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Date Sent: 2012-01-19
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Thursday, January 19, 2012 AM edition |
Privatizing the War on Terror: America’s Military Contractors -- New Obama OMB director a Bain alum
Times poll shows GOP schism on interventionism -- Dominqiue Strauss-Kahn's wife Anne Sinclar to be editorial director of "Le Huffington Post" -- Poll Sees Shift in Independent Vote, a Hurdle for Obama -- In MF Global, JPMorgan again at center of a financial failure -- U.S. charges Chinese man with NY Fed software theft -- Jan 19th, 2012 - Megan Duffield - Glenn Jacobs - Listen Live, M-F, 9-Noon EST/Watch Live-Justin TV -- THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE condemns AGENDA 21! -- Situation Deteriorates, Pakistan Tells US Envoy to Stay Away -- Sinking the Petrodollar in the Persian Gulf -- Internet Censorship Bill Authored by Bob Goodlatte... -- AMA Journal: Make Participation In Vaccine Trials Mandatory -- EU Fiscal Union Treaty to be Forced Through Without Referendums -- US Treasury dips into pension funds to avoid debt -- IMF seeks more funds -- “Conservatives” Angling for a NEW National Tax? -- STOP PIPA (Senate 968) & SOPA (HR 3261) -- California: America’s
first failed state -- Gingrich Pledges To Kill Enemies Of The United
States -- Ron Paul is the Only Electable Candidate for President - by Szandor Blestman -- Don't think the drug war is the new Jim Crow? Then read this book -- Edible Microchips, Biometric Identity Systems And Mind Reading
Computers -- Israeli Army Says Nuclear Iran Would Hinder Military
Aggression in Gaza, Lebanon -- The Middle Class Disappears, Rise of the Praetorian Class -- Killing Dissent with War -- Wow: McCain campaign 2008 opposition research book on Romney secretly released -- China Brings US Treasury Holdings To One Year Low, Russia Cuts 50%
In One Year -- More South Carolina State Senators Endorse Ron Paul for
President -- Ron Paul wins support urging end to the Fed, pushing the
gold standard. But is that possible? -- MSNBC Defends Ron Paul on AP Hit
Piece!
AZ: Debate Watching Party - Hancock's - Today, Jan 19th, 6 p.m. til??; Obama to visit Phoenix area on Jan. 25; Feb 22 – ARIZONA REPUBLICAN 2012 PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE. 6
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Privatizing the War on Terror: America’s Military Contractors
01-18-2012
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njtoday.net
at the same time that Obama is reducing the number of troops in Iraq, he’s replacing them with military contractors at far greater expense to the taxpayer and redeploying American troops to other parts of the globe, including Africa, Australia and Is
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News Link • Obama Administration
New Obama OMB director a Bain alum
01-18-2012
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Washington Examiner
Jeffrey Zients will serve as President Obama's new acting director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), but the president's decision might undercut attacks on Republican Mitt Romney's career as a venture capitalist, because Zients and Romney
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Times poll shows GOP schism on interventionism
01-18-2012
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Washington Times
Nearly half of all Republican primary voters say it's time the U.S. stops intervening in world affairs and focuses on domestic priorities instead, signaling a persistent rift that is playing out in the party's presidential nomination battle.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Dominqiue Strauss-Kahn's wife Anne Sinclar to be editorial director of "Le Huffington Post*
01-18-2012
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Daily Telegraph
Anne Sinclair, the wife of former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, is to be editorial director of the French version of news website the Huffington Post.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Israel
Israel seeks to end ancient African Jewish custom
01-18-2012
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AP
Descendants of the lost Israelite tribe of Dan, according to Jewish lore, Ethiopian Jews spent millennia isolated from the rest of the Jewish world. In most Jewish communities, the priesthood of the Bible was replaced by rabbis who emphasized text st
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Government
Forgot to Move Car? City Council Votes to End a Sticker of Shame
01-18-2012
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New York Times
For a quarter-century, it has stood out as a scourge to New York City drivers, a scarlet letter in a bright hue, stuck onto the windows of vehicles whose owners neglected to participate in the ritualistic alternate-side parking dance.
