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Date Sent: 2012-06-14
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Thursday, June 14, 2012 AM edition |
U.S. expands secret intelligence operations in Africa -- TSA Expands Presence at Foreign Airports
Bomb Attacks Around Iraq Target Shiites, Killing Dozens -- Lance Armstrong faces fresh doping charges from USADA -- --
OUTRAGEOUS SELLOUT of SOVEREIGNTY by the OBAMA ADMINISTRATION! STOP
TRANS-PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP! -- 06-14-12 -- Glenn Jacobs - Broadcast from Davenport, IA - LISTEN LIVE on LRN.FM, M-F- 9-Noon (EST) -- David Birch: Identity without a name -- Pegasus rocket lofts NuSTAR X-ray telescope into orbit
Black hole scanner air launch successful -- Insight:
Brazil protects its ... wines? -- WVU Eye Institute Researchers
Restore Vision with Gene Replacement Therapy -- U.S. Military Wants More Drones In
Latin America -- Why Not Canada?, by C.N. -- Two Letters Re: Development of Montana
and Idaho Economies -- It's Time To Start Watching The
Giant Student Protests In Quebec -- Tens Of Thousands Of People Are Marching On The Streets Of Moscow -- BAILOUT FOR BROTHELS: Spain To Allow Prostitutes To Advertise
Again -- 32 Signs That The London
Olympics Will Be A Complete Disaster -- Another Scary
Collapse Chart Out Of India -- EURO-DATES: Here Are The Next 9
Crucial Events In The Euro Debt Saga -- Now Argentinean Protestors
Are Burning British Flags Outside Newly-Nationalized YPF -- Meet Alexis Tsipras, The Youthful Greek
Leader Who Terrifies The European Financial Elite -- Bill
Gates spends $1.1 million fitting students with "attentiveness"
bracelets -- India's cash society
converting to SmartCard use by way of World Bank -- We
salute you, Dr Paul! -- Bonnaroo
plies RFID bracelets and Big Data checkpoints on concertgoers -- From headed for jail to head of the class -- 06-13-12 - Kurt Wallace - Geogre Polisner -
Show on the road Des Moines, Iowa - (MP3 Loaded) -- Syngenta Charged for Covering up
Livestock Deaths from GM Corn -- Poisoning Hawaii –
Genetic Engineering Chemical Warfare -- The End of the American Labor Union Movement as we Know It -- Radiation Burst Mapped in Tree Rings -- Barber holds Gabrielle Giffords’ seat for Democrats in
Arizona -- Is a Paul Compromise Due to Threats of a Bloody
Convention? -- Iceland's President
Explains Why The World Needs To Rethink Its Addiction To Finance --
16 Reasons To Move To Iceland Right Now -- Either Rupert Murdoch Or Ex-PM Gordon Brown Has Lied Under
Oath -- UBS: We Are In The Eye Of The Foreign Exchange
Hurricane -- Homeless man allowed to keep $77,000 he found on
riverbank -- No One Is Quite Sure Who Funded This Egyptian TV
Advertisement -- Bundesbank
Executive: 'The Euro Is Like A Knife In The Hands Of A Child' -- You Should Be Worried That The Drug War ISN'T Dominating Mexico's
Presidential Campaign -- The EU Is Considering Limiting ATM
Withdrawals And Imposing Border Checks -- DISASTER: ITALY GETS
DEMOLISHED, SPAIN FALLS, AND YIELDS SURGE AFTER BAILOUT -- US TRAINS
ITS GUNS ON CHINA -- Of Krugman and Diocletian -- What Is Money? -- Tax-Loving
Conservatives -- Crazy Horse Memorial -- Weapons Maintenance – A
Missing Element -- Supreme Court
Approves Police State Harshness -- Spain: The Latest Shoe
to Drop -- Peter Schiff Speaks
With Rand Paul About Romney
Endorsement -- Attorney Marc
Victor Blasts The Drug War In Open Court
FL: Ron Paul Festival Set for
Fairgrounds in Tampa August 24-26
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
U.S. expands secret intelligence operations in Africa
06-13-2012
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Washington Post
The U.S. military is expanding its secret intelligence operations across Africa, establishing a network of small air bases to spy on terrorist hideouts from the fringes of the Sahara to jungle terrain along the equator, according to documents and peo
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
TSA Expands Presence at Foreign Airports
06-13-2012
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New York Times
An ocean away from the United States, travelers flying out of the international airport here on the west coast of Ireland are confronting one of the newest lines of defense in the war on terrorism: the United States border.
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News Link • Iraq
Bomb Attacks Around Iraq Target Shiites, Killing Dozens
06-13-2012
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New York Times
Then, reports of other attacks flooded in from around the country " Samarra, Kirkuk, Mosul, Falluja, Ramadi, Hilla " and by midday officials said more than 90 people were dead and at least 260 were wounded.
