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Date Sent: 2012-11-14
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Wednesday, November 14, 2012 |
Kantara floats voluntary-compulsory authentication for social safety nets
‘Destroy the idols,’ Egyptian jihadist calls for removal of Sphinx, Pyramids -- Archaic Gambling Laws -- Army Seeks Death Penalty in Afghan Massacre -- Online Privacy Issue Is Also in Play in Petraeus Scandal -- Video: Police shoot dog in Omaha -- Scandal probe ensnares commander of U.S., NATO troops in Afghanistan -- Police State North America: The U.S.-Canada Integrated Cybersecurity Agenda -- Lobbyists Feign Budget 'Fix': Trojan Horse Filled with Corporate Tax Breaks -- DHS Labels New York Food Carts As Possible Terrorist Access Points -- San Diego Residents Face 6 Years In Prison For Washing Their Car -- Why Obama Wants Your Guns…And The Rest of Your Freedoms -- Marc Faber: Prepare for a Massive Market Meltdown -- FEMA orders residents to stop giving out supplies after Hurricane Sandy -- TSA Opt Out and Film Week Goes Viral! -- Doug Stanhope -
"Liberty" -- Court motion seeks to halt vote-counting in CD 2 race --
All The Reasons Pot Is Good For You -- Video Update: Ron Paul on the
Alex Jones Show - 11-09-12 -- Karl Rove The First Casualty In GOP's Civil War -- Ron Paul: Secession an Important
Constitutional Principle -- Woman allegedly runs over husband for
not voting -- Tesla's Model S Just Won A Major Car Award — Here's
Why It's A Big Deal -- Antivirus Software Pioneer John McAfee
Believes He Is About To Die At The Hands Of Police -- FBI Abuse Of
The Surveillance State Is The Real Scandal Needing Investigation -- Google Says Governments Are Trying To Spy On Citizens Now More Than
Ever -- The Middle Class Are Losing Their Faith In College Education
-- Ron Paul Debates Obama on Marijuana Legalization -- In Praise of Price Gouging
-- W.H. Petition Calls for Stripping Citizenship and Exile for
Anyone Who Signs Petition to Secede -- The
Patent Problem -- American Expatriation
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News Link • Cyberspace and the New Economy
Kantara floats voluntary-compulsory authentication for social saftey nets
11-13-2012
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BeatTheChip.org
NSTIC, the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace, is working with Kantara to bring an authentication credential system online for US social service recipients. Kantara's involvement would make transactional monitoring between recipi
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News Link • World News
‘Destroy the idols,’ Egyptian jihadist calls for removal of Sphinx, Pyramids
11-13-2012
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An Egyptian jihad leader, with self-professed links to the Taliban, called for the “destruction of the Sphinx and the Giza Pyramids in Egypt,” drawing ties between the Egyptian relics and Buddha statues, local media reported this week.
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News Link • Government
Archaic Gambling Laws
11-13-2012
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Lew Rockwell blog
During Prohibition, my grandmother made beer in a hidden room and sold it locally, until a neighbor snitched on her. My mom, a youngster, used to distribute the beer in pails. My dad drove a taxi for a short spell and he too carried booze.
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News Link • Afghanistan
Army Seeks Death Penalty in Afghan Massacre
11-13-2012
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New York Times
A military prosecutor said the evidence against Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, presented in a pretrial inquiry into the killings of 16 Afghan civilians, was so damning that the case should go forward as a capital crime.
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News Link • Surveillance
Online Privacy Issue Is Also in Play in Petraeus Scandal
11-13-2012
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New York Times
“There should be an investigation not of the personal behavior of General Petraeus and General Allen, but of what surveillance powers the F.B.I. used to look into their private lives,” the executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union, sai
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Video: Police shoot dog in Omaha
11-13-2012
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Grainy as it is, the video shows officers stopping the man, who they described as drunk and defiant. One officer takes him down; the other shoots the dog he was walking. Of course they arrest the dog owner for resisting arrest.
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News Link • Heroes
Scandal probe ensnares commander of U.S., NATO troops in Afghanistan
11-13-2012
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Craig Whitlock, Washington Post
The FBI probe into the sex scandal that led to the resignation of CIA director David Petraeus has expanded to ensnare Gen. John R. Allen, the commander of U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan, the Pentagon announced early Tuesday.
