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Date Sent: 2012-09-19
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Wednesday, September 19, 2012 AM edition |
US Military Suspends Joint Patrols With Afghans -- DEA Told To Back Off Brother Of Afghan President
Cuba says it proposed talks on jailed American, no U.S. response -- U.S.
Warns Judge’s Ruling Impedes Its Detention Powers -- Members of
Congress Who Reauthorized Warrantless Wiretapping Bill Don't Understand
What It Does -- Netanyahu in 1992: Iran close to having nuclear bomb -- Julian Assange threatened legal action over WikiLeaks documentary --
Newspaper Ad Revenues Collapse to 1950 Levels -- DHS Purchases 200
Million More Rounds of Ammunition -- Chicago teachers vote to return to
classroom after 7-day strike; classes to resume Wednesday -- Judge:
Police can immediately start enforcing most contentious part of Ariz.
immigration law -- This Is The PERMANENT Establishing Of An Über
Class... -- Is QE3 Yet Another
Stealth Bank Bailout? -- CITI: When Gold Hits $1790, Silver Will Go
Bonkers -- Your Made-In-America Levi's Now Cost A Whopping $178 -- This
21-Year-Old Marine Predicted He Would Die At The Hands Of Afghan
Security Forces -- MORGAN STANLEY: 'Recent Fed Action Is A Game Changer
For Gold' -- YouTube Update: Jesse Ventura on The View 9/17/2012 -- OMG!
Bill O'Reilly finally asks the right question. Why do they hate us? -- Main Street USA and the Fed -- Deprogramming in Colorado (October 6th)
-- Legalized Plunder -- Germans with no faith in the Euro start using
defunct Deutschmarks again, obsolete since 2002 -- How China's Rehypothecated "Ghost"
Steel Just Vaporized, And What This Means For The World -- Tons Of Investors Are Thinking One Thing: 'We All Know This
Will End In Tears' -- How 9 Countries Completely Lost Control Of
Inflation -- ...The Fed's Latest Plan To Save The Economy Looks Like A
Step Toward Insanity -- Pentagon Slams 'Worst Ever' Contractor Lockheed
Over F-35 Problems -- Crude Oil's
Quick Fall Leaves Trail of Queries . -- New Evidence Supports Claims Of 'Pharmacologic Torture' At Guantánamo
-- Video Posted On YouTube Appears To Show Libyans Helping Slain US
Ambassador -- Ex-envoy to Israel: US will go to war with Iran in 2013 --
Neocons Engineering October Surprise? -- 4000 Marines Headed To Middle
East As Part Of Peleliu Amphibious Group Dispatch -- Video: Tom Woods
Unloads on Jesse Benton and John Tate
AZ: RALLY with GARY JOHNSON - Wed, Sept 26th, 2012 - 11am-1pm. ASU Tempe Campus, Hayden
Lawn; Marc J Victor Fundraiser - Wine and Hors
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News Link • Afghanistan
US Military Suspends Joint Patrols With Afghans
09-18-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Geoffrey Ingersoll
In the wake of insider attacks which killed four more Coalition troops over the weekend, top U.S. officials have decided to suspend most joint U.S.-Afghan military operations.
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News Link • Bush Administration
HACKED STRATFOR EMAILS: DEA Told To Back Off From The Brother Of Afghan President...
09-18-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Michael Kelley
Newly released internal emails from the U.S. private security firm Stratfor state that in 2007 the Bush Administration and CIA ordered the Drug Enforcement Agency to back off a major drug trafficking investigation of Afghan President Hamid Karzai's h
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News Link • Cuba
Cuba says it proposed talks on jailed American, no U.S. response
09-18-2012
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Reuters
Cuba proposed talks with the United States about resolving the case of jailed American contractor Alan Gross, but has received no response, indicating a lack of interest by Washington, a top Cuban diplomat said.
