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Date Sent: 2012-03-01
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Thursday, March 1, 2012 PM edition |
To Get Kids To Class, LA Softens Its Hard Line -- Michigan's Hostile Takeover Sale
Military Dogs Will No Longer Be Considered “Equipment” if Bill Passes -- Andrew Breitbart dead at 43 -- Egypt’s Copts protest “disappearance of girls” -- Ron Paul: My Message Is the Same No Matter Where I Go -- Ron Paul
and Fed Chairman Agree to Discuss Competing Currencies -- The great
government hoax of public safety -- March 1st, 2012 - Steve Neil - Listen Live on LRN.FM,M-F, 9-Noon (EST) -- Ron Paul: Fiat Money
Experiment Will End Badly -- Romney’s Budget-Balancing for Dummies --
Wikileaks vs. Stratfor: Pursue The Truth, Not Its Messenger -- Supermaxed Out: Adios to an Isolation Facility -- California Government Has No Idea Fracking Is Happening -- Two more Americans killed by Afghan gunman, officials say -- Occupy Rallies Against Powerful Right-Wing Group You've Never Heard Of -- Personal Income Revised Upward — Way Upward -- Cruise passengers
reach port, tell of panic -- Romney Didn't Know What The Blunt Amendment
Was -- "It's Just Not Right": The Failures of Alabama's
Self-Deportation Experiment -- Israel raids West Bank TV stations -- Privacy betrayed: Twitter sells multi-billion tweet archive -- Israel slammed over rough justice for Palestinian prisoners -- In Mock Village, A New Afghan Mission Takes Shape -- Russia,
China Confirm Boycott of NATO’s "The Enemies of Syria" Conference --
Did Germany Approve Bailout to Force Greece Out of Eurozone? -- West Regards Majority of Syrians as "Non-People" -- Ron Paul threatens to disrupt Wash. GOP caucus -- Readying the Greek Corpse for Burial - by Stephen Lendman -- Egypt lets our agent provocateurs go -- Only 19% of Israelis support non-US-backed Iran strike -- Interpol website suffers 'Anonymous cyber-attack' -- Netanyahu will ask Obama to threaten Iran strike -- Border Patrol responds to immigrant abuse claims
AZ: Arizona Breakfast Club this
Saturday, March 3rd
Freedom Law School's 2012 Freedom Rally - March 16-19 - Crowne Plaza Hotel - Irvine, CA
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
To Get Kids To Class, LA Softens Its Hard Line
03-01-2012
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by Krissy Clark
Los Angeles is easing its stance on truancy. For the past decade, a tough city ordinance slapped huge fines on students for even one instance of skipping school or being late.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Michigan's Hostile Takeover
03-01-2012
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By Paul Abowd
A new "emergency" law backed by right-wing think tanks is turning Michigan cities over to powerful managers who can sell off city hall, break union contracts, privatize services"and even fire elected officials.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Animals and Pets
Military Dogs Will No Longer Be Considered “Equipment” if Bill Passes
03-01-2012
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dogster.com
Legislation introduced this week would finally take U.S. military working dogs (MWDs) out of the category of “equipment” and make them bonafide “Canine Members of the Armed Forces.” If it passes, these loyal four-legged heroes who risk their lives fo
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • World News
Andrew Breitbart dead at 43
03-01-2012
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www.foxnews.com
Widely read conservative Internet publisher Andrew Breitbart, whose flare for battle with politicians and the mainstream media earned him a reputation as one of the nation's most influential commentators, died Thursday.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Conferences
Freedom Law School's 2012 Freedom Rally - March 16-19 - Crowne Plaza Hotel - Irvine, CA
03-01-2012
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www.freedomlawconference.org
This 4-day event includes an in depth class on Avoiding and Defeating IRS Criminal Charges, two keynote banquet speakers, 14 of the most exciting Freedom speakers in the country, and a seminar on Stopping Mortgage Fraud.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Marriage
Egypt’s Copts protest “disappearance of girls”
03-01-2012
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Bikya Masr
A number of Egypt Coptic Christian protesters organized a demonstration on Tuesday in front of Parliament to protest what they called “the disappearance and abduction of Coptic girls,” where the families of the missing girls took part in the protest
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Ron Paul: My Message Is the Same No Matter Where I Go
03-01-2012
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By RonPaul.com
Ron Paul: My Message Is the Same No Matter Where I Go
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Ron Paul and Fed Chairman Agree to Discuss Competing Currencies
03-01-2012
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By RonPaul.com
Ron Paul and Fed Chairman Agree to Discuss Competing Currencies
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Misinformation
The great government hoax of public safety
03-01-2012
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by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
As the tyranny of destructive government envelops our once-free society, have you noticed how oppression, censorship and government aggression against the people is always defended as somehow protecting public safety?
