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Date Sent: 2013-01-06
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Sunday, January 6, 2013 |
Assad outlines Syria peace plan -- White House weighs broad gun-control agenda in wake of shootings
Ex-Officer Is First From C.I.A. to Face Prison for a Leak -- As
Biofuel Demand Grows, So Do Guatemala’s Hunger Pangs -- Health Insurers
Raise Some Rates by Double Digits -- 4409: Man uses HOV lane with Corporation Papers! -- Bolivarianism in Venezuela -- PA Recognizes Palestinian Statehood -- So who wants a Dictator? H.J.Res. 15 -- Some gun shows canceling after Conn. mass shooting -- The Launch Of
Russia's New 'Silent' Sub Is Just One Step In Rebuilding Its Mighty
Military -- 15 Ways To Cope With Higher Taxes After The Fiscal Cliff
Deal -- Trial set for Christmas tree-lighting bomb plot -- Strong
earthquake shakes parts of Alaska, Canada -- US irked by Google
chief's NKorea plans -- Man to be sentenced for Obama threat
-- Israeli Arab says he can't leave Syria -- Seven charged in
Indian organ trafficking -- Trial set for Gadhafi son,
brother-in-law -- Florida 'artist' held in traffic fracas -- N.Y.
Newspaper Gun owner Map, Inmates intimidating Guards (know where
they live now) -- Syrian president to give speech Sunday -- McChrystal
takes blame for Rolling Stone article -- Child benefit reforms
under fire as parents fail to opt out -- Childhood obesity:
Jeremy Hunt threatens food industry with legislation -- New
Evil Dead Trailer Features Most Disgusting Make-Out Ever -- Here's
What Subway Push Barriers Would Look Like In Grand Central -- Investors Who Think Venezuela's Economy Will Open Up After Chavez
Have Another Thing Coming -- Japan Sends Fighter Jets After A
Second Ever Chinese Invasion Of Its Airspace
Freedom's Phoenix Digital Magazine January 4th, 2013 Edition NOW
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News Link • Syria
Assad outlines new Syria peace plan
01-06-2013
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AP
"We never rejected a political solution ... but with whom should we talk? With those who have extremist ideology who only understand the language of terrorism? Or should we with negotiate puppets whom the West brought? ... We negotiate with the maste
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News Link • Gun Rights
White House weighs broad gun-control agenda in wake of Newtown shootings
01-06-2013
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Washington Post
The White House is weighing a far broader and more comprehensive approach to curbing the nation’s gun violence than simply reinstating an expired ban on assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition, according to multiple people involved
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Ex-Officer Is First From C.I.A. to Face Prison for a Leak
01-06-2013
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New York Times
Mr. Kiriakou first stumbled into the public limelight by speaking out about waterboarding on television in 2007, quickly becoming a source for national security journalists, including this reporter, who turned up in Mr. Kiriakou’s indictment last yea
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News Link • Food
As Biofuel Demand Grows, So Do Guatemala’s Hunger Pangs
01-06-2013
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New York Times
Recent laws in the United States and Europe that mandate use of biofuel in cars have had far-flung ripple effects, as land once devoted to growing food for humans is now sometimes more profitably used for churning out vehicle fuel.
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News Link • Healthcare Industry
Health Insurers Raise Some Rates by Double Digits
01-06-2013
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New York Times
Health insurance companies are seeking and winning double-digit increases in premiums for some customers, even though one of the objectives of the Obama administration’s health care law was to stem the rise in insurance costs for consumers.
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Opinion • Gun Rights
My Line In The Sand Is Drawn Here!
01-06-2013
Chuck Baldwin
If Barack Obama and his gaggle of gun grabbers have their way, the American citizenry will have all of their firearms taken away. If their current attempt to outlaw semi-automatic rifles is successful, does anyone think it will stop there? Don’t be n
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News Link • Politics
So who wants a Dictator? H.J.Res. 15
01-06-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
I would be fairly confident that if asking any American walking down the street this question the reply would be a resounding “Hell no!”. My thinking would be even those people that support endless wars, fiat currency, big government, unlimited spen
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News Link • Gun Rights
Some gun shows canceling after Conn. mass shooting
01-05-2013
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Associated Press
Several gun shows, all about an hour's drive from Newtown, Conn., have been canceled.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Animals and Pets
Brazilian cat caught in prison break plot doesn’t rat on accomplices
01-05-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
A cat, busted in a Brazilian prison with saws and drills strapped to his body, has used right to remain silent on the details of the prison break.
A cat has been caught in a Brazilian prison for delivering materials that would help the inmates es
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Gadget Lab Show: Pre-CES Madness
01-05-2013
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Wired.com
On this week’s Gadget Lab show, the gang prepares for the madness of CES and runs down what to expect from the show and how we’ll cover it all.
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News Link • Military
The Launch Of Russia's New 'Silent' Sub Is Just One Step In Rebuilding Its Mighty Milita
01-05-2013
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Business Insider
Russia recently launched its near silent nuclear submarine following several years of development.
