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Date Sent: 2012-08-24
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, August 24, 2012 PM edition |
Barack Obama asks Eurozone to keep Greece in until after election day
08-24-12 -- Barry Hess joins Ernest for some In-Studio fun... (MP3 & Video LOADED + BONUS) -- TSA Swabbing Fliers’ Hands For Explosives During ‘Chat Downs’ -- Gunman kills ex-boss, Cops wound 9 at Empire State Building -- Heart Disease Vaccine? -- SE Asian Skull dated to 60,000 BP -- The Trial (1962 film) - Director, Orson Welles - Writer, Franz Kafka -- FSN
(Financial Survival Network) Interviews Silver Shield (Chris Duane) on
Brandon Raub's Release -- Brandon Raub Released from Psychiatric Hospital; Did the FBI Go Too Far? (Video) -- Mitt Romney Has Already Begun Throwing Anti-Fed Republicans Under The Bus -- Greece Really Is Going To Start Selling Islands -- Republican Party Changes Rules To Stop The Pauls -- CS Monitor: Is Ron Paul getting a raw deal from the RNC? --
Nomination at Convention Moved up to Monday, Per Fox News -- Oath
Keepers Support Marine Vet Brandon Raub, Victim of Soviet Style
Pre-crime Detention -- Ben Swann New Deal Update 08/22/2012 -- Delegates Must Indicate Their Candidate One Hour Before the Vote -- Get ready for QE3 -- War of Words on Iran -- Saving a Failed System -- Quartzsite Police Chief Gilbert, Sgt. Garcia placed on paid leave
FL: Ron Paul Festival - August 24-26, 2012 - Florida State
Fairgrounds - Tampa
Paul Festival Commemorative Dime Cards Fundraiser - READY FOR
PURCHASE NOW!
Chip-In for Ed Vallejo-Tampa RNC Live Feed (& other purposes)
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Libertarian write-in candidates need your ink
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News Link • Politics: Democratic Campaigns
Barack Obama asks eurozone to keep Greece in until after election day
08-24-2012
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The Independent
The Obama administration will pressure European governments not to let Greece fall out of the eurozone before November's Presidential elections, British Government sources have suggested.
Representatives from the International Monetary Fund, t
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
TSA Swabbing Fliers’ Hands For Explosives During ‘Chat Downs’
08-24-2012
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InfoWars
A Michigan journalist suffering from a facial disability has described his treatment at the hands of a TSA behavioral detection officer as “frightening”, after he was detained and swabbed for explosives following a refusal to tell the agent what his
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Climate Change
Urban Sun Corridor 4 Degrees Warmer?
08-24-2012
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arclein
has established that local maximum summertime warming resulting from projected expansion of the urban Sun Corridor could approach 4 degrees Celsius. This finding establishes that this factor can be as important as warming due to increased levels of
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Deja Vu Again
08-24-2012
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arclein
Worried, Susan called her father later that day and asked if Pat had ever claimed to recognize strange people or places. "Oh, it happens every once in a while," he said. Susan asked if the episodes bothered him. "Only when she is determined to mak
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Heart Disease Vaccine?
08-24-2012
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arclein
is actually a normal protein that the body mistakes as being foreign and therefore launches an immune attack resulting in inflammation in the arteries. "Essentially, we're saying that there appears to be a strong autoimmune component in heart dise
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robert klein
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News Link • Archaeology
SE Asian Skull to 60000 BP
08-24-2012
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arclein
The study was led by University of Illinois anthropologist Laura Shackelford, who, along with anthropologist Fabrice Demeter from the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, were the first to look for ancient bones in Laos since the early 1900s.