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News Link • Police State
U.S. Warns Judge’s Ruling Impedes Its Detention Powers
09-18-2012
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New York Times
The Obama administration warned a judge’s ruling blocking a statute authorizing the indefinite detention of terrorism suspects has jeopardized its ability to continue detaining certain prisoners captured during the war in Afghanistan.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Surveillance
Members of Congress Who Reauthorized Warrantless Wiretapping Bill Don't Understand What It Does
09-18-2012
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MotherJones
The House members who voted 301-118 to reauthorize the vast spying powers in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Amendments Act don't seem to understand what they were doing. The same thing happened in 2008, when Congress first
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News Link • Israel
Netanyahu in 1992: Iran close to having nuclear bomb
09-18-2012
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1992: Israeli member of parliament Binyamin Netanyahu predicts that Iran was “3 to 5 years” from having a nuclear weapon. 1992: Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres predicts an Iranian nuclear warhead by 1999 to French TV.
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Julian Assange threatened legal action over WikiLeaks documentary
09-18-2012
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The U.K. Guardian
Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, threatened to sue the South by Southwest (SXSW) festival in the United States if they broadcast the documentary, WikiLeaks: Secrets and Lies, earlier this year.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Media: Print
Newspaper Ad Revenues Collapse to 1950 Levels
09-18-2012
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Breitbart
This graph proves that we're the ones who are winning and on 2 fronts. First the business model of being shameless left-wing shills when alternative and honest opinion is available online just isn't working. Secondly, the corrupt media is desperate
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News Link • Homeland Security
DHS Purchases 200 Million More Rounds of Ammunition
09-18-2012
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InfoWars
Following controversy over its purchase of around 1.2 billion bullets in the last 6 months alone, the Dept of Homeland Security has put out a new solicitation for over 200 million more rounds of ammunition, some of which are to be used by snipers.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Chicago teachers vote to return to classroom after 7-day strike; classes to resume Wednesday
09-18-2012
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Washington Post
The city’s teachers agreed to return to the classroom after more than a week on the picket lines, ending a spiteful stalemate with Mayor Rahm Emanuel over teacher evaluations and job security, 2 issues at the heart of efforts to reform the nation’s p
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Judge: Police can immediately start enforcing most contentious part of Ariz. immigration law
09-18-2012
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Washington Post
A judge in Arizona ruled Tuesday that police can immediately start enforcing the most contentious section of the state’s immigration law, marking the first time officers can carry out the so-called “show me your papers” provision.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Is QE3 Yet Another Stealth Bank Bailout?
09-18-2012
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http://www.nakedcapitalism.com,
It’s difficult to puzzle out what Bernanke thinks he is accomplishing with QE3. The level of bond buying, as various commentators have pointed out, is much lower than in the earlier QE programs.
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News Link • Precious Metals
CITI: When Gold Hits $1790, Silver Will Go Bonkers
09-18-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Matthew Boesler
Citi analyst Tom Fitzpatrick has made a few bullish calls on gold lately. He wrote in a recent note to clients that gold could hit $2500/oz within six months. He also recently said that a $6300/oz gold price doesn't seem unreasonable either.
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News Link • Afghanistan
This 21-Year-Old Marine Predicted He Would Die At The Hands Of Afghan Security Forces
09-18-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Michael Kelley
A 21-year-old Marine who was killed by an Afghan trainee had previously told his father that he would be killed inside his base, David Ariosto of CNN reports.
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
OMG! Bill O'Reilly finally asks the right question. Why do they hate us?
09-18-2012
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by Top Narco
Oh. My. God. After 8 years of Ron Paul and 11 years after September 11th, Bill O'Reilly FINALLY asks the question "So... Why do they hate us?" And what answer does he get?
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Opinion • Events: America
Deprogramming in Colorado (October 6th)
09-18-2012
Larken Rose
If you live in Colorado, this may be your only chance--for a long time, if not forever--to attend a very unusual event. If you're ready to have your entire view of politics, government, and society turned inside-out, be at "Escaping the Myth."
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News Link • European Union
Germans with no faith in the Euro start using defunct Deutschmarks again, obsolete since 2002
09-18-2012
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www.numismaster.com
While countries including France and Italy set expiration dates after which their former currencies could no longer be exchanged for euros, Germany never did.