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News Link • Surveillance
Police State North America: The U.S.-Canada Integrated Cybersecurity Agenda
11-13-2012
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Dana Gabriel
As part of the Beyond the Border initiative, the U.S. and Canada are strengthening cybersecurity cooperation. In a move that received little attention, both countries recently announced a joint cybersecurity action plan. Cyber threats know no nationa
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News Link • Philosophy: Fascism
Lobbyists Feign Budget 'Fix': Trojan Horse Filled with Corporate Tax Breaks
11-13-2012
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http://www.commondreams.org, Common Dreams staff
As boisterous threats of the 'fiscal cliff' persist and progressive voices urge President Barack Obama to avoid falling for shortsighted solutions to illusory ultimatums
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News Link • Homeland Security
DHS Labels New York Food Carts As Possible Terrorist Access Points
11-13-2012
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http://govtslaves.info, Tim Cushing
It’s interesting (or maybe just kind of sad) that various government agencies see possible terrorists everywhere but rarely, if ever, catch one.
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News Link • Government
San Diego Residents Face 6 Years In Prison For Washing Their Car
11-13-2012
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http://govtslaves.info, Paul Joseph Watson
San Diegans could face 6 years in prison and fines of $100,000 dollars a day for washing their car in the driveway or failing to pick up dog poop under new EPA-mandated environmental regulations related to water quality.
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News Link • Internet
Europe Proposes Cheap Quantum Optics Link to the Space Station
11-13-2012
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technologyreview.com, The Physics arXiv Blog
The ability to send entangled photons to the ISS would be a stepping stone to a global quantum internet and could test the link between quantum mechanics and relativity
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Obama Administration
Why Obama Wants Your Guns…And The Rest of Your Freedoms
11-13-2012
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prisonplanet.com, Paul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones
Second Amendment in the crosshairs
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Marc Faber: Prepare for a Massive Market Meltdown
11-13-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Holly Ellyatt
The markets are going to go into meltdown soon, so expect stocks to lose 20 percent of their value, Marc Faber, author of the Gloom, Boom and Doom report told CNBC on Tuesday.
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News Link • F.E.M.A.
FEMA orders residents to stop giving out supplies after Hurricane Sandy
11-13-2012
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www.prisonplanet.com, Shelter Island Reporter
Televised and published pictures plus personal appeals of Hurricane Sandy victims in New York and New Jersey touched the hearts of Shelter Islanders who generously filled truckloads of clothing and other goods bound for Island Park and Long Beach las
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News Link • Activism
Signs! Signs! Dedicated to Michael Murphy!
11/13/2012
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Chris Haskell - Real News Tucson
Signs! Signs! Everywhere a sign! This video is dedicated to Michael Murphy ....because we will recycle these signs and make them into signs Waking people up about Chemtrails! (Geo-Engineering is the patented name) Yes it now looks like he (Michael Mu
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News Link • Activism
TSA Opt Out and Film Week Goes Viral!
11-13-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com
A new bill introduced today by Rep. David Simpson (R-Longview) would criminalize invasive TSA pat downs in Texas and put the Lone Star State on course for another collision with the feds who last year torpedoed similar legislation after threatening t
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News Link • Biology, Botany and Zoology
Chimp and Human Gut Bacteria Nearly Identical
11-13-2012
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LiveScience
The bacterial colonies that populate the chimpanzee intestinal tract are mirror images of those found in the human gut, suggest gut bacteria patterns evolved before chimps and humans split and went their evolutionarily separate ways.
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News Link • Just For Fun!
Doug Stanhope - Liberty (Language Warning)
11-13-2012
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http://www.youtube.com, Isaac Davies
Excerpt from Doug Stanhope's "Deadbeat Hero" (very funny and poignant from a contemporary libertarian comic)
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Court motion seeks to halt vote-counting in CD 2 race
11-13-2012
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Arizona Republic
Republican attorneys have filed a court motion in southern Arizona to halt the counting of some 130 ballots in Congressional District 2, where GOP candidate Martha McSally fights to gain an edge over opponent Rep. Ron Barber, D-Ariz.
