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Date Sent: 2012-05-22
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Monday, May 21, 2012 PM edition |
NATO: European missile defense shield up and running -- NATO. "1984" Revisited. When "War is Peace"
Ron Paul going full force to Republican National Convention -- Judge Denies Tombstone (AZ) Water -- 05-21-12 -- Susan Lindauer - Drew Phillips - (Video Loaded) -- Gmail's Security Hole Could Lead to Mass Harvesting of Accounts -- European Physicists Smash Chinese Teleportation Record -- Chicago in a jam: Security services to block cell phone towers ahead of NATO summit? -- The case against 'indefinite detention' -- Italian court rules MMR vaccine did trigger autism -- Help Translate the Silver Calculator App. -- Homeland Security in the Land of the Free -- Cable companies expand free Wi-Fi -- Assange Episode 6: Ecuador’s fight against its media vultures -- Social Nightmare Foretold if Greece Heads for Euro Exit -- Ninety-six soldiers reported killed in Yemen attack -- Vatican slams new book of leaked documents as ‘criminal’ -- Bilderberg Agenda Attracts National Exposure -- Chicago Under Siege - by Stephen Lendman
early tomorrow morning: SpaceX readies (again) for historic space station flight
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News Link • NATO
European missile defense shield up and running " NATO
05-21-2012
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http://www.rt.com
The European missile shield is up and running, says NATO Secretary-General Fogh Rasmussen, who announced its “interim capability” to shoot down incoming missiles.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • NATO
NATO. "1984" Revisited. When "War is Peace"
05-21-2012
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http://www.globalresearch.ca, by Ross Ruthenberg
Considering the current state of world peace and NATO's Responsibility to Protect (R2P) policy and to maintain a proper sense of balance, George Orwell's book "1984" should be reviewed periodically.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
SpaceX readies (again) for historic space station flight
05-21-2012
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http://www.foxnews.com, By Clara Moskowitz
SpaceX engineers have replaced a faulty engine valve on a private rocket carrying the first commercial space capsule bound for the International Space Station following the last-second abort during an attempted liftoff Saturday, May 19.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Ron Paul going full force to Republican National Convention
05-21-2012
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www.youtube.com - RT.com
Ron Paul is the candidate that continues to be ignored by the mainstream media, but he is still in the game. The Texas congressman and his supporters continue to push towards the Republican National Convention
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Events: Arizona
Judge Denies Tombstone (AZ) Water
05-21-2012
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www.finance.townhall.com
Last year, on June 16, the massive Monument Fire and the subsequent monsoon rains destroyed the pipelines that bring the water to Tombstone and boulders the size of Volkswagens blocked access to the springs"with some of the springs being buried under
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News Link • Transportation
Delphi gasoline-injection engine technique rivals hybrid's edge
05-21-2012
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http://phys.org, by Nancy Owano
Running a diesel like engine on gasoline is something Delphi is doing in notable fashion. They claim they are on to a promising way to enjoy an engine that gives the vehicle owner high efficiency and low emissions.
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News Link • Biology, Botany and Zoology
Researchers aim to assemble the tree of life for all 2 million named species
05-21-2012
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http://www.bio-medicine.org, Robin Ann Smith
Durham, NC A new initiative aims to build a grand tree of life that brings together everything scientists know about how all living things are related, from the tiniest bacteria to the tallest tree.
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News Link • Biology, Botany and Zoology
Bats 'Taste' Prey Before Eating
05-21-2012
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http://www.livescience.com, Staff
How do bats know what they sense with echolocation is edible? They are able to 'taste' the chemical makeup of their prey before eating, to check that it isn't toxic, a new study indicates.
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News Link • Religion: Believers
Islam and Greco Roman Civilization
05-21-2012
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arclein
He shows convincingly that archaeological excavations paint a very clear picture of devastation brought by the Arab conquests throughout the entire Mediterranean region, from Syria to Spain, in the seventh century AD.