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robert klein
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
The Trial (1962 film) - Director, Orson Welles - Writer, Franz Kafka
08-24-2012
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wikipedia
Plot: Josef K. (Anthony Perkins) is awakened in his apartment one morning by two police officers who inform him that he is under open arrest. The officers decline to identify the crime that Josef K. is being charged with, nor do they take him into cu
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Police State
FSN (Financial Survival Network) Interviews Silver Shield (Chris Duane) on Brandon Raub's Releas
08-24-2012
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www.dont-tread-on.me
The key take away was that his mother was smart enough to talk about it and get attentions of others or his lawyer says most people just disappear.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Government
Brandon Raub Released from Psychiatric Hospital; Did the FBI Go Too Far? (Video)
08-24-2012
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ww.news.gather.com
Marine Brandon Raub of Richmond, VA, was unlawfully detained and ordered to be released from a Psychiatric Hospital, according to Circuit Judge W. Allan Sharret on Thursday. Judge Sharret concluded that the involuntary commitment petition against Rau
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Police State
UPDATE: Judge Orders Release Of Detained Marine From Psychiatric Hospital
08-23-2012
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www.businessinsider.com
A circuit court judge has ordered that the Marine veteran detained over anti-government Facebook posts be released from a state psychiatric hospital because the original petition contained no facts, Catie Beck of CBS 6 News reports.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Food
We're Flabbergasted By This Nifty Trick To Separate Eggs
08-24-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Kim Bhasin
Grub Street recently highlighted this video of a cool trick to help you separate eggs. All it takes is an empty plastic soda bottle and a squeeze.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Employment & Jobs
Here's Why Companies Should Give Millennial Workers Everything They Ask For
08-24-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Vivian Giang
You can call them impatient, demanding and entitled, but if you don't offer incentives to retain young workers, someone else will.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Political Parties
Mitt Romney Has Already Begun Throwing Anti-Fed Republicans Under The Bus
08-24-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Joe Weisenthal
Back in September, during the early days of the heated GOP primary, Mitt Romney threw a bone to the hard right of the party by saying he'd fire Bernanke.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • European Union
Greece Really Is Going To Start Selling Islands
08-24-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Susan Daly
THE PRIME MINISTER of Greece has made a surprise announcement to Le Monde newspaper: that his country is ready to put some of its uninhabited islands up for sale.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Media: Internet
The 20 most-watched TED Talks to date
08-24-2012
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http://blog.ted.com,
TED is dedicated to ideas worth spreading. And that leaves many wondering exactly which ideas have been spread the most widely in the six years that TEDTalks videos have been available online.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Republican Party Changes Rules To Stop The Pauls
08-24-2012
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http://www.buzzfeed.com, Zeke Miller
The Republican National Committee's Rules Committee voted to require written certification that a presidential candidate has a plurality of delegates from five states in order to get a space on the convention ballot " a move intended to provide a war
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
NPR: Romney And GOP Strike Deal With Ron Paul Loyalists Before Convention
08-24-2012
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http://www.npr.org, by Liz Halloran
GOP officials and the Mitt Romney campaign have cut a deal with Texas Rep. Ron Paul's campaign to allow some " though not all " of Paul's delegates from Louisiana and Massachusetts to be seated at the Republican National Convention.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Daily Caller: Ron Paul Activists Uneasily Embrace GOP
08-24-2012
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http://www.dailypaul.com, P.Au.L
If Paul backers come away from Tampa empty-handed, it will bring doubts many of them still have about working within the GOP into the open and potentially divide the movement.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Nomination at Convention Moved up to Monday, Per Fox News
08-24-2012
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http://www.dailypaul.com, JO for Ron Paul
Carl Cameron just reported that they decided to move it up and get it out of the way since the roll call by state is such a long, tedious process plus they don't want any controversy/problems from Paul delegates.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Free Speech
Oath Keepers Support Marine Vet Brandon Raub, Victim of Soviet Style Pre-crime Detention
08-24-2012
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http://www.dailypaul.com, go213mph
Oath Keepers is coming to the aid of this young Marine veteran and our rallying cry will be "CHARGE HIM, OR RELEASE HIM."