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Video Update: Ron Paul on the Alex Jones Show - 11-09-12
11-13-2012
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http://www.dailypaul.com, emalvini
Ron Paul on The Alex Jones Show 11/9/12
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
Letter Re: The Core Kit: First Aid and Beyond
11-13-2012
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http://www.survivalblog.com, S.H. in Texas
As a pharmacist of more years than I like to admit, I would like to make a few comments and additions regarding Jason J.'s recent excellent post on "The Core Kit - First Aid and Beyond".
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News Link • Political Parties
Karl Rove The First Casualty In GOP's Civil War
11-13-2012
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http://www.dailypaul.com, P.Au.L
Grassroots Republican operatives and Movement conservatives are quickly turning against the GOP Establishment in the wake of the party's expensive defeat this election cycle.
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News Link • Political Parties
A reformed Republican party
11-13-2012
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http://www.washingtonpost.com, By George F. Will
Nothing’s impossible I have found,For when my chin is on the ground, I pick myself up, Dust myself off,Start all over again." from the 1936 movie“Swing Time”
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Ron Paul: Secession an Important Constitutional Principle
11-13-2012
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http://www.dailypaul.com, myajace
Congressman and former Presidential candidate Dr. Ron Paul Talks about Succession and the true socialist origins of the United States "Pledge of Allegiance" to the flag.
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Woman allegedly runs over husband for not voting
11-13-2012
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http://www.azfamily.com, by Catherine Holland
A Mesa man is in critical condition after his wife allegedly ran him down in a parking lot because he did not vote.
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News Link • Transportation
Tesla's Model S Just Won A Major Car Award " Here's Why It's A Big Deal
11-13-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Alex Davies
At an event in New York City last night, Tesla Motors' Model S was named Car of the Year by Motor Trend magazine.
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News Link • Conspiracies
Antivirus Software Pioneer John McAfee Believes He Is About To Die At The Hands Of Police
11-13-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Nicholas Carlson
Antivirus software entrepreneur John McAfee is reportedly on the run from the police in Belize.
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News Link • Government
FBI Abuse Of The Surveillance State Is The Real Scandal Needing Investigation
11-13-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Glenn Greenwald
The Petraeus scandal is receiving intense media scrutiny obviously due to its salacious aspects, leaving one, as always, to fantasize about what a stellar press corps we would have if they devoted a tiny fraction of this energy to dissecting non-sex
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News Link • Surveillance
Google Says Governments Are Trying To Spy On Citizens Now More Than Ever
11-13-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Dominic Rushe
Government surveillance of citizens' online lives is rising sharply around the world, according to Google's latest report on requests to remove content and hand over user data to official agencies.
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News Link • General Opinion
The Middle Class Are Losing Their Faith In College Education
11-13-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Mandi Woodruff
Citing rising tuition costs and a poor job market, 20 percent of middle class parents say they don't consider a college education to be a worthy investment.
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News Link • Sexuality: Sex and the Law
There Is One Sex Scandal In American History That Tops The Petraeus Affair
11-13-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Constitution Daily
The current sex scandal involving the C.I.A., the F.B.I., the military, and possibly several private citizens isn’t the first in Washington, but it has some things in common with the huge scandal that hit Alexander Hamilton more than 200 years ago.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
In Praise of Price Gouging
11-13-2012
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http://www.thedailybell.com, by Ron Paul
As the northeastern United States continues to recover from Hurricane Sandy, we hear the usual outcry against individuals and companies who dare to charge market prices for goods such as gasoline.
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News Link • Secession
W.H. Petition Calls for Stripping Citizenship and Exile for Anyone Who Signs Petition to Secede
11-13-2012
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http://www.weeklystandard.com, By DANIEL HALPER
A White House petition gathering force calls for citizenship to be stripped and exile for anyone who signs a petition in favor of a state's secession.
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News Link • Inventions
FYI: What's The Lightest Metal On Earth?
11-13-2012
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http://www.popsci.com, By Krislyn Placide
This material is 100 times lighter than styrofoam--but it's also really strong!
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News Link • Future Predictions
Google Foretells Big Switch to Networks of the Future
11-13-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By Cade Metz
In the summer of 1998, when Larry Page and Sergey Brin were drafting an official business plan for the company they hoped to build around their Google search engine, they asked Guido Appenzeller for a little help.
