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Date Sent: 2012-02-27
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Monday, February 27, 2012 PM edition |
Wyoming House advances doomsday bill -- ACTA: the Internet censorship “law” that can’t be repealed? -- Ross from DontTreadOnMeme.com talks about the Silver Dime Card Project -- February 27th, 2012 - Drew Phillips - Jun Dam - Susan Lindauer - Listen Live LRN.FM, M-F, 9-Noon EST -- Ron Paul Supporters Protest Against the NDAA -- Rare Earth Investment Update -- 'US to announce aerial blockade on Syria' -- The Myriad Infirmities of Democracy -- Israeli Assassinations and American Presidents -- Rick Santorum, Manchurian Candidate. Communism is in His Genes. -- Tea For Two :60 -- Cruise line: 22 passengers robbed in Mexican seaside resort -- Evacuate Tokyo and All US Forces From Japan -- State Trooper Kills Woman With Taser Instead Of Chasing Her -- How Does It Feel At The End Of The Line @ Ron Paul Rally In Hudsonville Michigan? -- The Colonization Begins: Germany May Send 160 Tax Collectors To Greece -- Dresden, Hiroshima, and Soviet Machinations -- The Media And GOP Are Suppressing The Reality That Ron Paul Has Reached Critical Mass -- Custom Made Home Distillation by Reed -- Ron Paul is the Only Candidate Who Will Cut Spending -- All New Windows 8 Computers to Have Remote Kill Switch -- Wikileaks Begins Publishing ‘Millions’ of Stolen Stratfor Emails -- Nine killed in Afghan airport bomb, NATO base attacked -- Russia, Ukraine foiled plot to kill Putin -- WRAPUP 3-Homs under fire, Syria awaits vote result -- US court rejects oil company’s appeal to dismiss judgment issued by Ecuadoran court.
-- Ron Paul is coming to MSU! -- How does it feel being at the back of the line? -- 'Hallwalkers': The Ghosts Of The State Department -- Energy Fuels Newt Gingrich's Comeback Plan --
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News Link • World News
'US to announce aerial blockade on Syria'
02-27-2012
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Roi Kais
US readies for possibility of intervention without UN resolution, Asharq Al-Awsat reports, citing US military official; plan to include humanitarian aid to Syrian refugees on Turkey's border.
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News Link • World News
Russia, Ukraine foiled plot to kill Putin
02-27-2012
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AP
Russian and Ukrainian special services have arrested suspects linked to a Chechen rebel leader for allegedly plotting to assassinate Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, state television reported Monday, less than a week before elections he is all but cert
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Future Predictions
Wyoming House advances doomsday bill
02-27-2012
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m.trib.com
State representatives on Friday advanced legislation to launch a study into what Wyoming should do in the event of a complete economic or political collapse in the United States.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Internet
ACTA: the Internet censorship “law” that can’t be repealed?
2-26-2012
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Free Patriot Press
Just last month millions of Americans rallied to defeat SOPA and PIPA. However, something worse has crept in the back-door and may not be able to be repealed. In October 2011, President Obama signed an international agreement called the Anti-Counterf
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Darryl W. Perry
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News Link • Activism
Ross from DontTreadOnMeme.com talks about the Silver Dime Card Project
02-27-2012
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www.youtube.com
Ross from DontTreadOnMeme.com talks about the Silver Dime Card Project while showing off some card designs, plugging the new silver apps, and showing off some clever new t-shirts.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Activism
Ron Paul Supporters Protest Against the NDAA
02-27-2012
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www.youtube.com
In front of an Ben Qualye fund raising event in Phoenix, Arizona, Ron Paul supporters protest against the NDAA
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Philosophy: Political
The Myriad Infirmities of Democracy
02-26-2012
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Lawrence Hunter, Forbes
Tamny’s suggestion almost certainly cannot be adopted in the currently evolved, dead-end political system we call “democracy in America under the rule of law,” which more accurately is described as “plunder in America under the color of law.”
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Israel
Israeli Assassinations and American Presidents
02-27-2012
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by Alison Weir
On Jan. 13 the Atlanta Jewish Times featured a column by its owner-publisher suggesting that Israel might someday need to “order a hit” on the president of the United States.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • World News
Cruise line: 22 passengers robbed in Mexican seaside resort
02-27-2012
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By the CNN Wire Staff
Twenty-two Carnival Cruise Lines passengers were robbed of valuables and their passports during a shore excursion in the Mexico seaside resort of Puerto Vallarta, cruise officials said late Saturday.
