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Date Sent: 2013-05-10
Freedom's Phoenix PM Edition for Friday, May 10, 2013 |
IRS apologizes for targeting conservative groups -- Is Gov’t Response to Terror, Terror?
Lijian stealth drone prepares for test flight -- Mystery Aircraft Frightens Quincy Residents -- Michigan school district lays off all its teachers -- Benghazi Talking Points Underwent 12 Revisions, Scrubbed of Terror Reference -- Rise of the Militarized Police (Video) -- Senator Joe Manchin Steps up his Campaign of Lies -- Astronauts May Take Emergency Spacewalk to Fix Space Station Leak -- Watch Wired Get Rich Quick With Our Sleek Bitcoin Miner -- Mike and Jackie Flood (MedPacksUSA) - (MP3 LOADED) -- Yen Falls Beyond 101 per Dollar on Bond Purchases;
Franc Slides -- F.C.C. Advances Plan for Faster In-Flight Wi-Fi --
Malaria mosquito dosed with disease-fighting bacteria -- Why fear of 3D-printed guns is overblown -- House passes 'Pay China First' Act -- US wants 9 permanent bases in Afghanistan after 2014 ISAF withdrawal -- Obama's Syria Game Plan: Libya 2.0 -- HARD CORE LIBERATION
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
IRS apologizes for targeting conservative groups
05-10-2013
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AP
The Internal Revenue Service inappropriately flagged conservative political groups for additional reviews during the 2012 election to see if they were violating their tax-exempt status, a top IRS official said. Organizations were singled out
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TERRORISM
Is Gov’t Response to Terror, Terror? " Prof. Beau Grosscup
05-10-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Is Gov’t Response to Terror, Terror? " Prof. Beau Grosscup (Video Interview)
Next News Network interviews Prof. Beau Grosscup regarding the governments response to terror threats and terror attacks.
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Reported by:
Chris Menke
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News Link • China
Lijian stealth drone prepares for test flight
05-10-2013
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The Lijian is described as the world's third stealth combat drone. A newly designed Chinese drone is ready for its first flight test after completing its taxi test at an unknown airfield in the southeastern province of Jiangxi.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Government
Mystery Aircraft Frightens Quincy Residents
05-10-2013
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CBS News (video)
A mystery in Quincy continues to deepen: Who is flying around the city from dusk to dawn, for the past ten days or so? “It’s frightening, not just weird, but frightening,” said one resident. Every night for nearly the last 2 weeks, residents have
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Michigan school district lays off all its teachers
05-10-2013
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The Lookout
The Board of Education in Buena Vista, MI has declared a financial emergency. The school district lacks funds to pay teachers for the rest of the school year. Students have not attended classes in a week. The district laid off all teachers earlier th
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
Benghazi Talking Points Underwent 12 Revisions, Scrubbed of Terror Reference
05-10-2013
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ABC News (video)
When it became clear last fall that the CIA's now discredited Benghazi talking points were flawed, the White House said repeatedly the documents were put together almost entirely by the intelligence community, but White House documents
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
Rise of the Militarized Police (Video)
05-10-2013
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The Rutherford Institute
In conjunction with the upcoming release of his new book, A Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State, John W. Whitehead sits down to discuss several "pressure points" that are threatening the Bill of Rights and undermining our essenti
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Gun Rights
Senator Joe Manchin Steps up his Campaign of Lies
05-10-2013
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Gun Owners of America
Within the past 48 hours, we have seen clear evidence that West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin and his staff have openly lied about the status of talks with two Republican Senators.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Untethered Biopsy Microtool Tested
05-10-2013
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arclein
these star-shaped tools are autonomously activated by the body's heat, which causes their tiny "fingers" to close on clusters of cells. Because the tools also contain a magnetic material, they can be retrieved through an existing body opening via
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robert klein
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Pineal Gland Exercise
05-10-2013
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arclein
n the average person, the pineal gland is atrophied, [calcified] and dormant. The following exercise will change that. Please read this thoroughly, as much of the exercises I write of are very advanced and can cause problems if one does not do them c
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robert klein
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News Link • Religion: Believers
Esoteric Knowledge is Reawakening
05-10-2013
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arclein
Spiritual and esoteric knowledge has appeared in many different cultures, and has found its expression in different words, symbols, sacred sites, teachers, prophets, messengers, gurus, avatars, artwork, dances, poetry, and much more. However, althoug
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Chronic Back Pain Cured?