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News Link • Economy - International
Spain Plunders 90% Of Social Security Fund To Buy Its Own Debt
01-04-2013
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Zero Hedge
Spain has been quietly tapping the country's richest piggy bank, the Social Security Reserve Fund, as a buyer of last resort for Spanish government bonds - with at least 90% of the $85.7 billion fund invested in increasingly risky Spanish debt.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Currencies
The Only Idea That's Sillier Than The Trillion Dollar Platinum Coin...
01-05-2013
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Business Insider
The last couple of days we've been talking about the Platinum Solution to the Debt Ceiling crisis, namely that the Treasury could mint a trillion dollar platinum coin and deposit it at the Fed,
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News Link • TERRORISM
Trial set for Christmas tree-lighting bomb plot
01-05-2013
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Associated Press
For more than two years, the only image the public has had of the man accused of plotting to detonate an 1,800-pound bomb at a Portland Christmas tree-lighting ceremony is this: A sullen-faced, sunken-eyed terrorism suspect in a mug shot.
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News Link • Food
FDA: New rules will make food safer
01-05-2013
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Associated Press
The Food and Drug Administration says its new guidelines would make the food Americans eat safer and help prevent the kinds of foodborne disease outbreaks that sicken or kill thousands of consumers each year.
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News Link • Natural Disasters
Strong earthquake shakes parts of Alaska, Canada
01-05-2013
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Associated Press
A powerful earthquake sparked a tsunami warning for hundreds of miles of Alaskan and Canadian coastline, but the alert was canceled when no damaging waves were generated.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Internet
US irked by Google chief's NKorea plans
01-05-2013
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Associated Press
Google chief Eric Schmidt's plan to visit North Korea has put the Obama administration in the awkward position of opposing a champion of Internet freedom who's decided to engage with one of the most intensely censored countries.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Man to be sentenced for Obama threat
01-05-2013
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upi.com
A Florida man who has served a prison sentence for threatening to kill President George W. Bush is awaiting sentencing for threats against President Obama.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Syria
Israeli Arab says he can't leave Syria
01-05-2013
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upi.com
An Israeli Arab who joined rebel fighters in Syria has told his family he and a friend are being held captive, their passports destroyed.
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News Link • World News
Seven charged in Indian organ trafficking
01-05-2013
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upi.com
Seven people, including government workers, were arrested Saturday in Bangalore, India, on suspicion of being involved in human organ trafficking, police said.
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News Link • Libya
Trial set for Gadhafi son, brother-in-law
01-05-2013
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upi.com
The war crimes trial of the late Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's son and brother-in-law will take place within a month, officials said Saturday.
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News Link • Weird/Offbeat News
Florida 'artist' held in traffic fracas
01-05-2013
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upi.com
A Florida judge told a defendant this week she should keep what she calls performance art away from busy streets "and everything will start looking up for you."
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News Link • Gun Rights
N.Y. Newspaper Gun owner Map, Inmates intimidating Guards (know where they live now)
01-05-2013
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The Journal News in N.Y. put an interactive map online of gun owners in various counties. Since then one county (Putnam) has refused to give them the gun owners information and the newspaper has hired armed guards due to the backlash they have recei
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News Link • Syria
Syrian president to give speech Sunday
01-05-2013
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The Guardian
Syria's state run news agency says President Bashar Assad will deliver a speech on Sunday in a rare address to the nation.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Tobacco Can be Cancer Free?
01-05-2013
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arclein
And when I read the FDA list of hazardous compounds in cigarette smoke and found not only polonium-210 (the radioactive element suspected in Arafat’s death) but two well-known isotopes of uranium best associated with nuclear reactors (uranium-235 an
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Ten Point Model for a Mental Health System
01-05-2013
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arclein
People - real, caring people - need to regulate mental health in America; people who want to make a career out of helping others and can use their resources and connections to find a way to do so. This would most likely take place on a small scale, t
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News Link • Books
McChrystal takes blame for Rolling Stone article
01-05-2013
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The Guardian
Speaking out for the first time since he resigned, retired Gen. Stanley McChrystal takes the blame for a Rolling Stone article, and the unflattering comments attributed to his staff about the Obama administration, that ended his Afghan command.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Molecular Levers
01-05-2013
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arclein
In recent experiments, Craig and his team found that a molecule made with a polynorbornene backbone can act as a lever to open a ring embedded within the molecule 1000 times faster than a similar ring being tugged at on a polybutadiene scaffold. The
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News Link • Iran
Something Awful at Isfahan?
01-05-2013
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arclein
According to the report, the edict calls on Isfahan's one-and-a-half million people to leave the city “because pollution has now reached emergency levels.”
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News Link • Economy - International
Child benefit reforms under fire as parents fail to opt out
01-05-2013
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The Guardian
Most families who will lose all of their benefit under changes coming in on Monday have not taken step to stop payments.
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News Link • Food
Childhood obesity: Jeremy Hunt threatens food industry with legislation
01-05-2013
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The Guardian
Supermarkets and manufacturers told to get 'their house in order' or face laws to curb high levels of sugar and fat in food
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News Link • Weird/Offbeat News
Cat Gets Busted For Smuggling Contraband Into Brazilian Prison
01-05-2013
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Business Insider
Prison guards caught a cat carrying a mobile phone and a saw trying to walk through prison gates in north-east Brazil, it has emerged.
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
Promised Land Brings Fracking to the Big Screen, but Offers Little Insight
01-05-2013
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Technologyreview.com
The new movie is short on details. Here are the key environmental issues with fracking, and how to deal with them
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
New Evil Dead Trailer Features Most Disgusting Make-Out Ever
01-05-2013
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Wired.com
Usually the comments on YouTube videos don’t really offer much in the way of enlightenment. But after the new red-band trailer for Evil Dead " it’s above and very gruesome; you’ve been warned "
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News Link • Future Predictions
Here's What Subway Push Barriers Would Look Like In Grand Central
01-05-2013
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Business Insider
There has been a lot of talk lately about adding push barriers to the subway system in New York City after multiple incidents that got a lot of media attention.
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News Link • World News
A Plane Carrying Top Italian Fashion Boss Vittorio Missoni Has Gone Missing
01-05-2013
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Business Insider
The plane carrying fashion executive Vittorio Missoni, along with his wife and several other people, is missing in Venezuela.
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News Link • Books
How The Most Successful People Use Their Weekends Better
01-05-2013
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Business Insider
As work weeks get longer each year and free time seems to slip away quicker than ever, it's essential to make the most of time we actually have at least some control over: the weekend.
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
The Most Important Gadgets That You'll See At CES This Year
01-05-2013
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Business Insider
The Consumer Electronics Show, the biggest event in tech of the year, starts next week in Las Vegas.
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News Link • World News
If Lance Armstrong Wants To Redeem Himself, This Is A Strange Way To Begin
01-05-2013
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Business Insider
Lance Armstrong is considering finally admitting that he doped, Juliet Macur of the New York Times reports.
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News Link • China
Japan Sends Fighter Jets After A Second Ever Chinese Invasion Of Its Airspace
01-05-2013
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Business Insider
China's first ever invasion of Japan's airspace happened just weeks ago, but the move appears to becoming a routine addition to the burgeoning standoff.
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News Link • Food
Is There a Place For Genetically Modified Animals In Your Future?
01-05-2013
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Recently scientists in China developed a GM (Genetically Modified) cow that yields human breast milk. This has put the spotlight an ongoing debate over the appropriate place of GM organisms in society. Several animal species have already been genetic
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
2012: The Year of Banker Infestation . . . 2013: The Year They Become Obsolete?
01-05-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
In this episode, Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert argue over whether things are looking better or worse for the American worker. While Stacy argues that the return of some manufacturing is a sign that wealth creating jobs may return to the US, Max counte
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News Link • Gold and Silver
$10 Million Of Silver Bars Lying In The Street, Literally Littering The Road
01-05-2013
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Once in a blue moon, you may find a random $20 bill lying around and feel lucky. Imagine how you’d feel if you came across $10 million in silver.
That is exactly what motorists in upstate New York encountered. An armored truck was heading from Roc
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News Link • Healthcare Industry
Federal Court OKs Big Pharma’s Reps to Push Unapproved Drugs
01-05-2013
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It’s no secret that millions of Americans are prescribed an array of pharmaceutical drugs to “treat” a variety of conditions. It’s also been brought to surface in recent years just how corrupt the industry really is, and how medical professionals and
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News Link • Property Rights
Heritage Pig Farm Embargoed, USDA and DNR Close In
01-05-2013
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“Our farm is basically embargoed. We can raise all the pigs we want, but can not move them out to our market. That cuts off cash flow, effectively starving the farm financially and the pigs practically.”
Bakers Green Acres made the news last sprin
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News Link • Gun Rights
Australian Gun Law Update
01-05-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
It has now been 12 months since gun owners in Australia were forced by a new law to surrender 640,381 personal firearms to be destroyed by our own government, a program costing Australia taxpayers more than $500 million dollars.
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News Link • Healthcare
Loophole in Obamacare can leave you without insurance
01-05-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
The Obama administration issued long expected guidelines about the implementation of the health care law on Monday containing a huge loophole that could leave millions of Americans still uninsured.
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Opinion • Humor
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News, January 6, 2013 Edition
01-04-2013
John Semmens
Pelosi Defends Doctored Photo
A photo of the 61 female members of Congress including the photo-shopped images of four absentees was defended by House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif) who says that the altered image “more accurately portrayed
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Feature Article • Books
The PeaceMonger - by Barry Hess (a novel)
Ernest Hancock
A ride through the thoughts of the president as he winds his way through one of the most momentous days ever recorded. The PeaceMonger will keep the reader guessing, as it exposes what really goes on behind the closed doors of power.
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