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Delegates Must Indicate Their Candidate One Hour Before the Vote
08-24-2012
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http://www.dailypaul.com, destry9408
Attention delegates:
The games have started already. John Ryder, committeeman from Tennessee, tried to change the threshold to nominate Paul from 5 states to 10.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Get ready for QE3
08-24-2012
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http://www.marketwatch.com, By MarketWatch
Top officials of the Federal Reserve are leaning strongly toward a third round of bond buying by the Fed, known colloquially as QE3, according to the minutes of the Aug. 1 meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Bill of Rights
U.S. Marine Held In A Mental Hospital Against His Will Because Of Facebook Posts
08-24-2012
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http://www.dailypaul.com, DJP333
Ben Swann Reality Check takes a look at the case of U.S. Marine Brandon Raub who is being held in a mental hospital in Virginia over Facebook posts.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Transportation
Man Kicked Off Flight Over Anti-TSA Shirt
08-23-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Paul Joseph Watson
A man and his wife were treated as potential terrorists and kicked off a Delta Airlines flight over a satirical T-shirt because it made passengers and employees feel “very uncomfortable”.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Free Speech
Real Reason they Arrested Raub: Strip Him of His Right to Bear Arms
08-23-2012
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http://www.thedailybell.com, by Staff Report
Attention U.S. Military: You are Being Demonized. This is an Extremely Important Article ... It's now becoming overt.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Surveillance
The new totalitarianism of surveillance technology
08-23-2012
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http://www.guardian.co.uk, Naomi Wolf
If you think that 24/7 tracking of citizens by biometric recognition systems is paranoid fantasy, just read the industry newsletters.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Political Parties
Why the GOP Is Scared of Ron Paul and 4 Reasons He Might Still Get the 2012 Republican Nomination
08-23-2012
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http://www.dailypaul.com, IngotNews.com
Why the GOP Is Scared of Ron Paul and 4 Reasons He Might Still Get the 2012 Republican Nomination.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Kidnapped Marine's Mom blows off MSM for AVTM exclusive
08-23-2012
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http://www.dailypaul.com, DJP333
Brandon Raub's mother and family provide an update on the situation
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Government Waste
Governments Everywhere Are Wasting Money On The Dying Auto Industry
08-23-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Gregor MacDonald
India’s recent series of power blackouts, in which 600 million people lost electricity for several days, reminds us of the torrid pace at which populations in the developing world have moved onto the powergrid.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
A Terrifying New Poll Of Young Voters On The Economy
08-23-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Grace Wyler
Generation Opportunity, a right-leaning group that polls youth voter sentiment, is out with a new survey this morning that reveals some troubling insight into how young Americans feel about the state of the economy.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • History
Searching For Russia's Reclusive Math Genius
08-23-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Brett Forrest
Six years ago, Grigori Perelman shocked the world of mathematics: first by solving an unsolvable problem, and then by running from the fame and fortune that went with it. Where did he go?
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
ASU Student Says He Was Kicked Off Delta Flight Over Shirt Mocking the TSA
08-22-2012
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Phoenix New Times
An Arizona State University Ph.D. student says his tee-shirt mocking the Transportation Security Administration led to him and his wife getting kicked off his flight returning to Phoenix over the weekend.
It wasn't the TSA that kicked them off th
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Ronald Bogner
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
We're Not In A Recession Now, But We Will Be Soon
08-23-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Lance Roberts
There have been a few calls as of late (Hussman, ECRI, Shilling) stating that we are currently in the next recession.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Iran
This Award Winning British Speed Boat May Be Iran's Fiercest Weapon Against The US Navy
08-23-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Jon Stock
When the four-man crew of the Bradstone Challenger crossed the finish line at the Royal Yacht Squadron in Cowes on August 12 2005, spirits were high.
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News Link • Iraq
A Strategic Trade-Up
08-23-2012
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Lew Rockwell blog
Condoleezza Rice was asked if the war in Iraq was worth it? .... [Iraq] "becoming for instance the fourth-largest purchaser of American military equipment in the Middle East. That’s called a strategic trade-up....."
