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Date Sent: 2012-10-23
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Tuesday, October 23, 2012 AM edition |
US Soldiers Guarding the Poppy Fields in Afghanistan for the CIA
Charges Dropped Against Man Seen Beaten by Police in Video -- Italy Orders Jail Terms For 7 Who Didn’t Warn Of Deadly Earthquake -- Incorruptible Indian bureaucrat hounded out of office for fighting graft – 43 times -- Internet anti-censorship tools are being overwhelmed by demand -- Former CIA officer in leaks case expected to plead guilty to a single charge -- FBI releases documents that confirm they spy on anarchists -- Libertarian candidate wins prize for most zingers -- Have Voting Machines Already Made their Choice for Prez? -- Colorado tax enforcer tells ’60 Minutes’: Weed beat the recession in Denver -- Are Louisiana’s Coastal Areas Going To Be Evacuated? -- U.S. Patriot Union Exposes Obama Admin. of Treason in Libya? -- Powell Gammill and his rivals for CONgress -- Doug Casey's Top Five Reasons Not to Vote -- Narquitectura: Inside the Fortified Palaces of Mexico’s Drug Lords -- Researchers Admit That Flu Shots Might Not Actually Work In Everyone -- Airbus Ready to Start Assembly of New Composite Airliner --
If You Had Actually Grown Up In A Soviet Country, This Is What You
Would Have Experienced -- TRUE CONFESSION: I Live In The Middle Of A
Fracking Area... -- GARY SHILLING: A Housing Recovery? You've Got To Be Kidding Me -- This Week In The Future: Vote By Smelling The Candidates' Baked Goods -- Romney Family Investment Ties To Voting Machine Company... -- GARY SHILLING: It Doesn't Matter Who Wins -- The Economy's Screwed Either Way -- Ron Paul's Texas Straight Talk 10/22/12: Internet Freedom is Vital for Human Freedom -- American bombing of Iraq left legacy of deformed babies: Siddiqui -- Brian Doherty on the Trouble With Governments and Benefits of Anarchism -- India May Ban GMO Crop Field Trials for 10 Years -- Video: Truck Driver Stands Up To Unconstitutional Checkpoint -- Anxious Turks suspect US plot is behind Syria's implosion -- Wary Swiss Banks Shun Yanks -- CBS News affiliate calls 2012 presidential race for Barack Obama weeks ahead of election -- Germany’s court of Audit gets suspicious as Germans not getting access to check gold reserves abroad -- Eugenics in education: Healthy boy banned from public school due to genetic makeup
Historic Presidential Debate (online/satellite) - Today, October 23; RT presents third-party presidential
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News Link • Afghanistan
US Soldiers Guarding the Poppy Fields in Afghanistan for the CIA
10-22-2012
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http://www.project.nsearch.com, by Glenn Canady
US Soldiers Guarding the Poppy Fields in Afghanistan for the CIA
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Charges Dropped Against Man Seen Beaten by Police in Video
10-22-2012
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New York Times
The Brooklyn district attorney, Charles J. Hynes, dropped all criminal charges on Monday against a young man whose arrest inside a Jewish community center in Brooklyn led to allegations of police brutality.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Italy Orders Jail Terms For 7 Who Didn’t Warn Of Deadly Earthquake
10-22-2012
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New York Times
7 prominent Italian earthquake experts were convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to 6 years in prison for failing to give adequate warning to the residents of a seismically active area in the months preceding an earthquake that killed more than 30
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Corruption
Incorruptible Indian bureaucrat hounded out of office for fighting graft " 43 times
10-22-2012
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Washington Post
Ashok Khemka is a troublemaker. A senior career bureaucrat, he simply cannot tolerate corruption, and so, in every job he takes, he does his best to put a stop to it. Not surprisingly, that does not always go down very well with his bosses.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
Internet anti-censorship tools are being overwhelmed by demand
10-22-2012
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Washington Post
U.S.-funded programs to beat back online censorship are increasingly finding a ready audience in repressive countries, with more than 1 million people a day using online tools to get past extensive blocking programs and government surveillance.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Former CIA officer in leaks case expected to plead guilty to a single charge
10-22-2012
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Washington Post
A former CIA officer who was charged with repeatedly leaking classified information is set to plead guilty in federal court to a single charge of disclosing the identity of an undercover CIA operative, according to people involved in the case.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
FBI releases documents that confirm they spy on anarchists
10-22-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
On Thursday, legal documents intended to be cloaked indefinitely were accidently unsealed in US District Court in Seattle for a moment, finally offering a small bit of insight as to why the FBI has been targeting adherents to a specific ideology and
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Politics: Libertarian Campaigns
Libertarian candidate wins prize for most zingers
10-21-2012
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Hometownlife.com
There was an edge of tension that nearly erupted into open hostility at the 9th U.S. Congressional candidate forum held recently in the Madison Heights City Hall.
Three times the moderator from the League of Women Voters threatened to halt the for
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Jim Fulner
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News Link • Voting: Vote Fraud
Have Voting Machines Already Made their Choice for Prez?
10-22-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
So, your Nobel Peace Prize-winning European Union is demanding that indebted nations like Greece and Portugal privatize all their water resources if they want to continue receiving bail outs. As in " you want to stay in the Eurozone? Then hand over y
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
Colorado tax enforcer tells ’60 Minutes’: Weed beat the recession in Denver
10-22-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
In a 13-minute segment broadcast Sunday night, CBS’s “60 Minutes” explored Colorado’s budding medical marijuana industry, and heard from a former drug cop turned tax enforcer who insisted that the industry has helped Denver beat the recession.
Tha
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Chris Menke
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Reference Link • Gulf Oil Spill
Are Louisiana’s Coastal Areas Going To Be Evacuated?
www.thecommonsenseshow.com
The conditions in the Gulf Coast region are so bad, that some are actually talking about a mass evacuation of the coastal regions in Louisiana. Others think the potential devastation is so dangerous that the entire Gulf Coast region should be evacua
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News Link • Biofuel
Artificial Photosynthesis Effort Takes Root
10-22-2012
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http://www.technologyreview.com, Kevin Bullis
$122 million innovation hub could speed the development of devices for making fuel from water and sunlight.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Drug War
Narquitectura: Inside the Fortified Palaces of Mexico’s Drug Lords
10-22-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By Robert Beckhusen
A gangster lives a fast, dangerous life " especially Mexico's brutal narco-chieftains.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - International
The Six Cheapest Places To Retire Abroad This Year
10-22-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Michael Foster
Over the 20th century, many retirees moved from New England, California and the Midwest to the sunny and sparsely populated Sun Belt, where low taxes and warm weather beckoned.
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Here's The Spaceship That Will Let Rich People Fly From NYC To Tokyo In 90 Minutes
10-22-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Alex Davies
Since the last flight of the Concorde in 2003, supersonic travel has been the province of jet fighter pilots and Felix Baumgartner.
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Get Ready For Wi-Fi Light Bulbs Controlled By Your iPhone
10-22-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Julie Bort
Wi-Fi light bulbs are almost here. Plug them in to an ordinary light socket. Fire up the Wi-Fi device that comes with them. Grab the app.
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News Link • Inventions
DIY Laser Cutter Raises Capital, Concerns
10-22-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By Joseph Flaherty
These are great days for makers. Affordable 3-D printers and CNC mills are popping up everywhere, opening up new worlds of production to wide ranges of designers.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Airbus Ready to Start Assembly of New Composite Airliner
10-22-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By Jason Paur
Early tomorrow morning Airbus will officially open the assembly line for its new A350 XWB composite airliner.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Philosophy: Socialism
If You Had Actually Grown Up In A Soviet Country, This Is What You Would Have Experienced
10-22-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Rob Wile
I grew up in a socialist country. And I have seen what that does to people. There is no hope, no freedom. No pride in achievement.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Military
Navy’s Top Geek Says Laser Arsenal Is Just Two Years Away
10-22-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By Spencer Ackerman
Never mind looming defense cuts or residual technical challenges.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Environment
TRUE CONFESSION: I Live In The Middle Of A Fracking Area...
10-22-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Rob Wile
Pavillion, Wyoming " population 231 " has become the epicenter of the fracking debate.
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News Link • Housing
GARY SHILLING: A Housing Recovery? You've Got To Be Kidding Me
10-22-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Henry Blodget
Housing data this week continue to point to a market recovery.
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News Link • Future Predictions
This Week In The Future: Vote By Smelling The Candidates' Baked Goods
10-22-2012
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http://www.popsci.com, By Baarbarian
In the future, we'll watch leaked footage of the unreleased Baked Goods Battle section of the 2012 presidential debates. Smell-o-vision available.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
GARY SHILLING: It Doesn't Matter Who Wins -- The Economy's Screwed Either Way
10-22-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Henry Blodget
We had Gary Shilling on DailyTicker last week. No matter who wins the presidential election in two weeks, he's not optimistic about the near-term outlook for the economy...
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Turn An Android Device Into A Pocket-Size Media Center
10-22-2012
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http://www.popsci.com, By Adam Dachis
The notion that a home entertainment center must be in your actual home is antiquated.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • How To
Medical Prepping in Three Months: A Guide to Safeguarding Your Family
10-22-2012
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by Dr. Cynthia J. Koelker
Today I offer part 1 of a 3-month medical prepping guide for your family, group, or community.
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News Link • Internet
Ron Paul's Texas Straight Talk 10/22/12: Internet Freedom is Vital for Human Freedom
10-22-2012
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by legalizeliberty
Ron Paul's Texas Straight Talk 10/22/12: Internet Freedom is Vital for Human Freedom
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News Link • Economy - International
I didn’t see this covered in any western newspaper
10-22-2012
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http://www.sovereignman.com, Tim Staermose
With a population of almost 100 million, the Philippines has a much larger population than Thailand. It’s a huge, growing market.
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News Link • Iraq
American bombing of Iraq left legacy of deformed babies: Siddiqui
10-22-2012
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http://www.thestar.com, By Haroon Siddiqui
Remember Falluja? That city in central Iraq was the scene of two furious attacks in 2004 by American Marines.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Drug War
Who Watches the Watchers?
10-22-2012
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http://www.thedailybell.com, by Staff Report
By now enough has emerged about the pharmaceutical industry to provide us with insights that legal drugs are not, in many cases, any safer than so-called illegal ones.
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News Link • General Opinion
Rediscovering IMF Working Papers
10-22-2012
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http://www.thedailybell.com, by Staff Report
The Telegraph's Ambrose Evans-Pritchard has caught up to a working paper entitled "The Chicago Plan Revisited" issued by IMF staff members Jaromir Benes and Michael Kumhof.
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News Link • Military
Myths of Iraq and Afghanistan
10-22-2012
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http://www.chicagotribune.com, Steve Chapman
When Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said the other day the U.S. war in Afghanistan is "succeeding" and "has turned an important corner," I could have sworn I had heard that before. Where could it have been?
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Food
India May Ban GMO Crop Field Trials for 10 Years
10-22-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Anthony Gucciardi
It has been a devastating month for Monsanto as nations around the globe continue to enact bans and restraints on the company’s genetically modified crop varieties.
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News Link • Military
Anxious Turks suspect US plot is behind Syria's implosion
10-22-2012
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http://www.csmonitor.com, By Emiko Jozuka
Locals in eastern Turkey, bearing the brunt of the fallout from Turkey's involvement in Syria, believe Ankara is merely a pawn in US plans to foment conflict in the region.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
CBS News affiliate calls 2012 presidential race for Barack Obama weeks ahead of election
10-22-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Matthew Boyle
he 2012 presidential election is still more than two weeks away, but on Friday a CBS News affiliate in Arizona called the race for President Barack Obama.
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Wary Swiss Banks Shun Yanks
10-22-2012
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http://online.wsj.com, By ANITA GREIL
When Scott Schmith finally got his Swiss passport last month, it was time for him to take a drastic step: hand back his American one.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Eugenics in education: Healthy boy banned from public school due to genetic makeup
10-22-2012
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www.prisonplanet.com
An 11-year-old California schoolboy named Colman Chadam has been banished from his school and forced to transfer to another school because he carries the genetic mutation for cystic fibrosis.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Germany’s court of Audit gets suspicious as Germans not getting access to check gold reserves abroad
10-22-2012
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www.rumormillnews.com
As the german "Bild" newspaper reported on Monday, Bundesbank (Germany’s central bank) board member Carl-Ludwig Thiele had addressed a letter to Mißfelder and Wanderwitz. In the letter, the German banker writes, that the central banks in Paris and Lo
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Democratic Campaigns
The remarkable, unfathomable ignorance of Debbie Wasserman Schultz
10-22-2012
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www.guardian.co.uk
The Chair of the Democratic National Committee is completely unaware of one of the biggest stories of the Obama years
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Healthcare
Today on LewRockwell.com - Monday October 22nd 2012
10-22-2012
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www.lewrockwell.com
Libertarians Should Vote for… No one / I'm Buying Junk Silver! / Why the US Is Descending into Fascism
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Government
Deciding the Future of Puerto Rico
10-21-2012
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Free Press Publications
Voters in Puerto Rico are preparing to reconsider the island’s relationship with the federal government. This is the first time since 1998 that voters have been asked to reconsider the fate of the island territory.
No matter what the results of th
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Darryl W. Perry
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Reference Link • Food
Prop 37 and Food Supply Safety
www.thecommonsenseshow.com
Barb Peterson (farmwars.info) as she and Dave discuss the labeling of GMO’s and the controversial Prop 37, which is on the ballot this November. If passed, GMO’s would have to be labeled
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