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News Link • Politics: Democratic Campaigns
Poll Sees Shift in Independent Vote, a Hurdle for Obama
01-18-2012
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New York Times
President Obama opens his re-election bid facing significant obstacles among independent voters, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll, with the critical piece of the electorate that cemented his victory four years ago open to denying
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News Link • Corruption
In MF Global, JPMorgan again at center of a financial failure
01-18-2012
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Reuters
In late October, as MF Global Holdings Ltd teetered toward bankruptcy, Jon Corzine phoned his close-knit circle of Wall Street friends for help.
His firm, facing demands from customers and other firms for cash, needed to sell billions of dollars i
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Federal Reserve
U.S. charges Chinese man with NY Fed software theft
01-18-2012
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Reuters
U.S. prosecutors arrested a Chinese computer programmer on charges he stole software code valued at nearly $10 million from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
Bo Zhang, 32, of Queens, New York, worked as a contract programmer at the bank. He wa
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Death Penalty
Justices Rule for Inmate After Mailroom Mix-Up
01-18-2012
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New York Times
The Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that an Alabama death row inmate who missed a filing deadline thanks to a mix-up in the mailroom of a prominent New York law firm must be given another chance.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • United Nations
THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE condemns AGENDA 21!
011812
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www.varight.com
Activists: You have a powerful ally in your fight against Agenda 21! The Republican National Committee! The RNC at its Winter meeting condemned Agenda 21, called it socialistic, said ICLEI helps implement it, said it is a threat to national sovere
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Sandy Sanders
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Situation Deteriorates, Pakistan Tells US Envoy to Stay Away
01-18-2012
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news.antiwar.com
The US State Department is reporting today that a request to allow Special Envoy Marc Grossman to visit Pakistan has been turned down by the Pakistani government, citing the “prevailing situation” in the nation.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Internet
Compromise ‘Unlikely’ as Protests Grow Against SOPA
01-18-2012
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news.antiwar.com
RIAA - Criticism 'Dangerous' and Bad for Democracy - Public criticism has taken Congress entirely by surprise, and has officials scrambling to revise the bill just enough to get the major Internet companies it threatens to stop their public op
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - International
Sinking the Petrodollar in the Persian Gulf
01-18-2012
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original.antiwar.com
These days, with a crisis atmosphere growing in the Persian Gulf, a little history lesson about the U.S. and Iran might be just what the doctor ordered. Here, then, are a few high- (or low-) lights from their relationship over the last half-century-p
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Off Grid Living - Survival Prepping
Keeping Chickens in a Backyard Flock
01-18-2012
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www.survivalblog.com
In a SHTF scenario, already having a small flock of laying chickens will be of great benefit for everyone from an urban backyard to a rural, backwoods bunker setting. They are easy to care for, provide eggs and eventually, can grace your stewpot
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Internet
Why We’ve Censored Wired.com
01-18-2012
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www.wired.com
We’ve blacked out the headlines on our website homepage today as part of a global internet protest against two radical anti-piracy bills pending in Congress " legislation that threatens to usher in a chilling internet censorship regime here in the U.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Free Speech
Internet Censorship Bill Authored by Bob Goodlatte...
11-18-2011
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Daily Paul
...FYI That's the Incumbent Karen Kwiatkowski Is Running Against!
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Free Speech
SOPA: Co-sponsors Defect, Backtrack After Blackout
01-18-2012
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www.prisonplanet.com
Cockroaches scatter as spotlight is pointed at Internet censorship bill
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • European Union
EU Fiscal Union Treaty to be Forced Through Without Referendums
01-18-2012
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www.prisonplanet.com
Nigel Farage exposes the EU technocrats’ latest effort to entrench its dictatorship.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Treasury dips into pension funds to avoid debt
01-18-2012
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news.yahoo.com
The Treasury on Tuesday started dipping into federal pension funds in order to give the Obama administration more credit to pay government bills.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - International
IMF seeks more funds
01-18-2012
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www.reuters.com
The International Monetary Fund is seeking to more than double its war chest by raising $600 billion in new resources to help countries deal with the fallout of the euro zone debt crisis, but the United States and other countries are throwing up road
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Gun Rights
MILLER: Emily gets her gun, Part 2 (Washington Times Senior Editor goes through process)
01-18-2012
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www.washingtontimes.com
Over the past couple months, I’ve been trying to get a legal gun in the District. I always knew this would be a challenge, but I had no idea how time-consuming it would be to complete all 17 steps the city requires. I’m not even halfway done.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Today on LewRockwell.com - Wednesday 01-18-2012
01-18-2012
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LewRockwell.com
Who Rules America? - Tough on Crime? No, Tough on Freedom - Global Warming, Air Pollution, and Libertarianism And Ron Paul. Article by Walter Block - The Whole World Needs a Ron Paul - T-Junk - More Reasons To Save Your Nickels
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Events: Arizona
“Conservatives” Angling for a NEW National Tax?
01-18-2012
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www.SonoranAlliance.Com
Right when we should be CUTTING spending (not just the rate of increase, but ACTUAL spending) and lowering taxes, certain elements of the RNC and “think tanks” are angling not just to keep existing spending and taxes going but ADD an entirely NEW fed
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Free Speech
STOP PIPA (Senate 968) & SOPA (HR 3261)
01-18-2012
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www.craigslist.com
From Craigslist in response to internet blackout: Imagine a world without craigslist, Wikipedia, Google, [your favorite sites here]...News Corp, RIAA, MPAA, Nike, Sony, Comcast, VISA & others want to make that world your reality.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Political Theory
Gingrich Pledges To Kill Enemies Of The United States
01-18-2012
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www.jonathanturley.org
I have previously questioned the historical and legal views of Newt Gingrich. However, we may agree on one recent historical claim: that Andrew Jackson tended to address enemies by killing them. As shown in the video below, Gingrich embraced this app
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Ron Paul is the Only Electable Candidate for President by Szandor Blestman
01-18-2012
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szandorblestman.com
"It is, after all, a matter of numbers and if there is overwhelming support then even the most corrupt organization starts to worry about being too obvious with their cheating and fixing of elections."
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Drug War
Don't think the drug war is the new Jim Crow? Then read this book
01-18-2012
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www.jonathanturley.org
...although white Americans are far and away the nation's biggest dealers and users of illegal drugs, African-Americans are far and away the ones most likely to be jailed for drug crimes
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Edible Microchips, Biometric Identity Systems And Mind Reading Computers
01-18-2012
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endoftheamericandream.com
As technology continues to advance at an exponential rate, will we someday find ourselves living in a "scientific dictatorship" where virtually everything that we do, say and think is monitored and controlled by technology?
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Israel - Palestine
Israeli Army Says Nuclear Iran Would Hinder Military Aggression in Gaza, Lebanon
01-18-2012
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antiwar.com
The admission discredits Israel's stated claims that Iran presents a threat to their existence
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Prototype GHOST military watercraft claims a world's first
01-18-2012
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www.gizmag.com
GHOST is a prototype military boat, that is claimed to be the world's first super-cavitating watercraft
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Victorinox packs a 1 TB SSD into a pocket-knife
01-18-2012
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www.gizmag.com
Not all that long ago the availability of a 1TB solid state drive (SSD) was big news, now you can fit them in your pocket ... or in this case, your pocket-knife.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The Middle Class Disappears, Rise of the Praetorian Class
01-18-2012
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www.marketoracle.co.uk
The Economic Class, at least in the United States, has historically been the numerically dominant group, although in recent decades its dominance has noticeably waned.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Killing Dissent with War
01-18-2012
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www.fff.org/Jacob Hornberger
A point made by James Madison might well explain the U.S. government’s strangulation of Iran’s economy with ever-tightening sanctions: “Among the Romans it was a standing maxim to excite a war, whenever a revolt was apprehended.”
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News Link • Events: Arizona
Debate Watching Party - Hancock's - Thurs, Jan 19th, 6 p.m. til??
01-18-2012
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www.meetup.com/RonPaulPhoenix
CNN to Host Final Debate Ahead of Crucial South Carolina Primary
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News Link • Currencies
Larry Summers Being Considered For World Bank Chief
01/18/2012
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Jillian Berman, Huffington post
President Barack Obama is considering naming Larry Summers, his former top economic advisor, as head of the World Bank, Bloomberg reports, citing "two people familiar with the matter."
Summers, a former U.S. Treasury Secretary, Harvard Presiden
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Hugo Tellez
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News Link • Events: Arizona
“Conservatives” Angling for a NEW National Tax?