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • Economy - International
Either You Believe In Math; Or You Believe In Magic
09-18-2012
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
Analogizing from the sleight-of-hand tricks of magicians to the confidence-based efforts of the world's central bankers, Brent Johnson of Santiago Capital provides at once an entertaining and also devastatingly simple explanation of what these guys a
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News Link • China
How China's Rehypothecated "Ghost" Steel Just Vaporized, And What This Means For The W
09-18-2012
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
How China's Rehypothecated "Ghost" Steel Just Vaporized, And What This Means For The World Economy
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
It's Just Getting Stupid!
09-18-2012
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
Whether it is earnings hockey-sticks, global growth ramps, or fiscal cliff resolutions, it seems the market can only see the silver-lining. We temper that extreme bullish view with the fact that all the monetary policy good news has to be out now - f
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Tons Of Investors Are Thinking One Thing: 'We All Know This Will End In Tears'
09-18-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Joe Weisenthal
From Morgan Stanley's Adam Parker, a paragraph that captures the zeitgeist of the market
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News Link • World News
Berlusconi Magazines May Have Published Kate Photos To Get Revenge On The Queen
09-18-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Adam Taylor
While the UK Royals have today won an injunction in a French court that prevents Closer from republishing pictures of Kate Middleton topless, it's really just closing the stable door after the horse has bolted.
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News Link • Economy - International
How 9 Countries Completely Lost Control Of Inflation
09-18-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Matthew Boesler
Hyperinflationary episodes have appeared several times over the past century " 55, to be exact " as the world's nations have experimented with fiat currencies backed by the full faith and credit of the governments that issue them.
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News Link • Federal Reserve
...The Fed's Latest Plan To Save The Economy Looks Like A Step Toward Insanity
09-18-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Sam Ro
Last week, the Federal Reserve made history when it embarked on unlimited quantitative easing. In other words, it plans to buy bonds and keep interest rates as low as possible for as long as possible until unemployment comes down and the economy sta
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News Link • Military
Pentagon Slams 'Worst Ever' Contractor Lockheed Over F-35 Problems
09-18-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Reuters
Pentagon officials slammed Lockheed Martin Corp's performance on the $396 billion F-35 fighter jet program and said they would not bail out the program again if problems with the plane's cutting-edge pilot helmet and software were not resolved.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
This Tiny Chip Restores Partial Sight To The Blind
09-18-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Dina Spector
Before 2005, it was impossible to bring vision back to about 1.5 million people worldwide who suffer from an inherited form of blindness known as retinitis pigmentosa.
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News Link • Activism
Chinese Artist Ai Weiwei Tweets Photos Of Protest Outside US Embassy In Beijing
09-18-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Adam Taylor
Ai Weiwei, the famous (and, within China, controversial) Chinese contemporary artist has tweeted a series of photos that show a small protest outside the US Embassy in Beijing today.
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News Link • Employment & Jobs
Leno: ...'Encouraging More Americans to Give Up Looking for Work' to Bring Down Unemployment
09-18-2012
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http://newsbusters.org, By Noel Sheppard
Talking about how the unemployment rate only fell last month because of the number of people that dropped out of the labor force, Leno quipped that the President is "encouraging more Americans to give up looking for work so the numbers will come down
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News Link • China
The 12 Politicians Battling For Control Of China
09-18-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Mamta Badkar
The Chinese leadership transition expected to take place mid-October is fast approaching.
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Here Are The 47% Of The Population Who Don't Pay Federal Income Tax
09-18-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Joe Weisenthal
Mitt Romney's latest campaign setback is a leaked video that shows him slagging the 47 percent of the population who, he says, will always vote for Barack Obama, because they want everything for free from the government.
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News Link • Torture
New Evidence Supports Claims Of 'Pharmacologic Torture' At Guantánamo
09-18-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Michael Kelley
Witness testimony that was to be used in court by former Guantánamo detainee David Hicks suggests that prisoners were repeatedly drugged as part of the Bush administration's "enhanced interrogation," Natalie O'Brien of the Sydney Morning Herald repor
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News Link • Political Parties
These Are The 12 Super PACs That Are Bankrolling The 2012 Election
09-18-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Walter Hickey
One of the most striking characteristics of the 2012 election is the role that a small number of relatively unknown megadonors, via new Super PAC groups, are playing in determining the outcome of the presidential, Senate, and House races.
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News Link • Libya
Video Posted On YouTube Appears To Show Libyans Helping Slain US Ambassador
09-18-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Joshua Berlinger
A video on youtube has surfaced showing unknown Libyans help a what appears to be the late U.S. ambassador Christopher Stevens after the U.S. consulate in Benghazi was attacked.
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News Link • Future Predictions
Arctic Expert Predicts Final Collapse Of Sea Ice Within Four Years
09-18-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, John Vidal
One of the world's leading ice experts has predicted the final collapse of Arctic sea ice in summer months within four years.
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News Link • General Opinion
Set up your kids for life
09-18-2012
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http://www.sovereignman.com, Simon Black
If you’re presently expecting a child or are planning on having one soon, you should really consider having your baby overseas.
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News Link • Future Predictions
Ex-envoy to Israel: US will go to war with Iran in 2013
09-18-2012
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http://www.ynetnews.com
Martin Indyk believes US likely to go to war with Iran in 2013; says Israel's insistence that US publicly declare 'red line' for Iran an 'unreasonable requirement'
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News Link • NeoCons
Neocons Engineering October Surprise?
09-18-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Kurt Nimmo
The highly provocative anti-Muslim video “trailer” researchers claim is the handiwork of the Islamophobic provocateurs Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer and a resurgent neocon network is responsible for a new round of violent protests in the Middle Ea
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News Link • Military
4000 Marines Headed To Middle East As Part Of Peleliu Amphibious Group Dispatch
09-18-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Zero Hedge
Up until now, the LHD 7 Iwo Jima Big-Deck Amphibious Warfare ship was all alone in the Arabian Sea, patiently awaiting orders to liberate this or that middle east country of their oil reserves. This is no longer the case...
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News Link • Voting and Elections
Senate Candidate Marc J. Victor Criticizes Jeff Flake For Vote To Spy On Americans
09-18-2012
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VictorForSenate
Libertarian Senate Candidate Marc J. Victor criticized Representative Jeff Flake, for his yes vote on H.R. 5949 the FISA Amendments Act Reauthorization Act of 2012
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Reference Link • WAR: About that War
From Petrodollars to Retrodollars
www.thecommonsenseshow.com
The United States has debt, crushing debt, which makes the former Weimar Republic look solvent by comparison. The United States abandoned gold a long time ago. What then keeps our economy from degenerating into a trading and bartering society result
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News Link • Future Predictions
Mind blowing speech by Robert Welch in 1958 predicting Insiders plans to destroy America
09-17-2012
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www.youtube.com
Proof that the NEW WORLD ORDER has been planned by the elite. Robert Welch, Founder of The John Birch Society, predicted today's problems with uncanny accuracy back in 1958 and prescribed solutions in 1974 that are very similar to Ron Paul's position
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News Link • Philosophy: Libertarianism
My Awakening Part 1
09-17-2012
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http://dont-tread-on.me/?p=22929
By Silver Shield, on September 17th, 2012
1 year ago I started The Greatest Truth Never Told YouTube channel. In this single year we attracted over 4.3 million views and gained 18,500 subscribers. Now I am going to put my foot on the gas and I am
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News Link • Drug War
New Hampshire Jury Nullifies its First Felony Marijuana Case
09-17-2012
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www.news.yahoo.com
A major victory is scored for jury nullification with the acquittal of felony marijuana charges " and it’s all thanks to a “straight-laced little old lady” juror and participant of the Free State Project
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Opinion • Libya
What would Ronald Reagan have done in Libya?
09-17-2012
Menckens Ghost
As the political blather about the recent events in Libya shows, most Democrats and Republicans seem to forget history. Or to be more accurate, they selectively choose the history that is favorable to their politics and discard the history that is u
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News Link • Iran
Naval Power Massing in Gulf as Israel Prepares Iran Strike
09-16-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Battleships, aircraft carriers, minesweepers and submarines from 25 nations are converging on the strategically important Strait of Hormuz in an unprecedented show of force as Israel and Iran move towards the brink of war.
Western leaders are conv
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Foreign Policy
An Open Letter to All Muslims
9-16-2012
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Free Press Publications
I would like to send a friendly message to all Muslims.
I do not support the foreign policy of the government of the United States of America. I do not condone the actions of the men and women in the American military, when those men and women k
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