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News Link • China
Chinese Real Estate Market Consolidating
05-21-2012
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arclein
At the time I first saw this dynamic in the data, when the Q1 numbers came out, I figured it would take several months to begin playing out. But the April numbers suggest it is already happening.
Chovanec notes if real estate investment drops by 1
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
EEStor Breaks Silence
05-21-2012
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arclein
owever, the most recently produced versions of the EESU layers have been tested by EEStor and in EEStor's opinion do not yet achieve the level of permittivity necessary for commercial production. EEStor is now working on improvements in the film m
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robert klein
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News Link • Archaeology
Balinese Mayan Bronze Age Linkage
05-21-2012
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arclein
ne of the greatest archaeological riddles"and one of the grossest academic omissions"of our time is the untold story of the parallel ruins left by two seemingly unrelated ancient civilizations: the ancient Mayans on one side of the Pacific Ocean and
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Stress Turns Men Into Social Butterflies
05-21-2012
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http://www.livescience.com, Staff
Stressed men are often thought to be more aggressive, but new research indicates this common belief doesn't hold up. Researchers found that stressed men are actually more social than their non-stressed counterparts.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Couples See Anger But Miss Sadness When Fighting
05-21-2012
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http://www.livescience.com, Staff
Married couples are generally pretty good at recognizing each other's emotions while they are arguing, new research suggests. But if your partner is angry, that might tell more about the overall climate of your marriage than about what your partner i
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
What Happens to All That Volcanic Ash?
05-21-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By Erik Klemetti
If you’ve ever seen an explosive volcanic eruption " either live or on video " you know that there is an awful lot of ash produced. All that magma (well, most of it) that is erupting from the volcano is being fragmented into tiny glass shards that we
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News Link • History
May 21, 1927: Lucky Lindy Flies His Way Into the Celebrity Ranks
05-21-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By Tony Long
1927: Charles Lindbergh lands at Le Bourget airfield outside of Paris, completing the first nonstop transatlantic flight and becoming an instant international celebrity.
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News Link • Communications
Nexus Smartphones: Who Wins, Who Loses if Google Launches Android 5.0 in Multiple Handsets?
05-21-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By Nathan Olivarez-Giles
This fall, with the expected release of Android 5.0, Google might completely reinvent its Nexus smartphone program
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
How Apple and Microsoft Armed 4,000 Patent Warheads
05-21-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By Robert McMillan
In many ways, Scott Widdowson is your typical electrical engineer. Most days, when the weather’s good, he bikes the 15 miles along the Ottawa River to his company’s offices in the west end of the Canadian capital. Once there, he settles in for a day
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News Link • General Opinion
Teach Your Children Well
05-21-2012
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http://survivalblog.com, by Vicki W
My daughter was recently in an Earth Science class where a discussion took place. The other students didn’t know that the dandelion with the yellow flower and the dandelion with the white seeds were one and the same.
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News Link • World News
World's Largest Solar Eclipse Party Draws Thousands to Stadium
05-21-2012
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http://www.space.com, by Stephanie Pappas
Thousands of people turned their eyes to the sky at the University of Colorado's Folsom Field football stadium here Sunday (May 20) to watch the moon slip in front of the sun to create a spectacular "crescent sun."
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News Link • NATO
Chicago in a jam: Security services to block cell phone towers ahead of NATO summit?
05-21-2012
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www.rt.com
Reports suggest local law enforcement agencies are considering shutting down cell phone services in the city over the weekend and while it will most likely be very effective, many are questioning if the move is legitimate.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Police State
The case against 'indefinite detention'
05-21-2012
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www.dyn.politico.com
We have proposed an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act, which the House is due to consider Thursday, that will protect the right to a charge and a trial for all people arrested in the U.S
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Vaccines and Vaccinations
Italian court rules MMR vaccine did trigger autism
05-21-2012
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www.nyrnaturalnews.com
In what may be a ground-breaking decision, the Italian Court of Rimini has ruled that causation between an MMR vaccine and the resulting autism in a young child “has been established.”