05-10-2013
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arclein
The Danish team describe their work in two papers published in the European Spine Journal. In the first report, they explain how bacterial infections inside slipped discs can cause painful inflammation and tiny fractures in the surrounding vertebra
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robert klein
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
What is Acupuncture?
05-10-2013
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livescience.com
Acupuncture is a complementary medical practice that entails stimulating certain points on the body, most often with a needle penetrating the skin, to alleviate pain or to treat various diseases.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Astronauts May Take Emergency Spacewalk to Fix Space Station Leak
05-10-2013
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space.com
Astronauts on the International Space Station are preparing for a possible emergency spacewalk tomorrow (May 11) to fix a serious leak of ammonia coolant on the orbiting laboratory.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Bitcoin
Watch Wired Get Rich Quick With Our Sleek Bitcoin Miner
05-10-2013
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Wired.com
We’ve set up own little digital mint in the corner of our office, and you too can share in the magic of Bitcoin mining, thanks to our BitCam.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Currencies
Yen Falls Beyond 101 per Dollar on Bond Purchases; Franc Slides
05-10-2013
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www.businessweek.com, Lucy Meakin and Kevin Buckla
The yen weakened beyond 101 per dollar for the first time since April 2009 after a government report showed Japanese investors boosted holdings of overseas bonds, ending the longest streak of sales since January 2010.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Hubble finds dead stars "polluted" with planetary debris
05-10-2013
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http://www.spacetelescope.org,
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has found signs of Earth-like planets in an unlikely place: the atmospheres of a pair of burnt-out stars in a nearby star cluster.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Can a Pear Shape Answer Some of the Fundamental Questions of the Universe
05-10-2013
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http://www.designntrend.com, Timothy Koppe
Someone famous once said that the biggest of events come from the smallest of beginnings.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Animals and Pets
Owning a Dog Linked with a Healthy Heart
05-10-2013
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http://www.natureworldnews.com
Owning a pet, especially a dog, can improve one's heart health, according to a new statement by the American Heart Association.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Military
BNL, Stony Brook eye military battery work
05-10-2013
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http://www.newsday.com, By JOE RYAN
Brookhaven National Laboratory and Stony Brook University are seeking roughly $20 million in federal funding to help the military develop batteries that would power everything from unmanned vehicles to tactical gear soldiers carry into battle.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • 3D Printing
Why fear of 3D-printed guns is overblown
05-10-2013
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http://news.cnet.com, by Daniel Terdiman
Despite worries about the dangers of 3D printed firearms, there's little chance of anyone with a MakerBot gunning people down. Even gun-control advocates think the hype is too much.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • World News
No More “Fast Food” in Bolivia: McDonald’s Has Closed Down All Its Restaurants
05-10-2013
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http://www.globalresearch.ca
Bolivia became the first McDonald’s-free Latin American nation, after struggling for more than a decade to keep their numbers out of ‘the red.’ And that fact is still making news.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
House passes 'Pay China First' Act
05-10-2013
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http://rt.com
The Republican-controlled United States House of Representatives approved a bill on Thursday that would require the government to begin paying back foreign nations before spending funds on domestic items.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Military
US wants 9 permanent bases in Afghanistan after 2014 ISAF withdrawal
05-10-2013
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http://rt.com
Afghan President Hamid Karzai vowed Thursday to wring concessions out of the United States in negotiations for a security pact for the country, as Washington wants to maintain nine military bases in Afghanistan after ISAF troops withdraw in 2014.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Activism
Vernon Hershberger Real Food Trial
05-08-2013
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Farm Wars
Wisconsin farmer, Vernon Hershberger is facing criminal charges for feeding his community. Vernon supplies wholesome food to a private food club of 200 members. The outcome of his trial will set precedent for all food clubs around the country!
