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Date Sent: 2013-03-22
Freedom's Phoenix PM Edition for Thursday, March 21, 2013 |
Out of Control Derivative Trade Threatens US Economy -- North Korea Threatens Nearby US Bases
03-21-13 -- Larken Rose - Freedom's Phoenix Headline News - (Video & MP3 LOADED) -- Border Patrol Seeks Hazmat Teams for Drugs Smuggled in Toxic Waste -- China’s Testing Woes Remind That Developing Carrier Planes Is Hard -- Attorney For Freedom Show #3 -- Enough Money to Not Worry -- Cop Repellant -- PANIC AND ANGER: Here's What I Saw At Cyprus ATMs This Morning --
Existing Home Sales Rise t0.8%, Prices Rise For 12th Straight Month -- MORE IRON BROTHERHOOD FALLOUT: Prescott Valley police chief retires, citing 'controversy' --
Markets Turn South As Euro Train Wreck Continues At Full Speed -- Photo
Radar Prescott Valley, AZ -- Feinstein worried armed drones coming to
US, legal or not -- James Holmes, and how the CIA hid the MKULTRA mind-control program -- Gruesome Video Shows Syrian Rebel Beheading Civilian -- James Bovard: Rotten Tomatoes for a Billion-Dollar Farm Payout -- U.S. Secret Service almost accidentally shot Iran's president -- ECB to Cyprus: Decide whom to loot or else -- Welfare’s War on Drugs -- Europe in Crisis as Cyprus Faces National Bankruptcy
-- 'Monsanto
Protection Act' to be voted on by Congress -- GM salmon rejected by
Whole Foods, Trader Joe's, Aldi and other food retailers -- New York
Times Hypocrisy -- Obama in Israel
AZ: Silver Circle at Pollack Tempe Cinemas TICKETS NOW ON SALE -
April 11th, 2013 - Tempe, AZ -- Lincoln Day Dinner and Auction
with Keynote Speaker, Sheriff Richard Mack, Apr. 13
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Out of Control Derivative Trade Threatens the U.S. Economy
03-21-2013
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http://www.globalresearch.ca, Washington's Blo
Congress Never Fixed the Financial System … And Is About to Make It Even Worse
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Military
North Korea Threatens To Strike US Bases In Japan
03-21-2013
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Business Insider
The North Korean army on Thursday threatened a possible strike against US military bases in Japan, in response to the use of nuclear-armed US B-52 bombers in joint military drills with South Korea.
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News Link • Events: Arizona
Silver Circle Movie Tickets available now for the April 11th, 2013 showing at Pollack Tempe Cinemas
03-21-2013
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Silver Circle Movie
Why are gas prices are so high? Why is it getting harder to put food on the table? Some seek answers from government, but those who control the money control everything. Silver Circle is the story of our world after the worst economic collapse in US
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Military
Pentagon Swears It Isn’t Abandoning BlackBerries for iOS Devices
03-21-2013
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Wired.com
Calm yourselves, defense bureaucrats. The Pentagon isn’t about to swap out your BlackBerries for the latest iPhones and iPads.
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News Link • China
China’s Testing Woes Remind That Developing Carrier Planes Is Hard
03-21-2013
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Wired.com
The ongoing trials of China’s first aircraft carrier and her ship-based jet fighters represent a major leap ahead in capability for the People’s Liberation Army Navy
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News Link • Animals and Pets
When Animals Learn to Control Robots, You Know We’re in Trouble
03-21-2013
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Wired.com
Unless an asteroid or deadly pandemic wipes us out first, the force we are most afraid will rob us of our place as rulers of Earth is robots.
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
New Map Made of First Trillionth of a Trillionth of a Second After Big Bang
03-21-2013
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Wired.com
The European Space Agency’s Planck satellite has released the most detailed map of the universe ever created, refining estimates of the age of the universe and its composition, as well as showing some interesting anomalies that scientists can’t.....
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News Link • Internet
Facebook and Google Create Walled Gardens for Web Newcomers Overseas
03-21-2013
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Technologyreview.com
In some countries, “the Internet” is confined to certain sites as part of a strategy to help wireless carriers offer starter packages.
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News Link • Energy
BrightSource Pushes Ahead on Another Massive Solar Thermal Plant
03-21-2013
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Technologyreview.com
With BrightSource’s Ivanpah solar plant about to come online, the company looks to its next projects for the economics to improve
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News Link • Marc Victor
Attorney For Freedom Show #3
03-21-2013
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Attorney For Freedom
Attorney Marc J. Victor discusses the legal system, Jodi Arias, Elizabeth Johnson and Libertarian philosophy with Judge John Buttrick.
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Feature Article • Casey Research Articles
Enough Money to Not Worry
Dennis Miller
When the way in which we produce income during retirement changes from what we’d envisioned it’s time to step back and truthfully consider three things: how to take on greater management of our retirement investments, what changes we should make in t
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News Link • Climate Change
Atmospheric CO2 Jumps
03-21-2013
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arclein
Tans told the Associated Press the major factor was an increase in fossil-fuel use. "It's just a testament to human influence being dominant", he said. "The prospects of keeping climate change below that [two-degree goal] are fading away."
Pr
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News Link • