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Date Sent: 2012-10-15
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Monday, October 15, 2012 AM edition |
Mexican mayor says boy shot by US agent 7 times -- IAF bombs Gaza for 3rd time in 24 hours
Global warming stopped 16 years ago, reveals Met Office report quietly released -- Public trust strained as Jackson County drug task force shooting details unfold -- U.S. requests extradition of ex-Kyrgyzstan president’s son -- Florida Police Chief Arrests Man for Video Recording Officer Tasing Handcuffed Man -- Texas Cops Arrest Pair for Reposting Undercover Cop's Facebook Photo -- Charges dropped against ex-Morgan Stanley exec who allegedly stabbed cabbie -- Russia: Syria Jet Carrying Perfectly Legal Radar Parts -- CFR, Trilateral Commission & Atlantic Council Draft War | Brainwash Update -- Austerity-weary Lithuania ejects government: exit poll -- Marked for Death - by Pastor Greg Dixon -- Pariahs among us: Sex offender laws in the 21st century -- Feds could put Google on the stand for search result trickery -- Dear John: US police use public humiliation to fight prostitution -- Global Noise takes on austerity: 'We are not going to be silent' -- Horrors of war: US, UK munitions ‘cause birth defects in Iraq’ -- Hundreds of police storm Brazilian slums -- Bernanke defends Fed stimulus as China, Brazil raise concerns -- Skydiver lands after record-breaking leap -- Wounded Mauritania president flown to Paris -- Chile envoy in Ghana over held Argentine ship -- Longtime GOP Senate moderate Arlen Specter dies -- At CDC, scientists fight to halt a deadly outbreak -- UK may speed troop pullout in 2013 over Marines shooting scandal -- Syria: New Evidence Military Dropped Cluster Bombs -- USS Montpelier Submarine And USS San Jacinto Aegis Cruiser Crash, Says Navy -- Batch of $100 Bills Stolen From Plane
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News Link • Homeland Security
Mexican mayor says boy shot by US agent 7 times
10-14-2012
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AP
A teenage boy apparently killed this week by a U.S. Border Patrol agent was hit seven times by gunfire and died on a sidewalk just across the Arizona-Mexico border, a mayor in Mexico said Friday.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Israel - Palestine
IAF hits Gaza for 3rd time in 24 hours, death toll up to 5
10-14-2012
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Jpost.com
Israel Air Force hits rocket-launching terror cell in central Gaza, east of Deir el-Balah, killing 2 and injuring 2; 5 global jihadi members have been killed in Israeli strikes in past day amid ongoing rocket attacks.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Environment
Global warming stopped 16 years ago, reveals Met Office report quietly released
10-14-2012
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Daily Mail
From the beginning of 1997 until August 2012 there was no discernible rise in aggregate global temperatures. This means the ‘pause’ in global warming has lasted for the same time as the previous period when temperatures rose, 1980 to 1996.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Public trust strained as Jackson County drug task force shooting details unfold
10-14-2012
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"This is just an unfortunate case that has caused some public doubt," Moss Point police Chief Keith Davis said. "At the end of the day, I want the public to be able to trust law enforcement in Jackson County."
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News Link • Foreign Policy
U.S. requests extradition of ex-Kyrgyzstan president’s son
10-14-2012
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AFP
The son of Kyrgyzstan’s ousted president has been arrested in London after the United States requested his extradition, the Kyrgyz presidency and British and US diplomats said. Former top official Maxim Bakiyev, 34, was seeking asylum in Britain afte
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Florida Police Chief Arrests Man for Video Recording Officer Tasing Handcuffed Man
10-14-2012
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Photography Is Not a Crime
A Florida police chief arrested a man for video recording one of his officers tasing a handcuffed man in a parking lot. The man was charged with interference, even though he was standing behind a car well away from the actual incident.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Texas Cops Arrest Pair for Reposting Undercover Cop's Facebook Photo
10-14-2012
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Photography Is Not a Crime
A Texas woman who came across a Facebook photo of an undercover cop was arrested after she posted the photo on her own Facebook page. Melissa Walthall was charged with retaliation, a felony charge that can land her in prison for ten years.
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News Link • Corruption
Charges dropped against ex-Morgan Stanley exec who allegedly stabbed cabbie
10-14-2012
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Rawstory
William Bryan Jennings, a former top bond writer with Morgan Stanley, will no longer be charged in connection to an alleged assault on a cab driver last December in which the driver said Jennings refused to pay his fare and then stabbed him.
