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Date Sent: 2014-02-23
Freedom's Phoenix Edition for Sunday, February 23, 2014 |
Universities in FCC Newsroom Probe Have Close Ties to Soros, Got $1.8M in Funding
FCC backs off newsroom survey
plan -- As Facebook's $19 Billion Whatsapp Purchase Crashes (And May Be
Hacked) -- BREAKING: FCC Stonewalls
Investigation Into Government Newsroom Hijacking -- Look What Was Found
In Yanukovych's Compound -- All
Drugged Up: The Overmedication And Overschooling Of Today’s Youth --
Yulia Tymoshenko (Ukraine's "Iron Lady") Freed, Vows To "Run For
President" -- 5 Private Moon-Race Teams Compete for Bonus $6
Million -- Is This The Moment The Fed Decided To Go All In? -- Google
Unveils A Smartphone Prototype That Maps The World -- Thoroughly
Enjoying Daily Paul Radio -- No Mars For Muslims? Mars One Asks Imams To
Rescind Fatwa --
Ukraine: US-Orchestrated Coup d'Etat -- Right-Wing Politicians Usurp
Power in Venezuela -- Venezuela deaths rise as unrest claims student and
biker -- Mexico captures No.1 drug kingpin 'Shorty' Guzman -- Coup: Ukraine
parliament ousts Yanukovich, Tymoshenko freed -- YOU Have Been
Targeted for Internment
& Resettlement -- Space tourism
company president talks space travel, Ohio State engineering --
Aquaponics pioneer raising 'freshwater lobster,' year-round
vegetables -- A Way to
Prove We’re All Born Libertarian -- A GOVERNMENT OF THE RICH -- The
REAL George Soros: An evil, despicable excuse for a human being -- Fascism's Ugly Face in Ukraine -- Ukraine:
Shaky Truce with Consequences -- SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News,
February 23, 2014 Edition
AZ: MOVIE NIGHT
IS BACK....THIS SATURDAY!!!
Larken Rose needs help getting home. If you can help, please do...
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News Link • Corruption
Universities in FCC Newsroom Probe Have Close Ties to Soros, Got $1.8M in Funding
02-23-2014
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, CNS News
The FCC may have suspended its invasion into American newsrooms, but the controversial “Critical Information Needs” study also has George Soros’ fingerprints all over it.
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News Link • Government
FCC backs off newsroom survey plan
02-23-2014
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Prison Planet
The Federal Communications Commission announced Friday that it was putting on hold a controversial study of American newsrooms, after complaints from Republican lawmakers and media groups that the project was too intrusive.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
As Facebook's $19 Billion Whatsapp Purchase Crashes (And May Be Hacked), Its Competitor Is Explo
02-23-2014
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zerohedge.com
Update: after 3 or so hours of downtime, Whatsapp is Backapp. For now. Then it may be Whatsdownn again...
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Government
BREAKING: FCC Stonewalls Investigation Into Government Newsroom Hijacking
02-23-2014
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http://www.prisonplanet.com
Alex Jones and Infowars reporter David Knight discuss the FCC’s plan to install newsroom monitors/censors into communities across the country under the guise of helping women and minorities.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • World News
Look What Was Found In Yanukovych's Compound
02-23-2014
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zerohedge.com
Among the items plundered from Yanukovych's compound (after he fled to Kharkov)...
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
All Drugged Up: The Overmedication And Overschooling Of Today’s Youth
02-23-2014
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zerohedge.com
What are we going to do about those little monsters called children? They won’t be quiet, won’t sit still and won’t pay attention.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • World News
Yulia Tymoshenko (Ukraine's "Iron Lady") Freed, Vows To "Run For President"
02-23-2014
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zerohedge.com
Yulia Tymoshenko was the heroine of the 2004 pro-Western Orange Revolution in Ukraine. But, as DPA notes, the two-time former prime minister was convicted in 2011 of abuse of power in connection with a gas deal with Russia (detailed below).