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News Link • Obama Administration
Extend and Pretend
11-13-2012
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http://lewrockwell.com, by Peter Schiff
Now that President Obama has been re-elected, the media is finally free to focus on something besides the clueless undecided voters in Ohio, Florida, and Colorado.
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News Link • Emmigration
American Expatriation
11-13-2012
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http://lewrockwell.com, by Adam Bilzerian
In 2011, more than 1,800 Americans renounced their citizenships. This figure exceeded the numbers from 2007, 2008, and 2009 combined.
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Reference Link • Military
Mama, Don't Let Your Boys Grow Up To Be Veterans
www.thecommonsenseshow.com
I deeply respect the bravery of our troops as they are carrying out the mandates of their mission in which our troops had no say. It is a shame that the Obama administration does not respect these men and women. Instead, his minions labels them, igno
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News Link • Syria
NATO chief says alliance will defend Turkey over Syria
11-12-2012
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Reuters
NATO will defend alliance member Turkey, which struck back after mortar rounds fired from Syria landed inside its border, the alliance's Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said at a meeting in Prague on Monday.
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
The Ron Paul factor in the GOP’s defeat
11-12-2012
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by DeMolay
A full three days after the GOP took a shellacking in the general election, as many as 19 reasons have been put for the by both parties, pundits and the corporate media as they grope for explanations.
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News Link • NeoCons
Neocon Bill Kristol Admits Ron Paul Supporters Are the Future of The Republican Party
11-12-2012
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by DeejayG
Neocon Bill Kristol Admits Ron Paul Supporters Are the Future of The Republican Party
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Ron Paul's Texas Straight Talk 11/12/12: Abolish All Price Controls: Let the Free Market Functio
11-12-2012
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by legalizeliberty
Ron Paul's Texas Straight Talk 11/12/12: Abolish All Price Controls: Let the Free Market Function!
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News Link • Gun Rights
Some Observations on Privately Owned Firearms
11-12-2012
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http://www.survivalblog.com, J.W.R.
Washington D.C. is presently all abuzz with talk of the BHO Administration looking for an opportunity to enact the UN's stalled Small Arms and Light Weapons Treaty.
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News Link • Internet
Kim Dotcom's Sequel To MegaUpload Is Finally Online
11-12-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Megan Rose Dickey
Kim Dotcom's MegaUpload replacement has finally found a new home.
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
What Marijuana Does To Your Body And Mind
11-12-2012
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Jennifer Welsh and Dina Spector
With the recreational use of marijuana about to be legal in two states, Colorado and Washington, we thought now would be an important time to refresh ourselves about the effects that the drug has on our bodies and minds.
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News Link • Economy - International
Hong Kong Will Overtake London As International Financial Capital
11-12-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Joshua Berlinger
Hong Kong will overtake London as the world's international financial capital by 2015, according to a new study by the Center for Economic and Business Research (CEBR).
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News Link • Surveillance
How A Simple Gmail Search Could Lead To An Invasion Of Your Privacy
11-12-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Connie Ogle
How many times did you go online today? Did you update your Facebook status? Do a web search? Order a new pair of shoes?
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News Link • Israel
Israel Continues Shelling Of Syrian Targets For Second Consecutive Day
11-12-2012
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
ISRAELI MILITARY REPORTS `DIRECT HITS' ON SYRIA TARGETS
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News Link • Future Predictions
U.S. to overtake Saudi as top oil producer: IEA
11-12-2012
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http://www.reuters.com, By Peg Mackey
The United States will overtake Saudi Arabia and Russia as the world's top oil producer by 2017, the West's energy agency said on Monday, predicting Washington will come very close to achieving a previously unthinkable energy self-sufficiency.
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News Link • Economy - International
You know the economy's bad when banksters start seizing Navy ships
11-12-2012
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www.businessinsider.com
Last Wednesday, sailors aboard the Argentine naval ship held in Ghana by hedge fund manager Paul Singer drew their guns.
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Reference Link • F.E.M.A.
CBS News Admits FEMA Camps Are Real
www.thecommonsenseshow.com
There has been a stunning development with regard to the corporate controlled media reporting on FEMA camps. CBS News reported on November 10, 2012, that FEMA camps are in place and being used.
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