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News Link • Police State
State Trooper Kills Woman With Taser Instead Of Chasing Her
02-27-2012
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by David Drumm (Nal)
Florida Highway Patrol officer Daniel Cole used his taser to stop a fleeing Danielle Maudsley. As a result, Maudsley fell and cracked her head on the concrete roadway.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • European Union
The Colonization Begins: Germany May Send 160 Tax Collectors To Greece
02-27-2012
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Tyler Durden
European banks and various insurance companies are about to send out the first group of colonial scouts in the form of German tax collectors.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • History
Dresden, Hiroshima, and Soviet Machinations
02-27-2012
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by Bruce Walker
The anniversary of the Allied bombing of Dresden on February 13 and 14, 1945 has become an increasingly contentious memory for thousands of Germans.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
The Media And GOP Are Suppressing The Reality That Ron Paul Has Reached Critical Mass
02-27-2012
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Saman Mohammadi
What lies ahead for America, the West, and humanity in the immediate future is pain, disease, suffering, and destruction.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Technology: Computer Hardware
All New Windows 8 Computers to Have Remote Kill Switch
02-27-2012
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Jordan Robertson
With the rollout of the Windows 8 operating system expected later this year, millions of desktop and laptop PCs will get kill switches for the first time.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • World News
Wikileaks Begins Publishing ‘Millions’ of Stolen Stratfor Emails
02-27-2012
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By Matt Peckham
Out of the frying pan, into the fire: Global intelligence firm Stratfor may have secured its perimeters after its servers were infiltrated late last year, but a mammoth email dump just hit the grid courtesy Wikileaks.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Afghanistan
Nine killed in Afghan airport bomb, NATO base attacked
02-27-2012
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Reuters
A suicide car bomber killed at least nine people in an attack on a military airport in eastern Afghanistan on Monday, officials said, the latest incident of violence and protests since copies of the Koran were inadvertently burned at a NATO base last
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
WRAPUP 3-Homs under fire, Syria awaits vote result
02-27-2012
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REUTERS
Syrian artillery pummelled rebel-held areas of Homs on Monday.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • World News
US court rejects oil company’s appeal to dismiss judgment issued by Ecuadoran court.
02-27-2012
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Luis Ángel Saavedra
Chevron continues to lose legal battles
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Ron Paul is coming to MSU!
02-27-2012
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by dexterszyd
Ok everyone, time to quit talking and start doing! I am calling on everyone from Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin to call in to work load up the car and head up to East Lansing Michigan on Monday at 4 o'clock on the campus of Michigan
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Whistleblowers
'Hallwalkers': The Ghosts Of The State Department
02-27-2012
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by NPR Staff
The halls of the State Department are haunted, not by actual ghosts, but by people who might as well be ghosts
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Energy Fuels Newt Gingrich's Comeback Plan
02-27-2012
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by NPR Staff
Republican candidate Newt Gingrich is counting on his promise of $2.50-per-gallon gas to return him to front-runner status.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Afghanistan
Airport In Eastern Afghanistan Hit With Car Bomb
02-27-2012
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by The Associated Press
A suicide car bomber has struck at the gates of Jalalabad airport in eastern Afghanistan, officials said, killing nine people in an attack insurgents said was revenge for U.S. troops burning Qurans
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Robert Lee
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News Link • World News
Will France's First Lady Be Able To Seduce Voters?
by Eleanor Beardsley
02-27-2012
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by Eleanor Beardsley
In the traditional world of French politics, spouses don't usually jump into the fray. But French first lady Carla Bruni Sarkozy is anything but a traditional political spouse.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Why Michigan Catholics Favor The Mormon Candidate
02-27-2012
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by Sonari Glinton
Presidential candidates Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum are neck-and-neck in the polls in the run-up to the Michigan Republican primary on Tuesday.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Healthcare
New Methods Could Speed Up Repair Of Injured Nerves
02-27-2012
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by Jon Hamilton
When a nerve is injured, it's often hard to get it to regrow fast enough to restore function.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Energy
What Happens If The Keystone XL Pipeline Isn't Built?
02-27-2012
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by Guy Raz and Brent Baughman
Gas isn't like a rare bottle of wine that fetches a high price just because it's rare. But at the same time, no one can agree what drives gas prices.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Afghanistan
NATO Air Raid Kills, Injures Seven Afghan Civilians
02-27-2012
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by Ghanizada
At least 7 Afghan civilians were killed and injured following a NATO air raid at Tagab district of eastern Kapisa province.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Misinformation
Memo To POTUS---Eyes Only: From The Department of Pre-War Planning And Threat Exaggeration
02-27-2012
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by Danny Schechter
Here are excerpts from a “secret document” whose authenticity cannot be authenticated, perhaps because I wrote it myself.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Iran
The U.S. Has the Moral Authority to Annihilate Iran Because They’re Evil
02-27-2012
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Washington's Blog
Tucker Carlson: The U.S. Has the Moral Authority to Annihilate Iran Because They’re Evil
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama, “Friends of Syria” Press for Military Intervention Against Damascus
02-27-2012
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by Alex Lantier
US President Barack Obama and international diplomats gathered at the “Friends of Syria” meeting in Tunis issued statements yesterday pressing for military intervention in Syria.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Police State
Drone Makers Cash In as Other Nations, US Police Enter Market
02-27-2012
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Common Dreams staff
'The hungriest market is the nation's 19,000 law enforcement agencies'
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Justice and Judges
US Supreme Court to Weigh Foreigners' Suits vs. Corporations
02-27-2012
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Common Dreams staff
The US Supreme Court will hear arguments Tuesday over the reach of the Alien Tort Statute and a 20-year-old law that allows victims of torture to pursue civil lawsuits against the responsible individuals.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Archaeology
Chinese Pompei
02-27-2012
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arclein
Due to the pristine preservation of some of the plants, the team estimate the ash fell over the course of just a few days, felling and damaging some of the trees and plants under its weight but otherwise keeping them intact.