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News Link • Activism
Matt Akins: Wanted for Free Speech
08-23-2012
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The Agitator
My friend Mark Flakne has a post up about how the Columbia, Missouri police department targeted Matt Akins, a mutual friend and activist in Columbia. Akins runs a small nonprofit organization, Citizens for Justice, that records the cops.
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News Link • Corruption
Audit: Some D.C. tax officials could alter property data without being detected
08-23-2012
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New York Times
A handful of managers in the D.C. Office of Tax and Revenue had the ability to alter the assessed values of property in the city without leaving any trace of changes that were made, according to an internal audit obtained by The Washington Post.
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News Link • Corruption
MassGOP Chair and former CongressMEN could face jailtime for political and financial corruption
08-23-2012
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An explosive complaint filed in Superior Court could not only take down the current MassGOP Chairman Bob Maginn and 2 former Congressmen, Peter Blute and Peter Torkildsen, may end up in jail for political and financial corruption.
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Man wearing anti-TSA t-shirt refused boarding by Delta airlines
08-23-2012
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My wife and I had arrived at the airport to fly home to Phoenix after attending my wife’s grandfather’s funeral.. We had cleared the security checkpoint without incident, but while waiting at the gate, a Delta supervisor informed me my shirt made pa
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
The west's hypocrisy over Pussy Riot is breathtaking
08-23-2012
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The Guardian
Our courts now jail at the drop of a headline " for stealing water or abuse sent on Twitter. So who are we to condemn Russia?
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Recession imminent if ‘fiscal cliff’ of tax hikes, budget cuts not averted, CBO says
08-23-2012
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Washington Post
The US economy will hurtle into a recession if Congress fails to avert a series of tax increases and budget cuts, the Congressional Budget Office said, warning a fiscal impasse would have consequences even more dire than previously forecast.
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News Link • Sexuality: Sex and the Law
Spanier’s Lawyers Attack Freeh Findings
08-23-2012
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New York Times
Former Penn State president Spanier issued a searing rebuttal to findings by the former FBI director Freeh that Spanier and other top university officials had helped conceal allegations of child abuse involving a former assistant football coach
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News Link • Iran
U.N. Visit Will Set Back a Push to Isolate Iran
08-23-2012
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New York Times
Efforts by the United States and Israel to isolate Iran suffered a setback on when the United Nations announced the secretary general would join officials from 120 countries in Tehran for a summit meeting that Iran has trumpeted a vindication of its
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News Link • Police State
Disneyland acclimates Americans to troops on streets
08-22-2012
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www.libertyfight.com
Kids and adults alike interact with friendly 'Army troops' daily
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Army Sends Mobile 3-D Printing Labs to Afghanistan For On-Demand Gear
08-22-2012
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http://www.popsci.com By Colin Lecher
3-D printing has yielded items both fascinating and potentially troubling.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Criminal charges filed against German rabbi for performing circumcisions
08-22-2012
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http://www.timesofisrael.com, By Raphael Ahren
David Goldberg, who oversees a 400-member strong community in northern Bavaria, is the first mohel to be charged since Cologne court banned the ritual
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News Link • General Opinion
Listen to radios? Watch TVs? Not for Class of '16
08-22-2012
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http://hosted.ap.org, By DINESH RAMDE
Remember when suitcases had to be carried instead of rolled? Or when an airline ticket was a booklet of pages separated by carbon paper? Maybe you remember when Lou Gehrig held the Major League record for consecutive baseball games played.
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News Link • Afghanistan
I Went Back To Afghanistan With The US Marines And It's Worse There Than Ever
08-22-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Geoffrey Ingersoll
I spent four years in the Marine Corps covering everything from combat patrols in Iraq to commanding generals cutting ribbons. It was challenging, exciting, life-changing and boring in almost equal measure.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Warren Buffett Cancels A Municipal Debt Bet 5 Years Early
08-22-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Reuters
Berkshire Hathaway Inc. terminated a large wager on the municipal-bond market five years early, the Wall Street Journal quoted a person familiar with the transaction as saying.
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