01-18-2012
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www.SonoranAlliance.Com
Right when we should be CUTTING spending (not just the rate of increase, but ACTUAL spending) and lowering taxes, certain elements of the RNC and “think tanks” are angling not just to keep existing spending and taxes going but ADD an entirely NEW fed
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Legislative Mischief
HOT: Ron Paul NDAA House Floor Speech 1/18/2012 (video)
01-18-2012
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YouTube via RonPaulSocialNetwork.com post (YEAH!)
"What a way to usher in the New Year." The Doc at his finest. Freedom's time has come ONCE AGAIN!
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • World News
Kim Jong Il's other son expects North Korean regime to fail, journalist says
01-18-2012
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www.cnn.com
Kim Jong Nam, the eldest son, is the half-brother of Kim Jong Un, the new leader of North Korea. Kim Jong Nam believes his youngest brother will fail as the "supreme leader" of the reclusive state, according to the book's author, Yoji Gomi.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Energy
Obama to Reject Keystone Pipeline
01-18-2012
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slatest.slate.com
Administration expected to make it official at an afternoon press conference.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
China Brings US Treasury Holdings To One Year Low, Russia Cuts 50% In One Year
01-18-2012
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www.zerohedge.com
Today's TIC data confirmed what Zero Hedge readers have now known for quite some time: namely that foreigners are selling US paper
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - International
The Final Countdown…
01-18-2012
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www.sovereignman.com
"If government wishes to see a depression ended as quickly as possible, and the economy returned to normal prosperity, what course should it adopt? The first and clearest injunction is: don’t interfere with the market’s adjustment process." Rothbard
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News Link • Events: Arizona
Obama to visit Phoenix area on Jan. 25
01-18-2012
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www.azcentral.com
WASHINGTON " President Barack Obama will travel to the Phoenix area on Wednesday, Jan. 25, a White House official confirmed Wednesday. The president’s trip to Arizona will be part of a five-state, three-day swing across the country that will begin th
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Free Speech
Dead On Arrival: SOPA Shelved Indefinitely, Obama Succumbs to Pressure, Issues Official Veto Threat
01-18-2012
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www.lewrockwell.com/Mac Slavo
Amid significant pressure from tens of thousands of internet users and major web behemoths like Google, Facebook, and Reddit, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) is, in its current form, Dead on Arrival:
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
More South Carolina State Senators Endorse Ron Paul for President
01-18-2012
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www.ronpaul.com
South Carolina State Senators Kevin Bryant, Lee Bright and Daniel Verdin join Sen. Tom Davis in endorsing Ron Paul for President!
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Is Newt Gingrich surging in South Carolina?
01-18-2012
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The Washington Post
Talk radio seems to think so, judging from the blanket coverage given to Gingrich for much of the day Tuesday by Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and other radio hosts for what they widely deemed to be his stellar performance in Monday’s televised debate.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Nancy Pelosi: GOP knows Mitt Romney can’t win
01-18-2012
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www.politico.com
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi on Tuesday launched political grenades at Mitt Romney, arguing that Republicans haven’t coalesced behind the GOP frontrunner because they don’t believe he can beat President Barack Obama in November.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Seriously?
MSNBC Defends Ron Paul on AP Hit Piece!
01-18-2012
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ronpaulflix.com via Rick Fisk Tweet
THANK YOU to Lawrence O'Donnell for clearing the air on Congressman Pauls '1st Class flights at the taxpayers expense' Associated Press MISREPRESENTATION.
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
DEA agent wounds self, video goes viral, agent sues DEA, world laughs
01-18-2012
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Wall Street Journal
A federal agent who accidentally shot himself while lecturing children on gun safety lost his appeal Tuesday in a lawsuit over release of the video that subjected him to ridicule on the Internet and late-night talk shows.
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • Iran
Russia says strike on Iran would be 'catastrophe'
01-18-2012
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The Time of India
Russia on Wednesday warned that a military strike on Iran would be a "catastrophe" with the severest consequences which risked inflaming existing tensions between Sunni and Shiite Muslims.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Iran
Iran Mocks US With Toy Drone
01-18-2012
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ABC News (video)
The Iranian government, which captured a U.S. stealth drone in December, has agreed to give the top-secret spy craft back, but with a catch. Instead of the original RQ-170 Sentinel drone, the Islamic Republic said it will send President Obama a tiny
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