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Date Sent: 2012-08-05
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Saturday, August 4, 2012 |
UN adopts tough resolution on Syria -- Video: Government Claims It Owns All The Water
Lifeguard gets bill after ocean rescue -- Punk band Pussy Riot’s
courtroom drama grips Russia -- Man gets DUI floating down river on a
raft -- Toronto police sued for $1.4M over G20 arrest of any woman with ‘hairy legs’ -- The Militarization of U.S. Domestic Policing -- Attention, Mundanes: Don't 'Disrespect' Your Armed Overseers -- Raw Milk Farmer Michael Schmidt Raided ... Again -- Hispanic Journalism Organization Kicks Reporter Out of its "Open" Board Meeting -- At DEA, We Made the Drug Problem Worse, Not Better -- Candu and China Work on Thorium Fuel Cycle -- The Corruption Of America Is Complete -- $15 million up in smoke: Peruvian police burn record 50 tons of marijuana (PHOTOS) -- Israelis unite for major anti-govt demonstration --
Ebola at large? Prisoner with suspected case escapes Ugandan hospital
-- Bat diplomacy: Turks see red in Obama’s dubious photo -- Bazooka Economics -- Mad Dog Leaders Threaten Humanity -- Using Ozone to Clean Up Fracking -- Mars Rover Curiosity's Siblings: A Short History of Landings On Alien Planets
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News Link • United Nations
UN adopts tough resolution on Syria
08-04-2012
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http://www.rt.com
The UN General Assembly has voted in favor of a non-binding resolution on Syria pushed by several Arab states.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Government
Video-Government Claims It Owns All The Water
08-04-2012
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http://govtslaves.info
Many of the freedoms we enjoy here in the U.S. are quickly eroding as the nation transforms from the land of the free into the land of the enslaved, but what I’m about to share with you takes the assault on our freedoms to a whole new level.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Government
Lifeguard gets bill after ocean rescue
08-04-2012
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17-year-old John Clark, a senior at Hudson's Bay, didn't think twice about running into the ocean to save a drowning 12-year-old. But what he hasn't stopped thinking about, is the bill he received as a result of his effort.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Punk band Pussy Riot’s courtroom drama grips Russia
08-04-2012
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Reuters
Journalists, bloggers, relatives and supporters crowded into the courtroom for a hearing that included a “witness” who turned out to have viewed the incident online and another who declared the word “feminist” obscene if uttered in a church.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Man gets DUI floating down river on a raft
08-04-2012
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A Juneau man faces a rare DUI charge for allegedly having a 0.313 breath-alcohol content as he floated through Fairbanks on an inflatable raft Sunday night.
Alaska’s driving under the influence law applies to people operating motor vehicles, water
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News Link • Activism
Toronto police sued for $1.4M over G20 arrest any woman with ‘hairy legs’
08-04-2012
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They followed a profile was created by senior Toronto Police Service officers. That profile included people who have backpacks, lawyers’ numbers on their arms, people with Quebec license plates, speaking French, or wearing black clothing.
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Reference Link • Police State
The Militarization of U.S. Domestic Policing
George Mason University
Analyze the mechanisms through which the “protective state” " where the government utilizes its monopoly on force to protect citizens’ rights " devolves into a “predatory state” which undermines the rights of the populace.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Attention, Mundanes: Don't 'Disrespect' Your Armed Overseers
08-04-2012
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Lew Rockwell blog
"He said I need to get him here now or else,” Jaipersaud recalled. “I asked him if he was threatening me…he said, `No, I’m arresting you.’” The officer later explained he arrested her for being “disrespectful.” She spent 10 hours in jail
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News Link • Food
Raw Milk Farmer Michael Schmidt Raided ... Again
08-04-2012
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Lew Rockwell blog
He could be looking at 14 years in jail in connection with conspiracy charges in connection with the scrapie sheep case from last April. The agents didn't actually have any kind of indictment or charges, just a search warrant
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
Hispanic Journalism Organization Kicks Reporter Out of its "Open" Board Meeting
08-04-2012
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Photography Is Not a Crime
One of the nation’s largest journalism organizations, The National Association of Hispanic Journalists is coming under fire from its own members after a reporter and a videographer were kicked out of an open board meeting
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
At DEA, We Made the Drug Problem Worse, Not Better
08-04-2012
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The Agitator
The war on drugs has failed. Its failure has been so categorical and self-evident that the statement itself is bromidic. By any reasonable metric of success"addiction rates, violence, the availability of drugs in our schools"
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News Link • Food
Ginseng Fortified Milk improves Cognitive Function
08-04-2012
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arclein
They then rated the intensity of each attribute for five samples; the control; the control with ginseng extract, vanilla aroma, and sucralose added; the control with ginseng extract added; the control with vanilla and ginseng extract; and the low lac
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Bone Regeneration Improvement
08-04-2012
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arclein
“By stimulating the body to produce the bone-producing protein itself, using non-viral methods these negative side effects can be avoided and bone tissue growth is promoted efficiently and safely,” Professor O’Brien said.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Twelve Home Remedies That Work
08-04-2012
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arclein
After two months of wearing duct tape on a daily basis and using a pumice stone about once a week to exfoliate the dead skin, 85 percent of patients' warts were gone, whereas f
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Candu and China Work on Thorium Fuel Cycle
08-04-2012
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arclein
At present, private miners were allowed to extract rare earths from beach sand but not process radioactive monazite, which, under the Atomic Energy Act, was categorised as a ‘prescribed substance’ and the sole domain of the government.