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News Link • Syria
Russia: Syria Jet Carrying Perfectly Legal Radar Parts
10-14-2012
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AntiWar
While the Turkish government has refused to provide any details about the supposedly “objectionable” material they seized from a detained Syrian passenger plane this week, Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov has provided some details.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Conspiracies
CFR, Trilateral Commission & Atlantic Council Draft War | Brainwash Update
10-14-2012
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Russia Today (h/t LewRocwell blog)
Abby Martin highlights a few of the most influential Think Tanks and policy groups that have created a revolving door between the government, multinational corporations, and media groups.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - International
Austerity-weary Lithuania ejects government: exit poll
10-14-2012
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Reuters
Lithuanians voted out their government in an election on Sunday, an exit poll showed, in a taste of what may await other European leaders forced by the financial crisis to implement unpopular austerity measures.
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Opinion • Healthcare
Words Eye View
Marked for Death
10-14-2012
Greg J Dixon
On October 12, at approximately 11 am, I heard Neal Boortz make the following statement on his radio program ...
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News Link • General Opinion
Pariahs among us: Sex offender laws in the 21st century
10-14-2012
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Aljazeera
Stringent sex offender laws in the United States destroy lives and do little to mitigate repeat offences.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Internet
Feds could put Google on the stand for search result trickery
10-14-2012
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RT.com
Though Google Inc. denies claims that it puts competitors low in its search results, the US Federal Trade Commission isn’t buying it.
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News Link • Privacy Rights
Dear John: US police use public humiliation to fight prostitution
10-14-2012
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RT.com
Hiring a prostitute is no longer an anonymous act: men who pay for sex now face public humiliation as a form of punishment.
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News Link • Activism
Global Noise takes on austerity: 'We are not going to be silent'
10-14-2012
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RT.com
Demonstrators across the world are calling for an end to austerity as Global Noise protests kick off in more than 30 countries, including many in the Nobel Peace laureate European Union.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Horrors of war: US, UK munitions ‘cause birth defects in Iraq’
10-14-2012
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RT.com
US and UK weapons ammunition were linked to heart defects, brain dysfunctions and malformed limbs, according to a recent study. The report revealed a shocking rise in birth defects in Iraqi children conceived after the US invasion.
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News Link • World News
Hundreds of police storm Brazilian slums
10-14-2012
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RT.com
Brazilian troops and police swept through Rio’s most infamous slums in a pre-dawn raid, backed up by helicopters and tanks. The “pacification” mission is intended to bring the crime-ridden favelas to heel before the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympics.
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News Link • Food
Exclusive: Nestle to cut sugar and salt in breakfast cereals
10-14-2012
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Reuters
Nestle SA and General Mills Inc will cut sugar and salt in the children's breakfast cereals they jointly market outside North America, the latest attempt by major food companies to respond to health concerns.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Bernanke defends Fed stimulus as China, Brazil raise concerns
10-14-2012
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Reuters
* Bernanke defends Fed policy from foreign critics
* Brazil says U.S. policy unfair, China warns on inflation
* Bernanke blames some emerging economies' forex policies for tensions
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Solar Wind Particles Likely Source of Water Locked Inside Lunar Soils
10-14-2012
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omglobe.com
The most likely source of the water locked inside soils on the moon’s surface is the constant stream of charged particles from the sun known as the solar wind, a University of Michigan researcher and his colleagues have concluded.
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Skydiver lands after record-breaking leap
10-14-2012
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Aljazeera
Austrian Felix Baumgartner completes jump from the stratosphere in what could be the world's first supersonic skydive.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • World News
Wounded Mauritania president flown to Paris
10-14-2012
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Aljazeera
Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz makes televised appeal for calm after soldiers allegedly open fire on his convoy by mistake.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • World News
Chile envoy in Ghana over held Argentine ship
10-14-2012
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Aljazeera
Chile will send envoys to Ghana in an attempt to persuade the West African nation to release an Argentine navy ship seized over a dispute with creditors, a top government official has said.
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News Link • Philosophy of Liberty
Best Doug Casey Speech Ever! An Anarchist, Economic Collapse & 7 Billion Chimpanzees
10-13-2012
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http://www.dailypaul.com/
This is Doug Casey at Libertopia, this is without a doubt his best speech ever. He holds no punches amongst fellow libertarians and anarchists.
Oct 12 2012 (Friday)
This is informative and excellent!
Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?featur
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
World's Highest Skydive! Daredevil Makes Record-Breaking Supersonic Jump
10-13-2012
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Space
Successfully jumped from 128,000 feet. Landed safely. Broke speed of sound barrier, highest accent in a balloon for a human and highest freefall. But was traveling too fast to exceed longest time in freefall.
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News Link • POWER to the People
For dollars' worth of copper farmers out thousands
10-14-2012
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Associated Press
Cannon Michael is a folk hero across California's agriculture heartland, where these days the price of scrap metal influences a farmer's bottom line as much that of the fine pima cotton he grows.
