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Date Sent: 2012-12-13
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Thursday, December 13, 2012 AM edition |
Why Not Push the Pentagon off the Fiscal Cliff? -- The Constitution’s Fatal Flaw
Obamacare just raised your health care premium by $63 -- US War Crimes Bring Huge War Profits -- For Lesser Crimes, Rethinking Life Behind Bars -- Honduras Ousts High Court Judges After Ruling on Police Purge -- Study Shows a Pattern of Risky Loans by F.H.A. -- 'Welfare Spending Equates to $168 Per Day for Every Household in Poverty' -- Pro-GMO Congress Critter Klobuchar Exposed! -- California bill, AB
17, introduces RFID drivers license for border Xing -- VIDEO:
Woman Brutally Tased By Police For Trying To Buy iPhones --
Private Spaceship Builders Split $30 Million in NASA Funds -- Sociophysicists Discover Universal Pattern of Voting Behavior --
Abraham Lincoln, Stepfather of Our Country -- Obdurate Washington --
Response to Questions on Libertarianism -- 330. Libertarian Anarchy -- Tiny, Convenient Terahertz
Microchips Can See Inside Objects -- These Terrifying Handcuffs Can
Shock And Drug Prisoners -- Ron Paul Joins Dennis Kucinich to Demand
Obama Drone Documents -- Taliban popular where US fought biggest
battle -- US Dutifully Offers to Replace Israeli Munitions Spent
on Gaza -- Putin rejects foreign advice on democracy -- Bar
Owner Tells Pot Smokers to Light Up -- President Obama Predicts
GOP Will Cave on Taxes -- Federal Reserve to spend $45B a
month to buy bonds, links rate hike to 6.5 pct. unemployment
AZ: America's First Monument to the Bill of Rights - Arizona Dedication Ceremony, Saturday December 15th
10:00 am; 2012 Arizona Activist Awards, Patriot Roast &
Fundraiser Saturday December 15th 6:00 pm - 10:00 pm
PA: East Coast Bitcoin Summit: Philadelphia, Dec. 15,
12:30 - 6PM
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News Link • Military
Why Not Push the Pentagon off the Fiscal Cliff?
12-12-2012
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theatlantic.com
The Pentagon is bracing for the fiscal cliff.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Constitution
The Constitution’s Fatal Flaw
12-12-2012
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Lewrockwell.com
Advocates for individual liberty and freedom have rightly found several flaws with the US Constitution, on philosophical and moral grounds as well as on practical grounds.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Healthcare
Obamacare just raised your health care premium by $63
12-12-2012
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Among the regulations being rushed out the door by the Department of Health and Human Services 32 months after Obamacare passed is a requirement that every plan in America be subject to a $63 fee.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
US War Crimes Bring Huge War Profits
12-12-2012
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Lew Rockwell blog
Now in Kosovo, Madeleine Albright's Albright Capital Management is duking it out with a firm tied to James W. Pardew, Clinton's special envoy to the Balkans, to secure purchase of the state telecommunications company. The deal could be worth nearly
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
For Lesser Crimes, Rethinking Life Behind Bars
12-12-2012
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New York Times
Yet the judge had no other option on that morning 15 years ago. As her stunned family watched, Ms. George, then 27, who had never been accused of violence, was led from the courtroom to serve a sentence of life without parole.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Honduras Ousts High Court Judges After Ruling on Police Purge
12-12-2012
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Reuters
Honduran lawmakers on Wednesday dismissed four Supreme Court judges who had declared unconstitutional a law designed to purge the country's police of corruption, deepening a conflict between the ruling party and the court.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Housing
Study Shows a Pattern of Risky Loans by F.H.A.
12-12-2012
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New York Times
A new and extensive analysis of 2.4 million loans insured by the Federal Housing Administration in recent years shows a pattern of risky lending that could generate $20 billion in losses and harm thousands of the nation’s most vulnerable borrowers. B
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Welfare: Social
'Welfare Spending Equates to $168 Per Day for Every Household in Poverty'
12-12-2012
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Weekly Standard
The amount of money spent on welfare programs equals, when converted to cash payments, about "$168 per day for every household in poverty," the minority side of the Senate Budget Committee finds. Here's a chart detailing the committee's findings:
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Corruption
Pro-GMO Congress Critter Klobuchar Exposed!
12-12-2012
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Farm Wars
Show us the tests you rely on that are conducted by the USDA, FDA and EPA on genetically modified food (GMOs). You can’t, Senator, because they don’t exist.
