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Date Sent: 2013-02-02
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Saturday, February 2, 2013 |
Meet the Contractors Turning America's Police Into a Paramilitary Force
LA Archbishop releases abuse records, strips Cardinal Mahony of all duties -- ATF's Milwaukee sting operation marred by mistakes, failures -- A Salute & Support to 2 Tennessee Sheriffs Standing Up for the US Constitution -- Homeland Security has advice for confronting mass murders: scissors -- Suicide bomber kills guard at US Embassy in Turkey -- Postal Service says it’s immune from local traffic laws -- To Be Governed -- 2014: TOO LATE TO LEAVE THE U.S.? -- Blimps to bolster Washington's air shield in test -- Homeland Security Tip: Fend Off Shooter With Scissors -- SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News, February 3, 2013 Edition -- Federal Reserve Board Abolition Act Hits Congress -- Resistance to Tyrants is Obedience to God -- Man With Concealed Carry Permit Arrested for Exposure of Gun. Video Goes Viral, Officer on Leave -- Senators Demand that Banks Be Punished – but Not the Fed -- In Amerika Law No Longer Exists: The Extermination of Truth -- A Misesian Century -- Department of Homeland Security Targets Gun Collector -- Private Space Plane Poised for Big Test Flight -- Candidates for
2013 Gold Stock of the Year -- The “Long War” Rhetoric is Back -- Guantanamo
9/11 trial judge orders hidden censors unplugged -- Top US General in Afghanistan Sees ‘Uncertain Future’ -- MSNBC Airs Sandy Hook Father's Unedited
Testimony After Critics Complain (Video) -- How Homing Pigeons Find
Their Way Home -- Tough questions follow Al Gore book tour -- 'Gay'
dog gets euthanasia reprieve -- Roam The Grand Canyon Virtually With
Google Maps -- 3-D Printed Buildings Coming Soon to a Moon Near You
-- Washington Post Co. explores the sale of its downtown
headquarters -- How a Boat-Plane Hybrid Shattered the Sound Barrier
of Sailing -- Kite Powers EV Across Australia for $15 of Electricity
-- IRS: Cheapest Obamacare Plan Will Be $20,000 Per Family -- The
End of the Web, Computers, and Search as We Know It -- World’s First
Electric Car Ferry Recharges in 10 Minutes -- Edward Koch, Former
Mayor of New York, Dies at 88 -- The Greatest Hacker T-Shirts This
Planet Has Ever Seen -- Expulsion Reversed for Girl Who Brought
Plastic Gun to School -- Geraldo Rivera 'truly contemplating' run
for Senate. Could he win? -- Armed guard disarmed teen in Atlanta
school shooting, says police chief -- The Gun Control Debate
Freedom's Phoenix Digital Magazine February 1st, 2013 Edition
AVAILABLE NOW!
AZ: Arizona Breakfast Club TODAY, February 2nd, 2013 with Alan Korwin
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News Link • Religion: Believers
LA Archbishop releases abuse records, strips Cardinal Mahony of all duties
02-01-2013
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AFP
The archbishop of Los Angeles stripped his predecessor of all church duties as he released files on more than 100 clerics, as required under a 2007 lawsuit deal over alleged sex abuse. Archbishop Jose Gomez said retired Cardinal Mahony
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News Link • Gun Rights
ATF's Milwaukee sting operation marred by mistakes, failures
02-01-2013
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A store calling itself Fearless Distributing opened early last year on an out-of-the-way street in Milwaukee's Riverwest neighborhood, offering designer clothes, athletic shoes, jewelry and drug paraphernalia.
Those working behind the counter, how
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News Link • Gun Rights
A Salute & Support to 2 Tennessee Sheriffs Standing Up for the US Constitution
02-01-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
I am very happy to see and report that 2 Tennessee Sheriffs are standing up for our US Constitution and for the citizens of their respective counties. In the latest updated list from CSPOA.org that is growing daily, now up to 242 supporting Sheriffs
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Homeland Security
Homeland Security has advice for confronting mass murders: scissors
02-01-2013
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New York Post
Is your workplace getting shot up by a crazed gunman?
No problem " just grab a pair of scissors and fight back!
That’s some of the helpful advice in a new instructional video from the Department of Homeland Security
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News Link • World News
Suicide bomber kills guard at US Embassy in Turkey
02-01-2013
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AP
In the second deadly assault on a U.S. diplomatic post in five months, a suicide bomber struck the American Embassy in Ankara on Friday, killing a Turkish security guard in what the White House described as a terrorist attack.
