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Date Sent: 2012-05-06
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Sunday, May 6, 2012 |
Army manual for re-education camps applies to US citizens -- FBI: We need wiretap-ready Web sites
Facebook Backdoor Interception: FBI wants P2P and social media
wiretap-friendly -- Clarity on Citizens Rights -- American jihad or the Osama effect: Has US become uglier & more corrupt power? -- Gary Johnson Wins LP
Presidential Nomination On First Ballot, Says the Goal is to Win -- Everyone Has Been Hacked.
Now What? -- A single stem cell
mutation triggers fibroid tumors -- DHS Muscles the Great Lakes --
GOP Threw 2012 Election to Obama in 2009, Multi-billion dollar ponzi
scheme involving Romney and Son -- Federal
court to consider legality of NYPD's "stop and frisk" -- Labor Dept.
trumpets declining unemployment while US labor force participation
at 30-year low -- UN warns of changing nature of global terrorism -- Are Obama And Romney The Same Guy? --
Landmark Lawsuit by US Home Owners Implicates Obama
AZ: The Bill of Rights Comedy
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News Link • Military
Army manual for re-education camps applies to US citizens
05-05-2012
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http://rt.com
After reporting this week on a Pentagon-created plan for interning activists at re-education camps, questions were asked about the US Army manual that allegedly outlines the resettling of US citizens. Can Americans be sent to propaganda prisons?
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Internet
FBI: We need wiretap-ready Web sites - now
05-04-2012
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CNET
The FBI is asking Internet companies not to oppose a controversial proposal that would require firms, including Microsoft, Facebook, Yahoo, and Google, to build in backdoors for government surveillance.
In meetings with industry representatives, the
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Ronald Bogner
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Facebook Backdoor Interception: FBI wants P2P and social media wiretap-friendly
05-05-2012
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http://rt.com
The US is preparing to face FBI-drafted legislation enabling it to monitor any personal communication activities in the web.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gun Rights
Clarity on Citizens Rights
05/06/2012
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Tom Rhodes
“It is unclear how disarming law abiding citizens would better protect them from the dangers and threats posed by those who would flout the law.” ~ Gov. Rick Scott, 2012
That was the response to the Mayor of Tampa’s request to have the Florida Gov
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Matt Schnackenberg
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
American jihad or the Osama effect: Has US become uglier & more corrupt power?
05-05-2012
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Bennett Voyles, The Times of India
Despite two disastrous wars, hundreds of thousands of innocent people slaughtered , and hundreds of billions of dollars wasted or stolen - all in pursuit of a loosely organised enemy that history suggests can seldom be thwarted by military means the
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Archaeology
Clovis Prehistory Unearthed
05-05-2012
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arclein
The Clovis people, whose tools were known for their distinctive "fluted" points, were once thought to be the original settlers of North America about 13,000 years ago. Over the past few years, however, scattered evidence has hinted at several earli
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Self Assembling Plastic Nanofibers
05-05-2012
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arclein
Not only were the fibers were found to self-assemble between the electrodes when triggered by a flash of light, but they are also able to transport current densities approaching that of copper wire. These light and flexible "supramolecular” structur
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robert klein
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News Link • China
Chinese Dam Building Boom
05-05-2012
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arclein
Yet, China has stepped up its reengineering of river flows in two ways: by portentously shifting its focus from internal rivers to international rivers; and by graduating from building large dams to building megadams.
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robert klein
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News Link • Politics: Libertarian Campaigns
Gary Johnson Wins LP Presidential Nomination On First Ballot, Says the Goal is to Win
05-05-2012
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Independent Politics
The former Governor of New Mexico, Gary Johnson, has won the Presidential nomination of the Libertarian Party on the first ballot with over 70% of the vote. Facing 3 opponents in Lee Wrights, Carl Person, and Jim Burns
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News Link • Climate Change
How Much Will Earth's Seas Rise? Answers Lacking, Scientists Warn
05-05-2012
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http://www.livescience.com, Wynne Parry
With a significant portion of the world's population living within close proximity to the oceans, often in large cities, rising sea levels bring the potential for devastating consequences.
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News Link • Racism
9-Month-Olds Show Racial Bias When Looking at Faces
05-05-2012
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http://www.livescience.com, Wynne Parry
Adults have more difficulty recognizing faces that belong to people of another race, and this deficit appears to start early.
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News Link • Geology
Cypress Trees Saw Rupturing of Earth's Supercontinents
05-05-2012
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http://www.livescience.com, Wynne Parry
Early members of an ancient family of trees, the cypresses, grew on the supercontinent Pangaea, and when this giant continent split apart, it shaped the future of these trees, according to research that examined the evolution of these trees, which to
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News Link • Transportation
Obese Drivers Less Likely to Buckle Up: Study
05-05-2012
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http://www.bio-medicine.org, ScoutNews
Obese drivers are less likely than normal-weight drivers to use their seat belts, a new study shows.