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Turning “Mirage Recovery” into a Real Economic Recovery
05-08-2013
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globalresearch.ca, Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flower
Recently, news reporters have been sounding almost giddy, saying that unemployment is dropping, housing prices are rising and the stock market is growing to new highs. But, these reports do not ring true with what people see around them. When you loo
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Immigration
GOP Immigration Amendments Boost Drones, Incarceration and Criminalization
05-08-2013
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http://www.commondreams.org, by Lee Fang
On Tuesday evening, the Senate Judiciary Committee released amendments to the immigration bill as the legislation begins its mark-up phase.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Whistleblower Ellsberg to SF Pride: Manning Should be Lauded as "Hero That He Is"
05-08-2013
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http://www.commondreams.org, Lauren McCauley
Over 100 Manning supporters shut out of public meeting on Gay Pride controversy
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
CIA requested Zero Dark Thirty rewrites, memo reveals
05-08-2013
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http://www.guardian.co.uk, Ben Child
Document shows agency requested removal of interrogation scene with dog, and shots of operatives partying with AK47
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Robert Lee
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News Link • 3D Printing
California, New York and DC look to ban 3D-printed guns
05-08-2013
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http://rt.com
A handgun made almost entirely using a consumer-grade 3D printer fired a bullet over the weekend for the first time in the history of the infant technology. If some lawmakers have their way, it will also be the last.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Anonymous
OpGTMO: Anonymous vows global hack attack to shut down Guantanamo
05-08-2013
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http://rt.com
The hacktivist group Anonymous has announced it will mark the 100th day of the Guantanamo hunger strike with three days of massive protests, calling on supporters to join their global action both on the ground and online.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Military
US heads 41-nation war games in Gulf, Iran fears conflict in volatile region
05-08-2013
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http://rt.com
Massive US-led military drills began in the Persian Gulf in a second such show of maritime might in under a year.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Technology: Computer Hardware
D-Wave’s Quantum Computer Goes to the Races, Wins
05-08-2013
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http://www.technologyreview.com, Tom Simonite
Tests suggest that a CIA-backed quantum computing technology can be very powerful for some kinds of problems.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • 3D Printing
3D-Printed Gun's Blueprints Downloaded 100,000 Times In Two Days
05-08-2013
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http://www.forbes.com,
If gun control advocates hoped to prevent blueprints for the world’s first fully 3D-printable gun from spreading online, that horse has now left the barn about a hundred thousand times.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • 3D Printing
This 3D printed prosthetic ‘Robohand’ will restore your faith in humanity
05-08-2013
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http://venturebeat.com, Ricardo Bilton
While a lot of the focus on 3D printing these days is on how it can be used to take lives, the technology can be used to improve them as well.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Afghanistan
Political Decentralization Might Help in Conflict-Ridden Countries
05-08-2013
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www.antiwar.com
What do Libya, Somalia, Yemen, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan have in common? Although it’s true that the United States has conducted recent military interventions in all of them, the more fundamental answer is that they are all artificial countries.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Religion: Believers
Opposing Theocracy
05-08-2013
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arclein
Theocracy is inherently oppressive and contrary to America's core values. It regards God as the sovereign and source of law. It therefore places the coercive power of the state--including interpretation and enforcement of law--in the hands of believ
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News Link • Syria
Syrian Internet blackout enters second day
05-08-2013
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AFP
Syria’s Internet blackout entered into its second consecutive day, which the state news agency blamed on a fault in optical fiber cables. Landline phone services between Syrian provinces have also been down since Tuesday, SANA said.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Surveillance
U.S. Is Weighing Wide Overhaul of Wiretap Laws
05-08-2013
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New York Times
Obama, resolving years of internal debate, is on the verge of backing a Federal Bureau of Investigation plan for a sweeping overhaul of surveillance laws that would make it easier to wiretap people who communicate using the Internet
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
Honeypots Lure Industrial Hackers Into the Open
05-08-2013
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Technologyreview.com
Dummy water-plant control systems rapidly attracted attention from hackers who tinkered with their settings"suggesting it happens to real industrial systems, too.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Guantanamo Bay
Why I Am on a Hunger Strike to Shut Down Guantanamo Bay Prison
05-08-2013
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Common Dreams
As a fourth generation shrimper and an environmental activist on the Texas gulf coast,I have gone on hunger fasts to protect the seas that my community of fishermen depend upon.I know how far I would go to be heard.To have a voice.To push for justice
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Environment
One-Third of U.S. Honeybee Colonies Died Last Winter, Threatening Food Supply
05-08-2013
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Wired.com
Nearly one in three commercial honeybee colonies in the United States died or disappeared last winter, an unsustainable decline that threatens the nation’s food supply.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Adam vs The Man
BORG Agent: We Will Arrest Adam Kokesh and Open Carry Protesters
05-08-2013
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Morpheus
BORG AGENT Threatens ARREST, BORG Agent (District of Columbia Metropolitan Police Department Chief) Cathy Lanier says she will arrest Adam Kokesh and any other protesters who violate the district’s gun laws. Actually she probably won’t be the one do
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Thomas Costanzo
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