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News Link • Surveillance
Postal Service says it’s immune from local traffic laws
02-01-2013
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The Lookout
“However, as you are probably aware, the Postal Service enjoys federal immunity from state and local regulation,” she continued. That last bit did not go over well with Goldman Sach's American Traffic Solutions that enforces camera citations.
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News Link • Government
To Be Governed
02-01-2013
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Lew Rockwell blog
To be governed is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, regulated, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, checked, estimated, valued, censured, commanded, by creatures who have neither the right nor the wisd
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News Link • Day of Reckoning
2014: TOO LATE TO LEAVE THE U.S.?
02-01-2013
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Wendy McElroy
It is time for people who can to get out of the States. I know there are deep roots that prevent many people from seriously considering that option -- family is a big one -- but I hope they take prudent steps to protect themselves and loved ones whil
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News Link • Surveillance
Blimps to bolster Washington's air shield in test
02-01-2013
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Reuters
A pair of big, blimp-like craft, moored to the ground and flying as high as 10,000 feet (3,000 metres), are to be added to a high-tech shield designed to protect the Washington D.C. area from air attack, at least for a while.
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News Link • Entertainment: Music
Re: The Robot Factory
02-01-2013
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Lew Rockwell blog
In response to my recent article, "Schools as Black-Holes," Michael Belkin sent me the lyrics to a song performed by his Seattle-based band The Refusers (reportedly the number 2 ranked band in thet city) titled "Robot Factory."
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News Link • Homeland Security
Homeland Security Tip: Fend Off Shooter With Scissors
02-01-2013
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Daily Paul.com
The Department of Homeland Security has released a video advising Americans on how to deal with a mass shooting"and some of its tips have the New York Post scratching its head.
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News Link • Future Predictions
I wasn't born until 26 years later...
02-01-2013
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Daily Paul.com
But had I been around in '42, I - a citizen of the United States of America - would have been the victim of indefinite detention on American soil simply because of my Japanese ancestry.
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Opinion • Humor
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News, February 3, 2013 Edition
02-01-2013
John Semmens
Democrats Debate Nuances of Gun Control
Vice-President Joe Biden, the man tapped by President Obama to lead his Administration's efforts to push gun control legislation, acknowledged that “Nothing we are going to do is fundamentally going to alter
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Federal Reserve Board Abolition Act Hits Congress
02-01-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
On January 3, 2013 Congressman Paul Broun, Jr. (R-GA) introduced HR 73, The Federal Reserve Board Abolition Act. The thrust of the legislation is to “abolish the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and the Federal reserve banks, to repea
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Activism
Resistance to Tyrants is Obedience to God
01/31/2013
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Bradlee Dean, of You Can Run International
America, we must protest the unjust laws of our government. We need to fight for our rights. The government should fear the people, not people fear the government.
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News Link • Activism
Film Contest: Next Paul Revere to Win $100,000
02-01-2013
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Daily Paul.com
The DP has always been a wealth of talent and intellect. It would be great to see one of our own win this contest. Here are the details.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Man With Concealed Carry Permit Arrested for Exposure of Gun. Video Goes Viral, Officer on Leave
02-01-2013
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Daily Paul.com
17 seconds after getting out of the car, he is asked for his registration and insurance.
As he turns, something is slightly visible in his back pocket.
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News Link • How To
The Rain Tower - Vertical Hydroponic System
02-01-2013
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youtube
I had this idea for a vertical hydroponic system to take up less space and made it come to life.
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Senators Demand that Banks Be Punished " but Not the Fed
02-01-2013
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The Daily Bell
Senators Call Out Attorney General For Treating Banks Like They Are "Too Big To Jail" Like many Americans, Senators Charles Grassley (Iowa) and Sherrod Brown (Ohio) think federal investigators have given banks a mere slap on the wrists.