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Homeland Security
California bill, AB 17, introduces RFID drivers license for border crossing
12-12-2012
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UT San Diego
San Diego Assemblyman Ben Hueso is carrying a bill to launch an “enhanced driver’s license” program claiming it will boost California's ailing economy with trade.
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Sheila Dean
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News Link • Police State
VIDEO: Woman Brutally Tased By Police For Trying To Buy iPhones
12-12-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Steve Watson
50,000 volt shock for not obeying orders she could not understand
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Private Spaceship Builders Split $30 Million in NASA Funds
12-12-2012
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http://www.space.com, Staff
NASA has awarded $30 million to help three private companies ensure that their astronaut taxis are safe and reliable, agency officials announced today (Dec. 10).
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News Link • Voting and Elections
Sociophysicists Discover Universal Pattern of Voting Behaviour
12-12-2012
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http://www.technologyreview.com, The Physics arXiv
The same voting patterns crop up in every country that shares a particular type of electoral system, say sociophysicists
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News Link • History
Abraham Lincoln, Stepfather of Our Country
12-12-2012
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Lewrockwell.com
“Anyone who embarks on a study of Abraham Lincoln … must first come to terms with the Lincoln myth.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Congress-Congressmen
Obdurate Washington
12-12-2012
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Lewrockwell.com
With its power declining, Washington was not able any longer to keep Russia out of the World Trade Organization.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Philosophy: Liberalism
Response to Questions on Libertarianism
12-12-2012
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Lewrockwell.com
From time to time I receive challenging questions, objections, having to do with speeches I have given, articles or books I have published, previous columns on LewRockwell.com.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Underwater Exploration and Living
High-End Submersible Brings Luxury to a New Low
12-12-2012
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wired.com
A new submersible with a starting price of $2.46 million promises to bring the ocean closer than ever without sacrificing any of the comforts of home.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Technology: Software
New Simulator Showcases Mozilla’s Coming Firefox OS
12-12-2012
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webmonkey.com
Mozilla has released version 1.0 of its Firefox OS Simulator, a new add-on for Firefox that makes it easy for web developers to start building apps for Mozilla’s coming mobile Firefox OS.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Robots and Artificial Intelligence
Curiosity’s Cousins: Autonomous Polar Robots Explore Earth’s Extremes
12-12-2012
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Wired.com
Earth’s poles are the wheeling grounds for two polar rovers: solar-powered Cool Robot and its younger cousin Yeti.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Tiny, Convenient Terahertz Microchips Can See Inside Objects
12-12-2012
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popsci.com
Caltech scientists build the world's first integrated terahertz scanners, the size of a fingertip.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
These Terrifying Handcuffs Can Shock And Drug Prisoners
12-12-2012
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popsci.com
An Arizona-based company recently filed a patent for high-tech futuristic handcuffs that are, in a word, terrifying.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Obama Administration
Ron Paul Joins Dennis Kucinich to Demand Obama Drone Documents
12-12-2012
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news.yahoo.com
Libertarian minded Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, and liberal Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, would seem like an odd pair on any issue.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Afghanistan
Taliban popular where US fought biggest battle
12-12-2012
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news.yahoo.com
Nearly three years after U.S.-led forces launched the biggest operation of the war to clear insurgents, foster economic growth and set a model for the rest of Afghanistan,
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Foreign Policy
US Dutifully Offers to Replace Israeli Munitions Spent on Gaza
12-12-2012
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antiwar.com
US to sell Israel $647 million worth of bombs and munitions to renew stock after Operation Pillar of Defense
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Religion: Unregistered Churches
'Jedi' religion most popular alternative faith
12-12-2012
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telegraph.co.uk
Today's Census figures show that 176,632 people in England and Wales identify themselves as Jedi Knights, making it the most popular faith in the "Other Religions" category on the Census and the seventh most popular faith overall.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Putin rejects foreign advice on democracy
12-12-2012
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Associated Press
President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday angrily rejected what he described as attempts to enforce foreign patterns of democracy on Russia and vowed to preserve the nation's identity against interference from abroad.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Drug War
Bar Owner Tells Pot Smokers to Light Up
12-12-2012
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cnbc.com
Thanks to a successful ballot initiative last month, Washington state residents can legally smoke marijuana in the privacy of their living rooms as of Thursday.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
EXCLUSIVE: President Obama Predicts GOP Will Cave on Taxes
12-12-2012
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abcnews.go.com
As the clock ticks toward a tax hike on all Americans in 20 days, President Obama predicted Republicans would join Democrats to extend current rates for 98 percent of earners before the end of the year.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Federal Reserve to spend $45B a month to buy bonds, links rate hike to 6.5 pct. unemployment
12-12-2012
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Washington Post
The Federal Reserve sent its clearest signal to date Wednesday that it will keep interest rates super-low to boost the U.S. economy even after the job market has improved significantly.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Healthcare
Expanding Foam Stops Internal Bleeding in Soldiers
12-12-2012
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Daily Tech
The foam can reduce blood loss six-fold and boost the rate of survival at 3 hours post-injury to 72%.