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
NASA Seeks Targets For Asteroid-Capture Mission
02-23-2014
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http://www.space.com, By Elizabeth Howell
NASA has set up a "rapid response system" to pick the best candidates for its ambitious asteroid-capture mission.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • World News
Ukraine President Flees Kiev After "Coup D'Etat" As Protesters Storm Presidential Pala
02-23-2014
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zerohedge.com
It has been a busy night in the Ukraine.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
5 Private Moon-Race Teams Compete for Bonus $6 Million
02-23-2014
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http://www.space.com, By Miriam Kramer
Landing on the moon is no easy feat, and five teams competing for the $30 million Google Lunar X Prize might just get a little more money to help them send their probes to the lunar surface.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Is This The Moment The Fed Decided To Go All In?
02-23-2014
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zerohedge.com
In December 2008, two brief conversations from Ms Yellen and Mr Bullard appear to have set the scene for both the scale and focus of the Fed's actions over the ensuing years...
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Google Unveils A Smartphone Prototype That Maps The World
02-23-2014
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http://www.popsci.com, By Colin Lecher
Project Tango constantly scans its surroundings, giving people--and Google--better maps than ever
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Religion: Believers
No Mars For Muslims? Mars One Asks Imams To Rescind Fatwa
02-23-2014
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http://www.popsci.com, By Kelsey D. Atherton
Islamic leaders ruled that a Mars journey would be akin to suicide, but the private Mars colonization project disagrees, citing a 14th century Muslim explorer.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Geography
Over The Past 60 Years, A Reef Island Has Grown Out Of The Sea
02-23-2014
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http://www.popsci.com, By Francie Diep
It is now stable and vegetated. Great job, island!
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News Link • Environment
Utah Lawmaker Says Atmosphere Needs More Carbon Dioxide Emissions
02-23-2014
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http://www.popsci.com, By Douglas Main
"We are short of carbon dioxide for the needs of the plants," said state representative Jerry Anderson, who is also a former science teacher.
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News Link • World News
Venezuela deaths rise as unrest claims student and biker
02-22-2014
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Reuters
A female student and a young supermarket worker were the latest fatalities from Venezuela's political unrest as the death toll from 10 days of violence rose on Saturday to at least eight.
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News Link • Drug War
Mexico captures No.1 drug kingpin 'Shorty' Guzman
02-22-2014
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Reuters
Mexico's most wanted man, drug cartel kingpin Joaquin "Shorty" Guzman, was captured on Saturday with help from U.S. agencies in a major victory for the government in a long, brutal drugs war. Guzman, known as "El Chapo" (Shorty) in Spanish,
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News Link • World News
Ukraine parliament ousts Yanukovich, Tymoshenko freed
02-22-2014
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Reuters
Ukraine's parliament voted to remove President Yanukovich after 3 months of street protests, while his arch-rival Tymoshenko hailed opposition demonstrators as "heroes" in an emotional speech in Kiev after she was released from jail.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Ayahuasca/DMT Can Effectively Treat Cancer
02-22-2014
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arclein
Similar to the way cancer has been successfully treated with cannabis oil, or vitamin B-17 from the apricot pit, it is emerging as a viable possibility that Ayahuasca is another herbal, ancient cure to disease found in abundance in the new world of s
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News Link • Archaeology
Bronze Age Return to Southern Africa revealed in DNA
02-22-2014
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arclein
Archaeological and linguistic studies of the region can make sense of the discovery. They suggest that a subset of the Khoisan, known as the Khoe-Kwadi speakers, arrived in southern Africa from east Africa around 2200 years ago. Khoe-Kwadi speakers w
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Sideways Rock and Roll Ice Crusher
02-22-2014
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arclein
The Baltika isn’t adrift"it’s breaking ice. Debuting in the Gulf of Finland in early 2014, the Russian-owned ship will be the first to travel sideways through the frozen stuff. Although smaller than a normal icebreaker, its oblique angle of attack le
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robert klein
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News Link • Geology
Sundering Sunda in 535 AD
02-22-2014
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arclein
These three extracts are just a representative sample of numerous accounts from all over the world, written in the same period of time. In all cases, the sun was described as getting dimmer and losing its light. Many also described it as having a blu
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Feature Article • How to Help
UPDATE FROM LARKEN ROSE
Donna Hancock
While traveling from PA to Missouri, New Mexico, Arizona, Texas and
North Carolina and back again, Larken Rose ran into car troubles and could really use help getting home to his family. He is still on the road and still has a long way to go...