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News Link • Justice and Judges
In Amerika Law No Longer Exists: The Extermination of Truth
02-01-2013
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The Daily Bell
In the 21st century Americans have experienced an extraordinary collapse in the rule of law and in their constitutional protections.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Department of Homeland Security Targets Gun Collector
02-01-2013
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Prison Planet
KRQE in Albuquerque, New Mexico, reports that the Department of Homeland Security " the federal agency initially established to protect the United States from terrorists and respond to natural disasters " has used its ICE division to bust a gun colle
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Private Space Plane Poised for Big Test Flight
02-01-2013
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space.com
A private space plane is slated to fly on its own for the first time in the next six to eight weeks, a key drop-test milestone in the vehicle's quest to fly astronauts on roundtrip space missions.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
The “Long War” Rhetoric is Back
02-01-2013
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counterpunch.org
The bloodshed at the In Amenas gas facility in Algeria has brought into focus the deteriorating situation in north and west Africa and the role of France in the region.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Military
Guantanamo 9/11 trial judge orders hidden censors unplugged
02-01-2013
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http://www.mcclatchydc.com, Carol Rosenberg
The military judge presiding at the Sept. 11 trial Thursday ordered the government to unplug any outside censors who can reach into his courtroom and silence the war crimes tribunal.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Afghanistan
Top US General in Afghanistan Sees ‘Uncertain Future’
02-01-2013
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http://news.antiwar.com, by John Glaser
General Allen acknowledges what has become a virtual consensus, that the war in Afghanistan has failed
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Are We Running Out Of Scientific Geniuses?
02-01-2013
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popsci.com
In the latest issue of Nature, Dean Keith Simonton argues that modern science is just building on what's already known, rather than upending what we think we know.
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
MSNBC Airs Sandy Hook Father's Unedited Testimony After Critics Complain (Video)
02-01-2013
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http://www.hollywoodreporter.com, by Paul Bond
Conservatives said the edited footage made it appear as though Neil Heslin was shouted down by Second Amendment advocates at a hearing in Connecticut, and rival network anchor Anderson Cooper agreed.
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News Link • Geology
How Homing Pigeons Find Their Way Home
02-01-2013
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popsci.com
A new theory explains why homing pigeons are so good at navigating back to their nests--and why sometimes they are not.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Books
Tough questions follow Al Gore book tour
02-01-2013
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http://www.politico.com, By PATRICK GAVIN
If you thought Al Gore was a media darling, you haven’t seen his latest book tour.
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News Link • Animals and Pets
'Gay' dog gets euthanasia reprieve
02-01-2013
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http://news.blogs.cnn.com,
A dog whose rejection by his owner caused an Internet uproar has been adopted into a new, and presumably more tolerant, home.
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News Link • Internet
Roam The Grand Canyon Virtually With Google Maps
02-01-2013
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popsci.com
Skip the family vacation -- you can see more of the national park from your laptop.
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News Link • Media: Print
Washington Post Co. explores the sale of its downtown headquarters
02-01-2013
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washingtonpost.com,By Jonathan O'Connell
The Washington Post Co. executives are considering relocating the company from its 63-year-old headquarters in downtown Washington, exploring the sale of the building that saw the Post evolve into one of the country’s top newspapers.
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News Link • Transportation
How a Boat-Plane Hybrid Shattered the Sound Barrier of Sailing
02-01-2013
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Wired.com
Seen from across Walvis Bay, the windswept patch of Atlantic Ocean known as Speed Spot is barely more than a sparkle of whitecaps against a long, low sandbar.
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News Link • Transportation
Kite Powers EV Across Australia for $15 of Electricity
02-01-2013
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Wired.com
Leave it to New Jersey to build a record-breaking electric vehicle powered by a giant kite.
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News Link • Obama Administration
IRS: Cheapest Obamacare Plan Will Be $20,000 Per Family
02-01-2013
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http://cnsnews.com, By Matt Cover
In a final regulation issued Wednesday, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) assumed that under Obamacare the cheapest health insurance plan available in 2016 for a family will cost $20,000 for the year.
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News Link • Internet
The End of the Web, Computers, and Search as We Know It
02-01-2013
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Wired.com
People ask what the next web will be like, but there won’t be a next web.
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News Link • Transportation
World’s First Electric Car Ferry Recharges in 10 Minutes
02-01-2013
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Wired.com
The world’s first battery electric car ferry is under development in Norway. It’s capable of carrying 120 cars and 360 passengers, and it can fully recharge in just 10 minutes.
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News Link • Death
Edward Koch, Former Mayor of New York, Dies at 88
02-01-2013
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http://www.nytimes.com, By ROBERT D. McFADDEN
Edward I. Koch, the master showman of City Hall, who parlayed shrewd political instincts and plenty of chutzpah into three tumultuous terms as mayor of New York with all the tenacity, zest and combativeness that personified his city of golden dreams,
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News Link • Just For Fun!