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News Link • Transportation
Amphibious vehicle to go on sale soon in US
10-14-2012
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Associated Press
Amphibious vehicles could soon be zooming out of James Bond's garage " or pond " and into yours.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Death
Longtime GOP Senate moderate Arlen Specter dies
10-14-2012
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Associated Press
Former U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter, the outspoken Pennsylvania centrist whose switch from Republican to Democrat ended a 30-year career in which he played a pivotal role in several Supreme Court nominations, died Sunday. He was 82.
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
At CDC, scientists fight to halt a deadly outbreak
10-14-2012
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Associated Press
Scattered across the carefully landscaped main campus of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are the staff on the front lines fighting a rare outbreak of fungal meningitis:
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News Link • Afghanistan
UK may speed troop pullout in 2013 over Marines shooting scandal
10-14-2012
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RT.com
The UK plans to pull troops out of Afghanistan in 2013 following the arrest of 9 Marines for the suspected murder of an unarmed militant. Britain is also under pressure to quit the costly war as the economic downturn has drained military coffers.
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News Link • Military
USS Montpelier Submarine And USS San Jacinto Aegis Cruiser Crash, Says Navy
10-14-2012
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Huffington Post.
The Pentagon said late Saturday that it is investigating why a Navy submarine collided with an Aegis cruiser off the East Coast.
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News Link • Syria
Syria: New Evidence Military Dropped Cluster Bombs
10-14-2012
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Huffington Post.
New evidence has emerged that the Syrian air force has used cluster munitions in recent days, Human Rights Watch said today.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Batch of $100 Bills Stolen From Plane
10-14-2012
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AP
Federal authorities are warning merchants to be on the lookout for stolen $100 bills that aren't supposed to go into circulation until next. The bills were stolen from an airplane that landed in Philadelphia from Dallas Thursday morning.
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News Link • Economy - International
China calls on U.S. and Japan to fix their finances
10-13-2012
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Raw Story
China said Saturday the failure by Washington and Tokyo to fix their fiscal problems was hurting the global economy, as it called for “bold, swift and decisive action” to reverse a slowdown.
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News Link • World News
Islamic hardliners in Mali increase threats as France pushes for intervention
10-13-2012
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RT.com
Islamists in northern Mali threaten to “open the doors of hell” to French citizens in the area if France keeps pushing for military intervention. A quarter of a million refugees have fled Mali's north since Sharia law was implemented there in March
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News Link • Activism
Europe's independence seekers: Scotland, Catalonia, and now ... Venice
10-13-2012
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Christian Science Monitor
Activists in Venice and northeastern Italy want to restore independence to the region, which had been a republic for more than 1,000 years before falling to Napoleon in 1797.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Alabama police officer shot and killed naked student despite having non-lethal arsenal
10-13-2012
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rt.com
An Alabama police officer shot and killed a naked college student, despite also carrying a baton and pepper spray. Police claimed officer's the use of deadly force was necessary.
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News Link • European Union
‘Europe can be strong without euro’
10-13-2012
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rt.com
Uniting nations under a single currency is a bad idea, Austrian billionaire-turned-politician Frank Stronach told RT. The eurozone's single currency is crippling the EU, and Stronach aims to demonstrate to the world that it can live without the euro.
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News Link • World News
Deadly car bomb rocks Pakistan town
10-13-2012
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Aljazeera
Fifteen dead and dozens injured by bomb targeting pro-government militia in Darra Adam Khel town in northwest Pakistan.
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News Link • Syria
Syrian opposition 'captures' soldiers
10-13-2012
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Aljazeera
Syrian opposition fighters release video claiming they have captured more than 200 prisoners in the province of Idlib.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Good Morning, Sweetheart: Now You're on Fire, Courtesy of the Local Police
10-12-2012
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Lew Rockwell blog
The child was asleep in her upstairs bedroom when a stranger lobbed an incendiary grenade into her home at about 6:00 a.m. October 9. Within seconds the 12-year-old girl had suffered first- and second-degree burns. Her father,
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
GOP tax plan would have minimal reduction on federal tax rates, analysis says
10-12-2012
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Washington Post
Wiping out itemized deductions and raising taxes on investment income would generate only enough cash to pay for a minuscule reduction in federal tax rates, raising new questions about the workability of Republican-style tax reform.
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News Link • Housing
Booming banks say consumers may not see lower mortgage rates
10-12-2012
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Washington Post
JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo, the nation’s largest mortgage lenders, said Friday they won’t make home loans much cheaper for consumers, even as they reported booming profits from that business.