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Constitution
Your choice: Gandhi or “Else…” Liberty through peace, ...or not. Webinar TONIGHT 7 pm EST
05-21-2012
Either we embrace the principles and methods used (**successfully**) by Gandhi or Tyranny prevails. We need a well-organized, mass movement: See the Plan, Live Webinar TONIGHT 5/21, 7 pm EST
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Bob Schulz
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News Link • Books
Review of “Classified Woman: The Sibel Edmonds Story” - A Hard Road to Reality
05-20-2012
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Cody Hall
“A Hard Road to Reality” - by Cody Hall -
Sibel Edmond’s story is one that history knows all too well. So long as the people of this world are indoctrinated into accepting the illusion of authority, there will be stories of those strong willed peop
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News Link • Media: Radio
Drunk On Liberty Episode 38
05/21/2012
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www.drunkonliberty.com
Ameri-Can Craft Beer Festival, City bans texting while walking, bride drinks beer, man sells dead babies online, 7yr old girl threatens parents, many beer reviews from the festival, Anchor Summer Beer, Door to Door for raw milk, verizon killing unlim
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News Link • Homeland Security
Homeland Security in the Land of the Free
05-21-2012
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www.batr.org
The horror stories about the Transportation Security Administration are indisputable. In the post 911 environment, civil liberties routinely ignored or eliminated, become a mere memory in a country that once prided itself as the beacon of freedom for
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News Link • Just For Fun!
Facebook's CEO Mark Zuckerberg Marries Sweetheart
05-21-2012
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www.cnbc.com
Zuckerberg and 27-year-old Priscilla Chan tied the knot at a small ceremony at his Palo Alto, Calif., home, capping a busy week for the couple.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Internet
Cable companies expand free Wi-Fi
05-21-2012
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http://news.cnet.com,
Five of the nation's largest cable companies are partnering to allow their subscribers free access to each others' Wi-Fi hot spots in cities across the U.S.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
Assange Episode 6: Ecuador’s fight against its media vultures
05-21-2012
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http://www.rt.com
Is it always bad govt. vs. good free media? In The World Tomorrow, President Rafael Correa of Ecuador tells Julian Assange it is time to get rid of false stereotypes depicting wicked governments persecuting saint-like journalists and news outlets.
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News Link • Death
Bee Gee Robin Gibb Dies Of Cancer At 62
05-21-2012
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http://www.npr.org, by Elizabeth Blair
Robin Gibb of the Bee Gees has died.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Media: Internet
Media Trackers, the Right's New Oppo-Research Attack Dog
05-21-2012
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http://www.motherjones.com, By Andy Kroll
Blog network launched by a former RNC staffer aims to capitalize on"if not create"liberal scandals.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Unplugging These 6 Gadgets Will Cut Your Electricity Bill
05-21-2012
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http://www.motherjones.com, By Kiera Butler
We all know we're supposed to unplug our technological gadgets when we're not using them, and back in the days when we only had a few home electronics"a TV here, a stereo there"that wasn't so hard to do.
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News Link • Voting and Elections
Romney, Obama, and Voters: It's Complicated
05-21-2012
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http://www.motherjones.com, By David Corn
Are voters torn between the guy they like better and the fellow they hope could do more for the economy?
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News Link • Death
"I Always Knew Somebody Would Get Killed Inside That Place"
05-21-2012
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http://www.motherjones.com, By Jim Morris
A deadly explosion at a steel plant reveals a workplace safety system where inspections are rushed and penalties are weak or nonexistent.
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News Link • European Union
Social Nightmare Foretold if Greece Heads for Euro Exit
05-21-2012
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by Harry Papachristou and Giles Elgood
In Athens, the homeless are on the streets in growing numbers, soup kitchens feed twice as many people as a year ago, and the poor are diving into garbage bins in search of scrap they can sell.
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News Link • NATO
Drones of Its Own
05-21-2012
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http://www.commondreams.org
Part of its 'Allied Ground Surveillance' system, the five Global Hawk UAVs will cost $1.7 Billion
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News Link • Corruption
Vatican slams new book of leaked documents as ‘criminal’
05-21-2012
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http://www.rt.com
The Vatican is threatening to take legal action against those responsible for publishing a new book of leaked internal documents.