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
11 Things You Probably Didn't Know About Human Space Exploration
02-22-2014
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http://io9.com,
Space is a weird place, and the quest to explore its mysteries in person has been no small source of strangeness and surprise. Here are some lesser-known facts about humanity's ongoing missions beyond Earth's atmosphere.
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Space travel is moving toward private funding
02-22-2014
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http://www.tricities.com, Jack Kennedy
American spaceflight triumphs are going to be led by fewer and fewer government astronauts in the decade ahead as the new 21st century private-sector astronaut corps emerges to manage private property.
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Space tourism company president talks space travel, Ohio State engineering
02-22-2014
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http://thelantern.com, Francis Pellicciaro
The president of a company planning to send tourists to space as soon as this year came to Ohio State to talk space travel and OSU engineering.
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News Link • 3D Printing
Joris Laarman's Latest 'Anti-Gravity' 3D Printer Basically Conjures Metal Out of Thin Ai
02-22-2014
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http://www.core77.com, Posted by core jr
Now, the Dutch designer has unveiled his latest breakthrough in liberating digital fabrication from a build platform: As its name suggests, MX3D-Metal can print lines of steel, stainless steel, aluminum, bronze or copper "in mid-air."
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News Link • 3D Printing
Surgeons recover baby’s skull with the help of 3D
02-22-2014
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http://med.news.am,
When Gabriel was born in August, his father, Manuel Dela Cruz, said everything seemed fine with his new son. It wasn’t until a week after his birth that Gabriel’s parents thought their son’s forehead looked abnormal.
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News Link • 3D Printing
Maker 3D-prints himself a prosthetic flexing fingertip
02-22-2014
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http://news.cnet.com, by Amanda Kooser
A determined maker without health insurance learns the ropes of 3D printing to make himself a new fingertip.
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News Link • Inventions
How a pomegranate inspired a new lithium ion battery design
02-22-2014
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http://gigaom.com, By Katie Fehrenbacher
A new battery innovation borrows from nature and could solve some big problems with using silicon in lithium in batteries.
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News Link • Aquaponics
Aquaponics pioneer raising 'freshwater lobster,' year-round vegetables
02-22-2014
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http://www.thestarpress.com, Seth Slabaugh
East Central Indiana already is home to the nation’s largest yellow perch farm, one that has earned a “Best Choice” rating from Seafood Watch.
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News Link • Animals and Pets
Dogs' brain scans reveal vocal responses
02-22-2014
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http://www.bbc.co, By Rebecca Morelle
Devoted dog owners often claim that their pets understand them. A new study suggests they could be right.
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News Link • Entrepreneurship
Girl Scout sells 117 boxes of cookies - outside marijuana clinic
02-22-2014
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http://www.independent.ie, Heather Saul
A girl scout has proved it really is "all about location" after selling 117 boxes of cookies from her stand outside The Green Cross medical marijuana dispensary in just two hours.
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News Link • Transportation
Lotus is Building the Real Tron Light Cycle
02-22-2014
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http://www.popularmechanics.com, by Andrew Moseman
There's a reason the Lotus Motorcycles C-01 looks like it might have driven out of the Tron universe and into the real world: Its designer, Daniel Simon, builds bikes for movies and created the light cycles for the 2010 sequel Tron Legacy. This isn'
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
A GOVERNMENT OF THE RICH
02-22-2014
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The Rutherford Institute/John Whitehead
NOW PLAYING: For the first time in history, Congress is dominated by a majority of millionaires who are, on average, 14 times wealthier than the average American. As such, these so-called representatives neither represent the American people nor serv
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News Link • Philosophy: Liberalism
The REAL George Soros: An evil, despicable excuse for a human being.
02-22-2014
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The Blogmocracy
While about 500,000 of his fellow countrymen, women and children, almost all of them Hungarian Jews, were being exterminated by Nazi Germany, this POS Soros, a Jew himself, called it “the happiest time of my life”.
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News Link • Marc Victor
City of Phoenix owed no legal duty
02-20-2014
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www.AttorneyForFreedom.net
The judge in the Baseline Killer civil case ruled yesterday that the City of Phoenix owed no legal duty to process the DNA evidence in its crime lab because both the victims and the perpetrator were then unknown to the City.
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News Link • Drones
Report: US Drone May Have Killed Dozen Civilians
02-20-2014
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Military.com
A US military drone strike in Yemen last December may have killed up to a dozen civilians on their way to a wedding and injured others, including the bride, a human rights group says. U.S. officials say only members of al-Qaida were killed, but
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News Link • Syria
Why Does Ukraine Seem So Much Like Syria?
02-20-2014
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Lew Rockwell blog
In Ukraine, US-backed rebels seize weapons from a military depot and begin firing on police " killing at least ten. The rebel groups occupy and torch government buildings, trade union headquarters, the central post office, and political party headqua
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News Link • Bitcoin
Bank of Montreal shuts down bitcoin-related business accounts in Canada
02-20-2014
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“We were informed this morning by our bank that the last remaining Bitcoin-friendly charter bank, Bank of Montreal, is closing all Bitcoin-related business accounts across Canada,” said Szczesny
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News Link • Police State
Chicago police develop real ‘Minority Report’ computer to predict crimes
02-20-2014
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The Daily Caller
Chicago is leading the way in developing the most advanced predictive analytical system yet, which uses advanced algorithms to compile a list of individuals most likely to commit a crime. “This [program] will become a national best practice,”
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News Link • TERRORISM
FBI “Terror Plot” Claims Continue to Unravel
02-20-2014
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copblock
It’s no secret that FBI employees excel at foiling plots of their own creation, which is why it’s important for any thinking person to question whatever “official” line is touted as fact, not just point out the dubious use of resources but to help to
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News Link • Whistleblowers
WATCH: Edward Snowden says Chelsea Manning performed ‘extraordinary act of public service’
02-20-2014
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AFP
Former US security contractor Edward Snowden spoke out about the use of state secrecy privileges as he presented an Oxford University's Sam Adams award for integrity and intelligence to fellow intelligence leaker Chelsea Manning.
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News Link • Gun Rights
DHS Contracted to Purchase 704 Million Rounds of Ammo: 2,500 Rounds Per Officer
02-20-2014
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CNS News
The Department of Homeland Security is contracted to purchase 704,390,250 rounds of ammunition over the next 4 years, equal to 2,500 rounds per agent per year, according to a report entitled "Ammunition Purchases Have Declined Since 2009"
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Support Your Local Slave Patrol
02-20-2014
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by William N. Grigg (Pro Liberate)
That conviction was upheld by the Arizona Court of Appeals, which ruled that although the arrest was unwarranted and illegal, Bear had engaged in an illegal act of “self-help” by refusing to submit to abduction with appropriate meekness.
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News Link • Employment & Jobs
Poll shows unemployment still main US problem
02-18-2014
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NEXT NEWS
NATION | A new poll shows unemployment is now the top problem of Americans. The survey was conducted by Gallup, as part of a regular series of research into the top concerns facing people of the country. Unemployment has been the greatest concern of
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News Link • Afghanistan
The Secret Battles Between US Forces and Chechen Terrorists
02-20-2014
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ABC News
For the last 12 years, US Special Operations forces have repeatedly engaged in fierce combat in Afghanistan against ruthless Taliban allies from Chechnya, who have the same pedigree as their terrorist brethren threatening to disrupt the Winter Olympi
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News Link • Syria
Obama wants US troops in Syrian war
02-20-2014
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Yahoo! News blog
How would voters respond to narrowly tailored attacks targeting Islamist fighters who may be looking to use that country’s lawless warzones as a staging ground for potential attacks on U.S. allies, U.S. interests, and possibly the United States itsel
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