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News Link • Drug War
Lance Armstrong faces fresh doping charges from USADA
06-13-2012
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The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency brought formal doping charges against former cyclist Lance Armstrong in an action that could cost him his seven Tour de France titles, according to a letter sent to Armstrong and several others.
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News Link • r3VOLution Continues
Ron Paul, Gary Johnson, Rand Paul, Alex Jones, etc.
06/14/2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Miscellaneous thoughts regarding the freedom fights and those that should be leaders by example. Looking at the ramblings over this past week.
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Philosophy: Fascism
OUTRAGEOUS SELLOUT of SOVEREIGNTY by the OBAMA ADMINISTRATION! STOP TRANS-PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP!
061312
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www.varight.com
We must stop the OUTRAGEOUS SELLOUT of national sovereignty proposed in the Trans-Pacific Partnership! Congress must act immediately! Either the Constitution (next to the Bible most dear!) is or is not the Supreme Law of the Land! This is a huge P
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News Link • World News
India's cash society converting to SmartCard use by way of World Bank
06-13-2012
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The Wall
A new World Bank program offers so-called “smart cards” to people who have very little access to regular banks.
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Sheila Dean
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News Link • Government
Today on LewRockwell.com - Wednesday June 13th 2012
06-13-2012
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http://www.lewrockwell.com/
Who Foments War? - Crooked Elections, Crooked Markets, Crooked Numbers - Heaping Disrespect on Those Who Desperately Deserve It - Hitler's Favorite Bible Verse - The Anti-Golden Rule Empire - Why Are We Obsessed With Zombies?
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Surveillance
David Birch: Identity without a name
06-13-2012
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TedTalks
Bartenders needs to know your age, retailers need your PIN, but almost no-one needs your name -- except for identity thieves. At TEDxSussexUniversity, David Birch proposes a safer, fractured and conditional approach to personal identification that wo
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Pegasus rocket lofts NuSTAR X-ray telescope into orbit Black hole scanner air launch successful
06-13-2012
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Iain Thomson theregister.co.uk
NASA has confirmed the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) X-Ray telescope has successfully made it into orbit after an airborne launch over the Pacific Ocean.
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News Link • World News
Insight: Brazil protects its ... wines?
06-13-2012
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Reuters Brian Winter
Brazil is widely celebrated for having some of the world's best beaches, soccer, and Carnival festivities.
Wines? Um, no.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
WVU Eye Institute Researchers Restore Vision with Gene Replacement Therapy
06-13-2012
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healthnewsdigest.com
Visvanathan Ramamurthy, Ph.D., researcher at the West Virginia University Eye Institute and the WVU Center for Neuroscience, and WVU MD/PhD student Cristy Ku recently demonstrated that gene replacement therapy restores sight in animal models.
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News Link • Military
U.S. Military Wants More Drones In Latin America
06-13-2012
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huffingtonpost.com
The U.S. Military is looking to relocate some of their predator drones, sending some to South and Central America, according to a new article in Wired Magazine.
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News Link • MEDIA BLOG REFERENCES
Why Not Canada?, by C.N.
06-13-2012
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survivalblog.com
I am often surprised to hear about people planning for an eventual societal collapse and hearing that you are choosing to remain in place where your worst fears are being realized.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Two Letters Re: Development of Montana and Idaho Economies
06-13-2012
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www.survivalblog.com
Hi,
Just wondering if you could add something to your information on Montana and Idaho? Could you tell us a little about the differences in property taxes in these states.
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News Link • Activism
It's Time To Start Watching The Giant Student Protests In Quebec
06-13-2012
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Adam Taylor businessinsider.com
You've probably noticed a few headlines, on BI and elsewhere, about some kind of student protest for the last few months in Montreal and Quebec, just over the border in Canada.
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News Link • Activism
Tens Of Thousands Of People Are Marching On The Streets Of Moscow
06-13-2012
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Adam Taylor businessinsider.com
Anti-government protestors have taken to the streets of Moscow for a "March of Millions", with organizers putting their numbers as high as 200,000, Russia Today reports.
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News Link • Economy - International
BAILOUT FOR BROTHELS: Spain To Allow Prostitutes To Advertise Again
06-13-2012
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Charlie Minato businessinsider.com
This weekend, the Spanish Parliament reversed a 2010 ban on advertising by Spanish prostitutes and brothels "'because of the recession," according to local media.
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News Link • Economy - International
Another Scary Collapse Chart Out Of India
06-13-2012
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Mamta Badkar businessinsider.com
Indian industrial production grew just 0.1 percent year-over-year (YoY) in April, and manufacturing which accounts for 75 percent of the industrial output index also grew just 0.1 percent.