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
The Ayatollah Is Right About One Thing: Nuclear Weapons Are Sinful
03-01-2012
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By Robert Scheer
Given my own deep prejudice toward religious zealotry, it has not been difficult for me to accept the conventional American view that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the supreme theocratic ruler of Iran, is a dangerous madman
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Foreign Policy
U.S. Concerned about Alleged Iran's Links with Latin American Drug Lords
03-01-2012
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Xinhua Web Editor: Zhangjin
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Wednesday expressed concern about allegations that some Latin American drug trafficking organizations are linked with Hezbollah and Iran.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Wikileaks vs. Stratfor: Pursue The Truth, Not Its Messenger
03-01-2012
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By Amy Goodman
WikiLeaks, the whistle-blower website, has again published a massive trove of documents, this time from a private intelligence firm known as Stratfor.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Ron Paul's new ad: Is he attacking his 'wingman'?
03-01-2012
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By Peter Grier, Staff
The latest Ron Paul ad goes after all three of his rivals in the GOP presidential race. But it's not as hard on Mitt Romney. Maybe Rick Santorum is on to something with his 'wingman' comment.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
End of the Line
03-01-2012
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Charlie LeDuff.
DRIVING THROUGH JANESVILLE, WISCONSIN, IN A DOWNPOUR, looking past the wipers and through windows fogged up with cigarette smoke, Main Street appears to be melting away.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Supermaxed Out: Adios to an Isolation Facility
03-01-2012
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By James Ridgeway and Jean Casella
Supermax prisons have been a growth industry in the United States since at least 1989.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Government
California Government Has No Idea Fracking Is Happening
03-01-2012
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By Kiera Butler
There isn't supposed to be much fracking in California. In the past, the state's Division of Oil, Gas, and Geothermal Resources (DOGGR) has said that it "does not believe that fracking is widely used" in California.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Afghanistan
Two more Americans killed by Afghan gunman, officials say
03-01-2012
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latimes.com
Two American soldiers were killed Thursday by a civilian employee of the Afghan army, according to Afghan officials.
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News Link • Activism
Occupy Rallies Against Powerful Right-Wing Group You've Never Heard Of
03-01-2012
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By Josh Harkinson
Today, occupiers in 80 American cities will hold the movement's largest coordinated demonstration since fall: a huge protest against the American Legislative Exchange Council.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Personal Income Revised Upward " Way Upward
03-01-2012
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By Kevin Drum
The BEA announced today that GDP in the fourth quarter of 2011 went up 3.0%, not 2.8%. That's good news, but nothing super special. It's a pretty small correction, really.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Transportation
Cruise passengers reach port, tell of panic
03-01-2012
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(AP) VICTORIA
Hot and tired passengers disembarking from a disabled cruise ship Thursday in the Seychelles said they had prepared to abandon ship when fire broke out in the engine room three days ago, leaving the vessel adrift in waters prowled by pirates.
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News Link • Immigration
"It's Just Not Right": The Failures of Alabama's Self-Deportation Experiment
03-01-2012
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By Paul Reyes
What happens when outside agitators work with state politicians to pass the nation's most draconian anti-immigrant law yet? The Cotton State learned the hard way
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Israel - Palestine
Israel raids West Bank TV stations
03-01-2012
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RT
Israeli troops have raided two Palestinian television stations in the West Bank, seizing transmitters and other equipment.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Privacy Rights
Privacy betrayed: Twitter sells multi-billion tweet archive
03-01-2012
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RT
Twitter has sold billions of archived tweets believed to have vanished forever. A privacy row has erupted as hundreds of companies queue up to purchase users’ personal information from the new database.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Israel - Palestine
Israel slammed over rough justice for Palestinian prisoners
03-01-2012
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RT
Human rights groups have lashed Israel for its practice of keeping Palestinian suspects in prison indefinitely without trial. Hunger strikes have become a tactic of last resort to resist the Israeli judicial system.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Israel
Israelis against unilateral strike on Iran " poll
03-01-2012
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RT
Only one fifth of Israelis support a unilateral strike on Iran without the backing of the US. However, the vast majority of Israelis are against such an audacious move, saying they will “have to live with consequences,” a poll says.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Iran sanctions disrupting global oil supplies " US DOE
03-01-2012
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RT
Western-imposed sanctions are disrupting Iran's oil exports - and further pressure could affect global oil markets, says a report by the Energy Information Administration, an analytical agency of the US Department of Energy.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Evangelicals Still Cool On Romney, Exit Poll Analysis Shows
03-01-2012
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by Liz Halloran
A next-day analysis of the Republican presidential primaries in Michigan and Arizona won by Mitt Romney underscores one of his weaknesses with his party's base
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Was the Silver Smackdown a Retaliatory Strike?