Private m
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News Link • World News
Famed Spanish ex-judge Garzon to represent WikiLeaks founder Assange in extradition case
08-04-2012
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http://www.washingtonpost.com, By Associated Press
Famed former Spanish judge Baltasar Garzon says Julian Assange is neither a pirate nor a terrorist.
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News Link • Corruption
The Corruption Of America Is Complete
08-04-2012
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http://govtslaves.info, Lord Howard Hurts
The corruption of America is complete. The Congress is corrupt. The Supreme Court is corrupt, and the President is both corrupt and a fraud.
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News Link • Healthcare
Your Hair Can Tell a Lot About Your Health
08-04-2012
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http://wakeup-world.com, By Raluca Schachter
Conventional medicine treats the body as a bucket of molecules, tissues, organs that all have to be treated separately.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
The Wild & Wacky World of Detoxification " A Survival Guide
08-04-2012
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http://wakeup-world.com, By Victoria LaFont
I’ve rarely taught a class or had a consultation without discussing the subject of detoxification, or cleansing.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Drug War
$15 million up in smoke: Peruvian police burn record 50 tons of marijuana (PHOTOS)
08-04-2012
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http://www.rt.com
Over 200,000 marijuana plants have been destroyed in two regions of Peru.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Israel
Israelis unite for major anti-govt demonstration
08-04-2012
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http://www.rt.com
“The time has come for an all out war,” say Israeli students, social activists and the country’s movement for equality in military service laws.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Healthcare
Ebola at large? Prisoner with suspected case escapes Ugandan hospital
08-04-2012
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http://www.rt.com
A World Health Organization official has stated that the Ebola outbreak in Uganda is now “under control.”
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Obama Administration
Bat diplomacy: Turks see red in Obama’s dubious photo
08-04-2012
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http://www.rt.com
Holding a baseball bat in your hand while talking on the phone about a delicate international issue means you really like the person you are talking to.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Freedom's Phoenix
Freedom's Phoenix Digital Magazine - READY FOR DOWNLOAD - August 2012 Edition
07-05-2012
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Freedom's Phoenix Magazine
The August 2012 Edition of the Freedom's Phoenix Digital Magazine will feature, 'What Do We Do Now'? How do we prepare for a future, beyond the darkness that is surely coming, that will provide light? ; how are you going to survive; how are you prep
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Environment
Using Ozone to Clean Up Fracking
08-03-2012
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http://www.technologyreview.com, Kevin Bullis
Ecosphere's new technology reduces the use of chemicals and helps natural-gas companies recycle water.
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News Link • History
Mars Rover Curiosity's Siblings: A Short History of Landings On Alien Planets
08-03-2012
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http://www.popsci.com, By Clay Dillow
How humans have parachuted, retro-rocketed, and otherwise smashed really expensive equipment into faraway planetary bodies
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News Link • OLYMPICS London Summer 2012
How Science Predicts Which Olympic Events Will Be the Most Exciting to Watch
08-03-2012
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http://www.popsci.com, By Clay Dillow
You can't watch everything, so let an analysis of physics data guide you to this summer's most competitive events
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News Link • Energy
$3.2 million to develop battery management system for electric-car batteries
08-03-2012
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http://www.bio-medicine.org, Diana Lutz
The Department of Energy (DOE) announced Aug. 2 that a team of engineers at Washington University in St. Louis will receive $2 million to design a battery management system for lithium-ion batteries that will guarantee their longevity, safety and per
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News Link • Biology, Botany and Zoology
Crayfish species proves to be the ultimate survivor
08-03-2012
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http://www.bio-medicine.org,
One of the most invasive species on the planet is able to source food from the land as well as its usual food sources in the water, research from Queen Mary, University of London has found.
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News Link • Entertainment: Sports
Bigger, Faster, Stronger: Will Bionic Limbs Put the Olympics to Shame?
08-03-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By Jason Turbow
On Euston Road in London, about seven miles from where Oscar Pistorius will run in the Olympics atop legs of carbon fiber, is the Wellcome Collection, home to an array of science-based exhibits reflecting the influences of art, history and other aspe
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Cross Your Fingers: How to Watch NASA’s Mars Rover Land on Sunday
08-03-2012
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http://www.wired.com, Adam Mann
The moment is almost here. In just a couple days, NASA’s new Mars rover, Curiosity, will begin its descent to the Martian surface and hopefully start beaming back amazing images and data.