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
‘Ring of fire’ eclipse awes people…and lemurs (PHOTOS, VIDEO)
05-21-2012
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http://www.rt.com
Skywatchers from Mount Fuji to the Grand Canyon enjoyed a treat: the moon nearly blotting out the sun to create a dramatic “ring of fire” over a narrow strip of eastern Asia and the western United States.
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News Link • TERRORISM
Ninety-six soldiers reported killed in Yemen attack
05-21-2012
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http://www.rt.com
The death toll from a suicide blast in Yemen has risen to 96 soldiers. Over 300 were wounded.
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News Link • New World Order
Bilderberg Agenda Attracts National Exposure
05-21-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Paul Joseph Watson
Romney policy advisors on defensive over secretive group’s power
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News Link • Wallet Voting
Viva La Dime Card LOV3olution,
05-19-2012
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http://donttreadonmeme.com
We set out for nothing short of a world wide cultural LOV3olution, Welcome to French Silver Dime cards.
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Arizona's Secretary Of State Threatens To Keep President Obama Off The Ballot
05-19-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Brett LoGiurato
Talking Points Memo this morning pointed to this interview yesterday between Arizona conservative radio host and Secretary of State Ken Bennett.
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Civics 101: Cutting Defense Means Not Voting for $642.5 Billion for US Military
05-19-2012
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commondreams, by Carolyn Eisenberg and Gael Murphy
Some readers probably heard on the news how the Democrats were hopping mad when the House Republicans voted recently to overturn the “sequester” on the Pentagon budget, enacted at the end of the year as part of the deficit reduction deal.
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News Link • Privacy Rights
Facebook faces US $15 billion lawsuit
05-19-2012
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http://www.rt.com
Tracking users after they log out and violating US wiretapping laws
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News Link • Iran
Iran, Syria among top for G-8 and NATO
05-18-2012
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AP
President Obama and leaders of other major industrial powers stepped outside discussions of European economic woes and Afghanistan that will dominate a long weekend of summitry for a look at options to solidify world resolve against development of an
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News Link • Police State
House Vote Upholds Indefinite Detention of US Citizens
05-18-2012
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New York Times
The House turned back an unusual coalition of liberals and conservatives and voted down legislation to reject explicitly the indefinite detention of terrorism suspects apprehended on United States soil.
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News Link • Afghanistan
France Tells Obama Afghan Troop Pullout Will Proceed
05-18-2012
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New York Times
François Hollande used his first visit with President Obama as France’s president on Friday to restate his pledge to withdraw combat forces from Afghanistan by the end of the year, two years earlier than originally planned.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Paul Rusconi, Malibu Artist, Cleared Of Allegations Of Raping His Twin Daughters (VIDEO)
05-18-2012
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Huffington Post
After being cleared Friday of allegations that he raped his 20-month-old twin daughters, famed Malibu photographer Paul Rusconi cried.
It's been almost a year since distant family members, the nanny who took care of Rusconi's two girls, and her hu
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News Link • Gold and Silver
James Turk Answers Doug Casey
05-18-2012
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Free Gold Money Report
He concludes by asking some questions he would like answered in order to convince him that the gold price is manipulated. Because Doug is a friend, I have prepared this response to him to provide my perspective on this matter.
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Opinion • Humor
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
May 20, 2012 Edition
05-18-2012
John Semmens
Obama Gains Key Reelection Endorsements
The Communist Party of the United States announced it is supporting Barack Obama's reelection bid. “It used to be that we had to run our own candidates for public office,” recounted Sam Webb, chairman of the
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News Link • Energy
Craig Venter Wants to Solve the World’s Energy Crisis
05-18-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By Thomas Goetz
There is one version of Craig Venter’s life story where he would’ve been a dutiful scientist at the National Institutes of Health, a respected yet anonymous researcher in genetics, perhaps. Thankfully, Venter saw that story line developing"and set ab
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