02-29-2012
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NeoAbolition.com
During a House Committee on Financial Services hearing held at 10am on February 29, 2012, Rep. Ron Paul questioned Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on inflation, currency, and (real) money. At 9am, silver was trading at $37.50/oz. By 11am, ex
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News Link • Military
In Mock Village, A New Afghan Mission Takes Shape
03-01-2012
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by Tom Bowman
At the Fort Polk military base in the pine forests of central Louisiana, the Army has created a miniature version of Afghanistan " with mock villages and American soldiers working alongside Afghan role-players.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
State Of GOP Race: No Momentum For Candidates
03-01-2012
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by Mara Liasson
In the Michigan Republican primary Tuesday, Mitt Romney had a near-death experience, but he squeaked out a narrow victory over Rick Santorum.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Privacy Rights
How To Adjust Your Privacy Settings, Before Google's Big Shift
03-01-2012
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by Bill Chappell
News that Google will place its dozens of services under one privacy policy " a change that also means the company will compile and collate each user's data from all those products
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Is Rick Santorum Missing JFK's Point On Religion?
03-01-2012
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by Barbara Bradley Hagerty
When GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum was growing up, he says, John F. Kennedy was a hero in his Catholic home.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • World News
Russia, China Confirm Boycott of NATO’s "The Enemies of Syria" Conference
03-01-2012
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by Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D.
Top US officials have called for the urgent provision of weapons, intelligence and funds to the Syrian opposition for use against President Bashar al-Assad.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama Issues ‘Policy Directive’ Exempting American Citizens From Indefinite Detention
03-01-2012
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by Paul Joseph Watson
Skeptics fear future administration could still incarcerate US citizens under NDAA
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Robert Lee
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News Link • European Union
Did Germany Approve Bailout to Force Greece Out of Eurozone?
03-01-2012
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by grtv
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is urging her lawmakers to support the new rescue package for Greece.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • World News
West Regards Majority of Syrians as "Non-People"
03-01-2012
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by grtv
Syria has successfully held a referendum on a constitution, but been hit with new sanctions by the EU anyway.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Ron Paul threatens to disrupt Wash. GOP caucus
03-01-2012
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CHRIS GRYGIEL
Ron Paul's presidential campaign on Wednesday threatened to fight the seating of some Washington delegates to the Republican National Convention.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Curing PTSD
03-01-2012
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arclein
People who survive a painful event should express their feelings soon after so the memory isn’t “sealed over” and repressed, which could lead to post-traumatic stress disorder.
In recent years, CISD has be
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News Link • Science
Leap Year and Calender Reform
03-01-2012
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arclein
It is estimated that 4 million people share Flemming's birthday, including celebrities like rapper Ja Rule, motivational speaker Tony Robbins and actor Antonio Sabato Jr., who said in 2003 (a few months before his "eighth birthday") that he never
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Flatworm Immortality
03-01-2012
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arclein
The researchers found that flatworms can continuously maintain the length of a crucial part of their DNA, known as telomeres, during regeneration.
Dr Aboobaker's team studied two types of planarian " those that reproduce sexually, like humans, an
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robert klein
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News Link • Science
Fragment of Starchild FOXP2 Gene Isolated
03-01-2012
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arclein
Because genetics is the math of biology, the Starchild’s DNA provided the only means to overcome the mainstream explanation that it has to be a one-in-a-billion freak of Nature. Unfortunately, we had to wait nearly a decade while the technology for r
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News Link • Anonymous
Interpol website suffers 'Anonymous cyber-attack'
03-01-2012
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Ben Quinn via The Guardian
Interpol's website appears to have been the victim of a cyber-attack after the international police agency announced the arrests of 25 suspected members of the hacking activist group Anonymous in Europe and South America.
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News Link • Israel
Netanyahu will ask Obama to threaten Iran strike
02-29-2012
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Barak Ravid via PrisonPlanet.con
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to publicly harden his line against Iran during a meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama in Washington on March 5, according to a senior Israeli official.
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News Link • Israel
’19% of Israelis support non-US-backed Iran strike’
02-29-2012
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The RawStory.com
Only 19 percent of Israelis support an attack against Iran without the backing of the United States, a new poll released on Wednesday found.
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News Link • Police State
Border Patrol responds to immigrant abuse claims
02-29-2012
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The RawStory.com
The US Border Patrol recently ordered an investigation into allegations that its agents were mistreating illegal immigrants entering the United States, said Michael Fisher, the agency’s chief.
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