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News Link • Science
Graphyne
02-27-2012
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arclein
This was surprising in the case of the rectangular graphyne, Görling says, because most people assumed this sort of electronic structure was tied to hexagonal symmetry. The implication is that many other materials (some containing atoms other than c
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Shoe Power
02-27-2012
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arclein
Let us consider the case of the film stack with the capacitance of 16 nF cm−2. The average generated power calculated using equation (2) is shown in Figure 3b. The average power per foot can exceed 2 W for bias voltages in excess of 35 V and 10
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Why Math Matters
02-27-2012
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arclein
Drs. Eric Hanushek and Paul Peterson, senior fellows at the Hoover Institution, looked at the performance of our youngsters compared with their counterparts in other nations, in their Newsweek article, “Why Can’t American Students Compete?” (Aug. 28,
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News Link • Activism
Lucy Lawless arrested protesting Arctic oil drilling
02-26-2012
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The RawStory.com
“Xena: Warrior Princess” actress Lucy Lawless was arrested in New Zealand Monday after occupying an oil-drilling ship for three days to protest plans to search for oil off Alaska, Greenpeace said.
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News Link • Intelligence: Use and Abuse
Wikileaks Pairs with Anonymous to Publish Intelligence Firm’s Dirty Laundry
02-26-2012
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Quinn Norton via WIRED.com
In an unprecedented collaboration between Anonymous and WikiLeaks, the secret spilling site began leaking Sunday night portions of a massive trove of e-mails from the private intelligence firm Stratfor that Anonymous obtained by hacking the company
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News Link • Surveillance
FBI Turns Off Thousands of GPS Devices After Supreme Court Ruling
2/25/12
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The Wall Street Journal
The Supreme Court’s recent ruling overturning the warrantless use of GPS tracking devices has caused a “sea change” inside the U.S. Justice Department, according to FBI General Counsel Andrew Weissmann.
Mr. Weissmann, speaking at a University of S
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Anonymous Watchman
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Forcing Defendant to Decrypt Hard Drive Is Unconstitutional, Appeals Court Rules
02-26-2012
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Wired.com
Thursday’s decision by the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said that an encrypted hard drive is akin to a combination to a safe, and is off limits, because compelling the unlocking of either of them is the equivalent of forcing testimony.
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
PayPal As Moral Police? Forces E-Book Sellers To Remove Certain Erotica Content
02-26-2012
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techcrunch.com
Adult content has long been a big draw, and one of the most profitable, in the world of digital media, but a recent move by PayPal is a sign of how one part of that business may be facing some problems up ahead.
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Opinion • Foreign Policy
Advice From Our Founders
02-26-2012
Howard Blitz
With our government officials beating the drum again for more war, this time with Iran, they might want to take a step back and heed the advice of our forefathers, principles that were consistently expressed through all of their writings.
One,
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Feature Article • Arizona's Top News
Checkpoint USA Is Going To Trial!
Terry Bressi
After more than eight long years, hundreds of legal documents later and several court challenges (including a reversal by the 9th circuit court of appeals), Checkpoint USA's lawsuit is finally being scheduled for trial after being launched in Decembe
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Outlawing Solidarity in Tucson
02-25-2012
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by Rethinking Schools Editorial
As many Rethinking Schools readers know, in January Tucson school officials ordered our book Rethinking Columbus removed from Mexican American Studies classes, as part of their move to shut down the program.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Anonymous
'Anonymous' Targets Private Prison System in Latest Hack
02-25-2012
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Common Dreams staff
The international private prison corporation, GEO Group, Inc., was targeted today by the hacktivist group Anonymous.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Military
Bradley Manning's Quest for Justice
02-25-2012
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by Logan Price
Whatever the outcome of the WikiLeaks suspect's trial, many of us believe he holds to a higher standard of truth than this court's
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Iran
US Spies See No Evidence of Iranian Nuclear Weapons Program
02-25-2012
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Common Dreams staff
US intelligence agencies believe there is no hard evidence that Iran has decided to build a nuclear bomb
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Video: Fox Focus Group Praise Ron Paul, Criticize Santorum
02-25-2012
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America Live With Megyn Kelly
America Live With Megyn Kelly - Title: Is it make or break for Santorum? - Focus group reacts to Arizona debate and its impact on 2012 race
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