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
A single stem cell mutation triggers fibroid tumors
05-05-2012
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http://www.bio-medicine.org, Marla Paul
Fibroid uterine tumors affect an estimated 15 million women in the United States, causing irregular bleeding, anemia, pain and infertility.
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News Link • Agriculture
Different recipes for success in the world of plants
05-05-2012
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http://www.bio-medicine.org, Tilo Arnhold
In order to prevail against native plants, non-native plant species develop special strategies.
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News Link • Animals and Pets
What is your dog thinking? Brain scans unleash canine secrets in Emory study
05-05-2012
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http://phys.org, by Emory University
When your dog gazes up at you adoringly, what does it see? A best friend? A pack leader? A can opener?
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News Link • Death
Does Death Exist?
05-05-2012
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http://www.robertlanzabiocentrism.com, robertlanza
Many of us fear death. We believe in death because we have been told we will die. We associate ourselves with the body, and we know that bodies die. But a new scientific theory suggests that death is not the terminal event we think.
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News Link • Transportation
Single-inlet electric vehicle charging to showcase in LA
05-05-2012
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http://phys.org, by Nancy Owano
Big names in global car manufacturers have announced a common method for charging electric vehicles.
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News Link • Homeland Security
DHS Muscles the Great Lakes
05-02-2012
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Margaret Schaut
Ore Docks and other Lakes businesses targeted by Homeland Security for free ‘security functions’ around the Great Lakes.Over the last few years, Michigan and the Great Lakes has seen a devastating surge in policing action by the Department of Homelan
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Margaret Schaut
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
GOP Threw 2012 Election to Obama in 2009, Multi-billion dollar ponzi scheme involving Romney and Son
05-04-2012
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Margaret Schaut
As far back as 2009, nearly concurrent with the Bernie Madoff Ponzi scandal, the GOP knew, beyond any doubt, that Mitt Romney was seriously involved with a Ponzi scheme, to the tune of $8.5 BILLION dollars.
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Margaret Schaut
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News Link • Death
Beastie Boys Co-Founder Adam Yauch Dead at 47
05-05-2012
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http://www.rollingstone.com, By Rolling Stone
Adam Yauch, one-third of the pioneering hip-hop group the Beastie Boys, has died at the age of 47
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Federal court to consider legality of NYPD's "stop and frisk"
05-05-2012
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http://rt.com
The controversial stop-and-frisk technique used on hundreds of thousands of minorities in New York City could soon be brought before a federal judge to decide on the constitutionality of the NYPD’s popular practice.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Employment & Jobs
Labor Dept. trumpets declining unemployment while US labor force participation at 30-year low
05-05-2012
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http://rt.com
The latest jobs figures from the US Labor Department make America’s current unemployment crisis seem almost over.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • United Nations
UN warns of changing nature of global terrorism
05-05-2012
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http://rt.com
The UN Security Council has warned of “the changing nature and character” of international terrorism, with terror groups forging close ties with organized crime and using the Internet to incite and recruit sympathizers, and to prepare their attacks.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Dangerous glass fibers in cigarettes worsen lung damage for smokers
05-05-2012
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http://www.naturalnews.com, S. D. Wells
Shocking new research reveals that a specific type of lung cancer many smokers develop comes from tiny tears in their lung tissue caused by microscopic glass fibers, also known as glass wool, found in many conventional cigarette filters.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Smartphones Will Become the Only Device Hardcore Gamers Need
05-05-2012
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http://www.popsci.com, By Scott Alexander
When Sony, Microsoft or Nintendo introduces a new videogame console, its obsolescence within six years is more or less assumed.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Political Parties
Are Obama And Romney The Same Guy?
05-05-2012
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http://www.npr.org, by Linton Weeks
Barack Obama and Mitt Romney just may be the same person. Think about it. Have you ever seen the two of them in the same limo?
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Agriculture
Gardening with Epsom Salt
05-05-2012
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http://wakeup-world.com, By saltworks.us
Epsom salt has become a popular and well-reputed supplement in organic gardening.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Housing
Landmark Lawsuit by US Home Owners Implicates Obama
05-05-2012
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http://wakeup-world.com, By Madison Ruppert
A new lawsuit, which is bordering on the unbelievable, implicates the Obama administration and some of the world’s largest banks in the largest international money laundering case in history.
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Robert Lee
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Opinion • Humor
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
May 6, 2012 Edition
05-04-2012
John Semmens
Obama Autobiography Revealed to Be Mostly Fictitious
President Obama's putative autobiography"Dreams from My Father"is apparently mostly “made up stuff.” Nonexistent characters and imaginary events comprise the bulk of the content. The only verifi
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News Link • Drug War
The Everyday Evil of America's Torture State
05-04-2012
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by William N. Grigg (Pro Liberate)
After Daniel Chong was arrested in a federal drug raid, he wasn’t taken to Gitmo. Instead, the Feds thoughtfully arranged to bring Gitmo to him, nearly torturing him to death in the process.