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News Link • Economy - International
EURO-DATES: Here Are The Next 9 Crucial Events In The Euro Debt Saga
06-13-2012
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Simone Foxman businessinsider.com
EU leaders will finalize the terms of the Spanish bank bailout, Greeks will vote (again), and investors will bite their nails over Italy.
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News Link • World News
Now Argentinean Protestors Are Burning British Flags Outside Newly-Nationalized YPF
06-13-2012
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businessinsider.com AP
A small group of leftist protesters have burned a British flag outside the headquarters of Argentina's oil company, saying YPF should stop using oil tankers that fly flags from the British commonwealth.
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Bill Gates spends $1.1 million fitting students with "attentiveness" bracelets
06-13-2012
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The Daily Mail UK
The bracelets, donated to public schools, measure how well the skin conducts electricity, which varies with its moisture level.
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Sheila Dean
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Feature Article • Activism
We salute you, Dr Paul!
Thomas Costanzo
Adam Kokesh discusses what Ron Paul has done for him in his life. Ron Paul has opened Adams eyes to the idea that you own your life and your body, and how that has made Adam a better man. Myself Included! Ron Paul endorsed Adams Campaign for Congre
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News Link • Entertainment: Concerts - Theatre - Events
Bonnaroo plies RFID bracelets and Big Data checkpoints on concertgoers
06-13-2012
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TalkStreetSmart
Along the lines of Facebooks' Spotify, AC Entertainment is front running RFID bracelets down lines of concertgoers who aren't necessarily conscious of the location and data they are volunteering up at vendor "check-ins".
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Sheila Dean
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News Link • Motivation
From headed for jail to head of the class
06-13-2012
(CBS News) PICAYUNE, Miss. - In Washington Thursday, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts honored 10 teachers for their power to inspire. CBS News correspondent Wyatt Andrews spoke to one of them as well as the student whose life she ch
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Thomas Costanzo
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News Link • Agriculture
Syngenta Charged for Covering up Livestock Deaths from GM Corn
06-13-2012
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Farm Wars
Corporation faces criminal charges for concealing own study in which cows died after eating its genetically modified corn.
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Bioterrorism
Poisoning Hawaii " Genetic Engineering Chemical Warfare
06-13-2012
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Farm Wars
Over 5,000 experimental tests have been conducted by Monsanto, Dow, Dupont/Pioneer, Syngenta and BASF that spray chemicals on an almost daily basis on our most valuable lands.
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Activism
Ron Paul Festival Set for Fairgrounds in Tampa August 24-26
06-13-2012
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Washington Times OF ALL PLACES!!! heh heh
The rollercoaster ride for Ron Paul’s supporters continues amidst more delegate wins and Senator Rand Paul’s controversial endorsement of Romney.
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Cern Confirms Neutrinos Do Not Exceed Light Speed
06-13-2012
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arclein
Despite repeating the process 15,000 times with consistent findings, the OPERA team cautioned skepticism until the results could be independently verified and invited
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robert klein
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News Link • Agriculture
Robotic Deboning
06-13-2012
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arclein
Chickens are big business. In the United States alone 8.7 billion chickens are processed every year. That’s 36 billion pounds (16 billion kg) of poultry of which the average American consumes 50 pounds (23 kg). On such a scale, costs due to inefficie
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The End of the American Labor Union Movement as we Know It
06-13-2012
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arclein
policies have threatened their power " and their very existence in one of the most pro-union states in the country - Republicans and Democrats alike will perceive them as weak. The state’s labor unions " including the AFL-CIO, AFSCME and the SEIU " c
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News Link • Science
Radiation Burst Mapped in Tree Rings
06-13-2012
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arclein
The radiation burst, which seems to have hit between ad 774 and ad 775, was detected by looking at the amounts of the radioactive isotope carbon-14 in tree rings that formed during the ad 775 growing season in the Northern Hemisphere. The increase in
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News Link • Politics: Democratic Campaigns
Barber holds Gabrielle Giffords’ seat for Democrats in Arizona
06-13-2012
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The Ticket
Democrat Ron Barber, Gabrielle Giffords' former district director, won the special election Tuesday to succeed his former boss in Arizona's 8th District, holding the open House seat for his party and earning a leg up in the race for a full term.
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News Link • Activism
Is a Paul Compromise Due to Threats of a Bloody Convention?
06-13-2012
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Truth Alliance via Activist Post via RTR.ORG
"Ask, is it a possibility that the RNC has threatened the Pauls with militarized police action and possible provocateured violence against the Ron Paul revolutionaries who attend the RNC convention in August?"