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Reference Link • Activism
The Mainstream Media Is Not Our Friend: A Call To Arms
www.thecommonsenseshow.com
The mainstream media is not the friend of people seeking the truth. The media is largely controlled by six corporations representing the same people and corporations which are trying to enslave, and in some cases, trying to exterminate humanity.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
"He's a Constitutionalist" (Updated Again)
10-09-2012
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by William N. Grigg (Pro Liberate)
“Bear! There are guys with guns outside!” shouted Marcella Cruz to her husband as she looked out the kitchen window of their farmhouse in Letha, Idaho. Timidly opening the kitchen door, Marcella " a small, slender, middle-aged woman
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News Link • General Opinion
Overwrought empire: The discrediting of US military power
10-12-2012
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Aljazeera
Americans lived in a "victory culture" for much of the 20th century.
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News Link • Weird/Offbeat News
The Ukrainian Navy Is Strapping Dolphins With Guns To Attack Swimmers
10-12-2012
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Business Insider
The Navies of the world have long known how effective the sonar of dolphins and sea lions can be at locating small underwater objects.
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News Link • Political Parties
US election double standards
10-12-2012
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rt.com
While the US prides itself in free and fair elections, RT’s Anastasia Churkina reports on some of the flaws and double standards in the electoral system that American politicians pretend don’t exist.
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News Link • Drug War
MS-13 gang labeled transnational criminal group, a first for US street gang
10-12-2012
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Christian Science Monitor By Howard LaFranchi
MS-13 gang is a violent group engaged in the drug, sex, and human trafficking trades in the US. Designating MS-13 gang a transnational criminal organization helps US officials target it more aggressively.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Budget deficit tops $1 trillion for fourth straight year
10-12-2012
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By Rachelle Younglai Reuters
The United States government reported a budget surplus for the final month of the 2012 fiscal year, but the tiny bump in revenues did not prevent the country's deficit from exceeding $1 trillion for the fourth year in a row.
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News Link • Activism
Disabled Vet Labeled “Terrorist” For Investigating Cost Of Surveillance Cameras
10-12-2012
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Prison Planet Paul Joseph Watson
Characterization was reprisal for open records request, charges Elbert County man
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Anonymous vows revenge after WikiLeaks launches ‘filthy’ paywall
10-12-2012
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Rawstory
“To this day, not ONE single WikiLeaks staff are charged or incarcerated. However, Anonymous has 14 indicted (facing 15 years) for online protests defending WikiLeaks " and one (Jeremy Hammond) in prison and facing 20 years for
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News Link • Internet
Panetta Warns of Dire Threat of Cyberattack on U.S.
10-12-2012
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New York Times
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta warned the US was facing a “cyber-Pearl Harbor” and was increasingly vulnerable to foreign computer hackers who could dismantle the nation’s power grid, transportation system, financial networks and government.
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News Link • TERRORISM
Taliban's "Radio Mullah" sent hit squad after 14 year old Pakistani schoolgirl
10-12-2012
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Reuters
One of the Taliban's most feared commanders, Maulana Fazlullah, carefully briefed two killers from his special hit squad on their next target.
The gunmen weren't going after any army officer, politician or Western diplomat. Their target was a 14-y
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News Link • Economy - International
Greece's biggest company flees, bottler CCH to Switzerland
10-12-2012
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Reuters
Greece's biggest company, Coca Cola Hellenic, is leaving the country, the drinks bottler said on Thursday as its move to Switzerland and a London listing for its shares dealt a blow to the crippled Greek economy.
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News Link • Food
Dove Dinner Lands Texas Man In Hot Water With Law
10-12-2012
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CBS News
A Texas man is in hot water with the law after cooking and eating a dove that had flown against the side of his home, broke its neck and died. Being dove hunting season in Texas, Ryan Adams thought it was a stroke of luck when he discovered
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News Link • Syria
Turkey deploys fighter jets to Syria border after frontier village allegedly bombed " reports
10-12-2012
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rt.com
According to witnesses, Turkey scrambled two fighter jets to the Syrian border in response to an army helicopter bombing the Syrian border town of Azmarin, Reuters reported.
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News Link • World News
Japan Navy video: Armada flexes muscles amid islands dispute
10-12-2012
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Prison Planet
A graceful yet compellingly powerful Japanese armada has embellished the country’s Sagami Bay, showcasing the latest firepower of seabound warfare.
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News Link • European Union
EU wins Nobel Peace Prize
10-12-2012
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Reuters By Balazs Koranyi and Victoria Klesty
The European Union won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for its historic role in uniting the continent in an award seen as a morale boost as the bloc struggles to resolve its economic crisis.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Third anarchist jailed for refusing to testify before secret grand jury
10-12-2012
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rt.com
A third self-described anarchist from the Pacific Northwest has been jailed by federal officials for refusing to speak before a secretive grand jury that the accused have called a politically-motivated modern-day witch-hunt.
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