The Greatest Hacker T-Shirts This Planet Has Ever Seen
02-01-2013
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Wired.com
It was a hacker conference, so just about everyone was wearing a T-shirt. And most of the T-shirts had something to say.
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Expulsion Reversed for Girl Who Brought Plastic Gun to School
02-01-2013
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http://www.wltx.com
A six-year-old girl expelled for bringing a clear plastic gun to class will be allowed to return to school.
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Geraldo Rivera 'truly contemplating' run for Senate. Could he win?
02-01-2013
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http://www.csmonitor.com, By Peter Grier
Broadcast journalist Geraldo Rivera said on his radio program Thursday that he's been in touch 'with some people in the Republican Party in New Jersey' about a run in 2014. But it won't be easy.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Armed guard disarmed teen in Atlanta school shooting, says police chief
02-01-2013
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http://www.sltrib.com, By KATE BRUMBACK
A student opened fire at his middle school Thursday afternoon, wounding a 14-year-old in the neck before an armed officer working at the school was able to get the gun away, police said.
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News Link • Gun Rights
The Gun Control Debate
02-01-2013
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http://jpfo.org, By Charles Heller
Today there is a raging debate in our republic about so-called "gun control," which is really just a euphemism for theft of rights.
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Opinion • Gun Rights
Pastor, Please Help Us!
01-31-2013
Chuck Baldwin
All over America, county sheriffs are standing up and promising to protect their citizens’ right to keep and bear arms. They are pledging that, not only will they not participate in any federal gun ban, but that they will aggressively oppose any fede
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News Link • Gun Rights
Why They Will Lose This Time
01-31-2013
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Lewrockwell.com
Americans either don’t see it or don’t care. One reader put it as follows:
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News Link • Gun Rights
The Civilian Disarmament Dialectic
01-31-2013
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Lewrockwell.com
The Opinion page in today's Idaho Press-Tribune published side-by-side op-ed columns by Canyon County Sheriff Kieran Donahue and Ada County Sheriff Gary Raney on the subject of proposed civilian disarmament measures.
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News Link • Activism
Vowing to 'Shut It Down,' Vermont Yankee Protesters Put Their Bodies on the Line
01-31-2013
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Common Dreams
'The legislature hasn’t done it. Bernie Sanders hasn’t done it. We have to do it. We have to keep going there with our locks and chains until they shut Vermont Yankee down for good.'
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News Link • Police State
NYPD Gets Their Man - Errr, Seven-Year-Old - After Ten Hours of Questioning
01-31-2013
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Common Dreams
The family of Bronx third-grader Wilson Reyes is suing the NYPD for $250 million
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News Link • Israel
Israel Attacks Syria, Adding Complexity to Syrian Civil War
01-31-2013
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Antiwar.com
Israeli Officials Refuse Comment Amid Conflicting Stories of What Was Attacked
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News Link • United Nations
UN Report: Israel Must Withdraw All Settlers or Face ICC
01-31-2013
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Antiwar.com
The motivation behind Israel's policies 'is to drive the local populations away from their lands,' said one UN judge.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
North Korea Under Martial Law; “Troops Be Ready For A War”
01-31-2013
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govtslaves.info
North Korea has been placed under martial law and Kim Jong-un has told his front-line troops to “be ready for a war,” according to South Korean media reports.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Americans Withdrawal 114 Billion In One Week From US Banks , Most Since 9/11
01-31-2013
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govtslaves.info
You probably haven’t heard much about it from the mainstream media, but the latest figures released by the privately-owned Federal Reserve (FED) indicate that America’s largest banks saw record cash withdrawals during the first full week of January 2
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Record withdrawals at U.S. banks as Americans lose trust in financial system
01-31-2013
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naturalnews.com
You probably haven't heard much about it from the mainstream media, but the latest figures released by the privately-owned Federal Reserve (FED) indicate that America's largest banks saw record cash withdrawals during the first full week of January .
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News Link • Constitution
Are We As Asleep As the Germans of the 1930s?
01/25/2013
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Bradlee Dean
Over the last four administrations, America’s government is emulating many similarities to what happened in Germany in the 1930s, with the Nazi's rise to power. We are likewise setting ourselves at war with God, abusing power and trampling on our Co
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