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Economy - International
Iceland's President Explains Why The World Needs To Rethink Its Addiction To Finance
06-13-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Adam Taylor
Here's the full transcript of our interview with "lafur Ragnar Grímsson, who has been President of Iceland since 1996, and announced last month he would be running for a fifth term.
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News Link • General Opinion
16 Reasons To Move To Iceland Right Now
06-13-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Adam Taylor
Way back in heady days of 2009, Business Insider gave you 6 reasons to move to Iceland.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
Either Rupert Murdoch Or Ex-PM Gordon Brown Has Lied Under Oath
06-13-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, AP
Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown lambasted Rupert Murdoch before Britain's media ethics inquiry on Monday
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Currencies
UBS: We Are In The Eye Of The Foreign Exchange Hurricane
06-13-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Mamta Badkar
Demand for safe haven currencies surged in May when investors were panicked about the Greek elections and weak economic data coming from the US, UK, eurozone, China and India.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Positive News
Homeless man allowed to keep $77,000 he found on riverbank
06-13-2012
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www.statesman.com
70 $100 bills and 40 Krugerrand gold coins from South Africa
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News Link • Media: Television
No One Is Quite Sure Who Funded This Egyptian TV Advertisement
06-13-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Samuel Blackstone
Commercials warning Egyptian citizens to watch what they say to strangers were banned from television Friday after Egyptian Minister of Information Ahmed Anis called the ads an apparent "incitement against foreigners", according to Al Arabiya News.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • European Union
Bundesbank Executive: 'The Euro Is Like A Knife In The Hands Of A Child'
06-13-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Wolf Richter
While France is preoccupied with the legislative elections next weekend, Germany and Austria plunge into intense public soul searching about the euro, its meaning, its relevancy, the sheer and endlessly growing expense of maintaining it.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Mexico
You Should Be Worried That The Drug War ISN'T Dominating Mexico's Presidential Campaign
06-13-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Adam Taylor
Mexico's drug war is thought to have killed 50,000 people in just six years, yet, surprisingly, the drug war is not dominating the debate in the upcoming July 1 election.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • European Union
The EU Is Considering Limiting ATM Withdrawals And Imposing Border Checks
06-13-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Luke Baker
European finance officials have discussed as a worst-case scenario limiting the size of withdrawals from ATM machines, imposing border checks and introducing capital controls in at least Greece should Athens decide to leave the euro.
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News Link • European Union
DISASTER: ITALY GETS DEMOLISHED, SPAIN FALLS, AND YIELDS SURGE AFTER BAILOUT
06-13-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Simone Foxman
Italy closed down 2.8 percent, Spain fell 0.5 percent, and yields soared in Spain and Italy as any enthusiasm vanished about a Spanish bank bailout.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • World News
Check Out This Insanely Detailed Satellite Photo Of An Enormous North Korean Rally
06-13-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Adam Taylor
This image, taken April 15th by Digital Globe, reveals the enormous size of a rally in Pyongyang, North Korea, held just days after this month's unsuccessful missile launch.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Military
US TRAINS ITS GUNS ON CHINA
06-13-2012
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http://ericmargolis.com, by Eric Margolis
US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta says the major portion of US naval power will shift to the Pacific by 2020 as part of the Pentagon’s new “pivot to Asia” strategy.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Of Krugman and Diocletian
06-13-2012
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http://lewrockwell.com, by Peter C. Earle
Several weeks ago, a most intriguing exchange occurred on Bloomberg News wherein presidential candidate Ron Paul, the foremost voice for Austrian School economic policies, faced off against Paul Krugman, New York Times economic columnist and recent w
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News Link • Currencies
What Is Money?
06-13-2012
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http://lewrockwell.com, by Peter Schiff
Today, we're accustomed to thinking of small greenish paper rectangles as the definition of money, and we think of the US government as the only source of money.
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News Link • Philosophy: Political
Tax-Loving Conservatives
06-13-2012
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http://lewrockwell.com, by Gary North
This may sound odd. Conservatives don't love taxes. They want lower taxes. Right? They want lower taxes and smaller government.
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News Link • Native American
Crazy Horse Memorial
06-13-2012
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http://en.wikipedia.org
The Crazy Horse Memorial is a mountain monument complex that is under construction on privately held land in the Black Hills, in Custer County, South Dakota.
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News Link • How to Help
Weapons Maintenance " A Missing Element
06-13-2012
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http://lewrockwell.com, Survival Blog
Over the years, as I've been perusing the pages of SurvivalBlog and various other sites, one thing had been missing the whole time, and to my own mind, I completely missed it too.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Drug War
Attorney Marc Victor Blasts The Drug War In Open Court
06-12-2012
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attorneyforfreedom.wordpress.com
Attorney Marc J. Victor blasts the drug war and the “Justice System” in open court on a case involving Marijuana possession and sales.
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