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Lasers, Cameras and Particle Detectors: Mars Rover’s Super High-Tech Science Gear
08-03-2012
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http://www.wired.com, Adam Mann
Assuming it safely passes through its terrifying and complex descent sequence, NASA’s newest rover, Curiosity, should get its wheels on the Martian surface in just two short days, at 10:32 p.m. Pacific on Aug. 5.
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Opinion • Humor
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
August 5, 2012 Edition
08-03-2012
John Semmens
Dems Move to Block Military Vote
In recent elections less than 5% of the ballots cast by active duty military personnel serving overseas arrived in time to be counted. Nevertheless, the Obama for America Campaign, the Democratic National Committee
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News Link • Communications
Study Reveals a Confused View of Mobile Phone Privacy and Security
08-03-2012
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http://www.technologyreview.com, Conor Myhrvold
Many users' perceptions are at odds with the realities, researchers show.
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News Link • Precious Metals
What's in your vault? Uncle Sam audits its stash of gold at the New York Fed
08-03-2012
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Los Angeles Times
The gold audit is a first for the institution and includes drilling into several hundred ingots. It could put the conspiracy theories to rest. For decades, the US government has stashed gold five stories beneath Manhattan in a vault under the Feder
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News Link • Activism
Paul Festival Commemorative Dime Cards Fundraiser - READY FOR PURCHASE NOW!
08-01-2012
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www.dailypaul.com
August 24-26, 2012 - Tampa State Fairgrounds, Tampa Florida - Music, Entertainment, Activism
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Donna Hancock
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Opinion • Iran
Ray McGovern: My Take
A Persian Gulf ‘Hot Line’ Proposed
08-02-2012
Ray McGovern
With tensions again rising in the Persian Gulf, an accident or provocation around the narrow Strait of Hormuz could precipitate a war. In this memo for President Obama, 11 former U.S. intelligence officials urge a U.S.-Iranian system for communicatio
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News Link • Revolving Door
The Revolving Door Keeps Spinning: Former Lockheed VP Given Prime Capitol Hill Post
07-27-2012
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John Amick
The Project on Government Oversight reports:
Ann Elise Sauer, who left Lockheed last year, is now the Republican staff director at the Senate Armed Services Committee. The Committee oversees military spending, including major weapons systems that ar
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
PMI: US Manufacturing Growth Hits A Three Year Low
08-02-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Eric Platt
The U.S. manufacturing industry grew at its slowest pace in nearly three years, but continued to outpace peers in Europe and Asia, new data out of Markit Economics shows.
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
USPS defaults on Aug. & Sept. payments for retiree benefits, claims service will not be interrupted
08-02-2012
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www.cnbc.com
The post office had $5.5 billion in payments for future retiree health benefits due Wednesday and $5.6 billion due in September, but it will miss both payments because of cash shortages related to the rise of email, electronic bill payments and priva
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
The Police: Useless, but not Harmless
08-01-2012
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The bad news for Rafael Lopez was that the 27-year-old Iraq war veteran had been robbed and severely beaten by a gang of at least 10 men on the street outside the Aqua nightclub in Minneapolis. The good news " or Lopez initially thought " was that th
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News Link • Military
Marines Catch ‘Deserter’ … 5 Years After His Honorable Discharge
08-01-2012
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Wired
On Jan. 26, 2011, a pair of U.S. Marines put Alan Gourgue in handcuffs and a restraint belt and hauled him across the country to face trial as a deserter. Gourgue was distraught and completely confused; he had been honorably discharged in 2006 and fi
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News Link • Conspiracies
Colorado Killer and a Judge's Coverup
08-01-2012
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Lew Rockwell blog
The University of Colorado went into CYA mode, and has lucked out now that the judge in the case has ruled that the University is exempt from open-records laws on matters related to the killings. Court records have been altered to remove mention of t
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News Link • Free Trade
The Most Important Trade Agreement That We Know Nothing About
08-01-2012
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Slate
The Trans-Pacific Partnership could completely change intellectual property law. But the details are being kept secret.
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News Link • Corruption
Rep. Laura Richardson broke federal law, obstructed probe, House ethics panel finds
08-01-2012
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Washington Post
The House Ethics Committee on Wednesday called for the full chamber to reprimand Rep. Laura Richardson, accusing the California Democrat of breaking federal law, violating House rules and obstructing the committee’s investigation.
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News Link • Police State
‘Pepper Spray Cop’ loses his job
08-01-2012
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Arturo Garcia via The Raw Story.com
The infamous “Pepper Spray Cop” who attracted widespread criticism toward a California college last year is off the beat permanently, The Sacramento Bee reports.
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
U.S. to mull more bombers, submarines for Pacific
08-01-2012
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Reuters
Pentagon planners will consider adding bombers and attack submarines as part of a growing U.S. focus on security challenges in the Asia-Pacific, a senior Defense Department official said on Wednesday.
"We will take another look" at sending more su
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News Link • Syria
Obama authorizes secret support for Syrian rebels
08-01-2012
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Reuters
President Barack Obama has signed a secret order authorizing U.S. support for rebels seeking to depose Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his government, sources familiar with the matter said.
Obama's order, approved earlier this year and known
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