Chong, a senior at the University of California-San Dieg
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
Summit Could Mean Nazi Germany-Style Security On Trains
05-04-2012
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CBS News (video)
Some stations on the Metra Electric Line and South Shore Line could be shut down during the upcoming NATO summit, and passengers at other stations could face airport-style security screenings, due to the Secret Service security plan that could be rel
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Currencies
Bit Coins! The future of Money?
05-04-2012
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www.whatisthiscoinworth.info
Bitcoins has been the talk of the town amongst the supper geeky over the last year or so but this completely digital currency is starting to make headline in some big publications.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • WAR: About that War
A Decade of War " for What?
05-04-2012
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http://original.antiwar.com, by Patrick J. Buchana
"My fellow Americans, we have traveled through more than a decade under the dark cloud of war," said Barack Obama from Bagram Air Base.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Mississippi Teens Jailed After Video Recording Police Investigation From Balcony
05-03-2012
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Photography Is Not a Crime
2 teenagers were arrested after video recording a police investigation from their balcony. Police charged up the stairs to arrest the teens and burst through their apartment door without a warrant and charged them with disorderly conduct.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
TREASURY: Here's The True State Of The Economy Right Now
05-03-2012
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www.businessinsider.com
The US Treasury department has put out a new presentation on the state of the economy. It's fairly non-biased in its assessment of things.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • WAR: About that War
The Speech That Got JFK Murdered?
05-03-2012
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lewrockwell.com
Kennedy prepared this speech with only a handful of close, trusted aides ,and were careful to keep its contents secret from the national security establishment.
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News Link • Police State
We’re Almost There Now
05-03-2012
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lewrockwell.com
Now we can’t lawfully speak or peaceably assemble. Not within earshot or sight of those who rule us, at any rate.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Police State
Gov't seeks more than 1,700 secret warrants
05-03-2012
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wtop.com
FBI also made 16,511 national security letter requests for information on 7,201 people last year. The letters allow officials to collect virtually unlimited kinds of sensitive, private information like financial and phone records. That is down from 2
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Prefabricated Fascists: The FBI's Assembly-Line Provocateurs
05-03-2012
This Article written in 2009 seems eerily prophetic given the recent events involving J.T. Ready. A quote: "Ready ... is a pretty good candidate to be the next NSM figure outed as an asset of the Feds."
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News Link • Currencies
Old $50 bill found real, but not before bearer arrested
05-03-2012
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http://www.t-g.com, By DAVID MELSON
What officers thought was a counterfeit $50 bill turned out to be an old, legitimate bill, but the truth wasn't discovered until a man was mistakenly charged and jailed Friday.
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Wealthy Americans Queue to Give Up Their Passports
05-03-2012
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http://www.bloomberg.com, By Giles Broom
Rich Americans renouncing U.S. citizenship rose sevenfold since UBS AG (UBSN) whistle-blower Bradley Birkenfeld triggered a crackdown on tax evasion four years ago.
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News Link • Imperialism
Map: US bases encircle Iran
05-03-2012
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http://www.aljazeera.com,Ben Piven
Dozens of US and allied forces' military installations dot the region, from Oman, UAE and Kuwait to Turkey and Israel.
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News Link • Conspiracies
Justice Department to review handling of 80 rape cases in Missoula
05-03-2012
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Rawstory
The U.S. Department of Justice is investigating how rape cases in Missoula, Montana were being handled by local authorities.These is “serious concern” that 80 rape cases “were not being investigated in a prompt and adequate fashion.”
A number of t
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News Link • Drug War
Student forgotten in cell by DEA files $20 million torture lawsuit
05-03-2012
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Rawstory
Daniel Chong, the 23-year-old student at UC San Diego who was left in a Drug Enforcement Agency holding cell for 5 days without food or water, has filed a $20 million lawsuit against the agency. “The deprivation of food and water for four and one-hal
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News Link • TERRORISM
Unmasked: Meet The FBI's Bridge Bomb Plot Snitch
05-03-2012
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The Smoking Gun
The paid informant who helped orchestrate the FBI sting that resulted in the arrest of 5 for allegedly plotting to blow up an Ohio bridge is a convicted felon who was arrested on bad check and theft charges in the midst of his cooperation with federa
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
US military-industrial giant KBR in bidding to privatize British police forces
05-03-2012
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FOX News
Giant US military-industrial company Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR) is in the running to win a slice of a controversial contract to transform police forces in Britain. Hailed as the largest police privatization scheme in the UK, it has been suggested the
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News Link • Iran
Saudi Arabia warns Iran over Gulf islands, Bahrain
05-03-2012
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Reuters
Saudi Arabia repeated it would not tolerate threats to the Gulf Arab states' sovereignty, the latest warning to Iran after President Ahmadinejad's visit to an island claimed by both Tehran and the United Arab Emirates.
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News Link • Israel
Israel mobilizes the reserves
05-03-2012
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Times of Israel
The IDF has issued emergency call up orders to 6 reserve battalions in light of new dangers on the Egyptian and Syrian borders. And the Knesset has given the IDF permission to summon a further 16 reserve battalions
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