Does billboard comparing Obama to alleged shooter go too far?
07-28-2012
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CBS News
The [anti-war] billboard on Franklin Road equates the actions of the president's foreign policies to the acts of Holmes, who's suspected of killing 12 people in the theater shooting.
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News Link • Agriculture
Helping Pigs to Digest Phosphorus
07-28-2012
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arclein
Stein's team tested the digestibility of phosphorus in conventional corn grain, corn germ, distillers dried grains with solubles (DDGS), and high-protein distillers dried grains (DDG). They tested each ingredient with no phytate and with 500 units,
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Cancer Blocker Begins Clinical Trials
07-28-2012
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arclein
when ribosome biogenesis is dysregulated, proteins are overproduced, creating rampant cell growth, a hallmark of cancer; and abnormalities of the nucleolus, the site of ribosome biogenesis, have been used as an indicator of cancer for over 100 years
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News Link • Science
Results on Oceanic Iron Fertilization
07-28-2012
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arclein
The bloom was dominated by diatoms, a group of algae that require dissolved silicon to make their shells and are known to form large, slimy aggregates with high sinking rates at the end of their blooms.
"We were able to prove that over 50 per cent
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News Link • Agriculture
Regulation Through Wholesale
07-28-2012
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arclein
As their name implies, gestation crates are essentially steel cages that keep pregnant sows confined in a space roughly the size of their bodies. They’re commonly seen " along with battery cages for egg-laying hens " as among the least humane livesto
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Opinion • Humor
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
July 29, 2012 Edition
07-27-2012
John Semmens
Mayors Play Chicken with First Amendment Rights
Though it would seem that Chick-fil-A president Dan Cathy's opinion that marriage is an institution between one man and one woman is protected by the Constitution's First Amendment, mayors in three c
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Opinion • Gun Rights
Don’t Try That In Montana!
07-27-2012
Chuck Baldwin
By now, everybody in the country knows about the horrific shootings at a packed theater in the metro Denver area last week. Twelve people were killed and scores were wounded. Predictably, gun-control zealots nationwide are shouting for stricter gun c
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Mayor Ed Lee committed to stop and frisk
07-26-2012
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San Francisco Chronicle
Mayor Ed Lee remains resolute in implementing some form of a stop-and-frisk program " even if it’s not called that " in the wake of the mass shooting in Colo., and a trip to Philadelphia, which has its own stop-and-frisk program.
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News Link • Healthcare Industry
Deals to Keep Generic Drugs Off Market Get a Court Rebuff
07-26-2012
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New York Times
It would seem a business executive’s dream: legally pay a competitor to keep its product off the market for years. Generic drug makers and big-name pharmaceutical companies have been winning court rulings that allowed it.
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News Link • Corruption
Justice Department officials violated nepotism rules, new report says
07-26-2012
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Washington Post
Eight Justice Department officials tried to get their children and other relatives hired at the department in violation of laws and regulations, according to a report released Thursday by the department’s inspector general.
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News Link • Drug War
Ninety arrested in nationwide synthetic drug crackdown
07-26-2012
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Reuters
Federal agents arrested more than 90 people and seized about 5 million packets of synthetic drugs - known on the street as "bath salts," "K2" and "Spice" - in the first U.S. nationwide crackdown on "designer drugs," the Drug Enforcement Administratio
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News Link • Syria
Turkey warns it would strike PKK fighters inside Syria
07-26-2012
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AFP
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has accused Syria of giving Kurdish rebels a free hand in its north and warned that Ankara would not hesitate to strike.
"In the north, it (President Bashar al-Assad's regime) has allotted five provinces
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News Link • European Union
German tax authorities raiding homes of ‘suspected’ evaders
07-26-2012
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http://www.sovereignman.com,Simon Black
Late last night I arrived to Brussels. As the capital of the European Union, Brussels is Europe’s political mother ship, the home base of the continent’s good idea factory.
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