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • Military
New Camouflage Technology Could Make US Troops Invisible
12-11-2012
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Business Insider
The military has done everything possible to develop a uniform that helps troops blend into whatever environment they might be in, but a Canadian firm may be the one who beat countless development contractors working on hefty tax payer budgets.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • China
Investors Take To The Streets In China As 'Ponzi' Wealth Management Products Fail
12-11-2012
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Business Insider
Investors knew something was amiss when on November 26th, the wealth management product (WMP) they had bought from Huaxia Bank that promised 11% returns, simply didn't pay out.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Currencies
Inflationary Deflation: Creating A New Bubble In Money
12-11-2012
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
Excessive monetary stimulus and low interest rates create financial bubbles.
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News Link • Employee and Employer Relations
From Good Jobs To Bad Jobs To No Jobs - The Tragic Downfall Of The American Worker
12-11-2012
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http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com, By Michael
There was a time in America when virtually anyone that wanted a job could go out and get one and the United States boasted the largest and most prosperous middle class in the history of the world.
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Show This To Anyone That Believes That Taxes Are Too Low
12-11-2012
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http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com, By Michael
Every year average Americans pay dozens of different types of taxes, and yet many of our politicians are very open about the fact that they want to raise rates even higher and invent even more ways to bleed us all dry.
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News Link • Anonymous
Anonymous May Attack UN Agency Over Internet Rules
12-11-2012
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http://www.technewsdaily.com, by Ben Weitzenkorn
A security expert thinks the hacktivist movement Anonymous is planning an imminent cyberattack against the United Nations' International Telecommunication Union.
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News Link • Surveillance
Judge Napolitano: "Tell the Orwellians at Verizon to Go Take a Hike"
12-11-2012
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by fonzdrew
Judge Napolitano: "Tell the Orwellians at Verizon to Go Take a Hike"
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News Link • Military
Former US president slams drone attacks
12-11-2012
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http://www.thenews.com, From Web Edition
Former US President Jimmy Carter has slammed American assassination drone strikes in other countries, saying that killing civilians in such attacks would in fact nurture terrorism.
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News Link • Government
"When the president does it, that means that it is not illegal."
12-11-2012
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by DevinUp
An oldie but a goodie (a baddie?). I've been reading/watching about Obama's kill list, drones, indefinite detention, Julian Assange, Bradley Manning, etc. lately and that quote kept popping into my head.
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News Link • Climate Change
Doha Didn't Do So Well But the Elites Will Surely Strike Again
12-11-2012
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http://www.thedailybell.com, by Staff Report
The climate change meetings that took place recently at Doha proved difficult once again for the power elite " the one that wants to run the world and is using enforced scarcity to help it do so.
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News Link • Government
Is Government Really Necessary? (video)
12-09-2012
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The International Libertarian
The lively Greater Philadelphia Thinking Society discussion happened on December 9, 2012. (http://www.meetup.com/thinkingsociety/events/85461612/) Below is the description of the event on the Meetup page:
"Most discussions about government start
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Darren Wolfe
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News Link • Voting: Vote Fraud
New Evidence of Voting Fraud with Prop 37 Initiative to Label GMO’s
12-11-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, theintelhub.com
After election day most of us heard that Prop 37, the initiative to label GMO foods failed to gather enough support to get a majority vote at the ballot box, and after that it more or less disappeared from the news altogether.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Syria
PlayStation-Controlled DIY Tank May Be the Wildest Weapon Yet in the Syria War
12-11-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By Robert Beckhusen
Syria’s rebels may have taken the concept of a videogame a tad too far.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Military
Air Force May Be Developing Stealth Drones in Secret
12-11-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By David Axe
The Air Force’s multi-billion-dollar drone fleets may have helped against the insurgents of Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Robert Lee
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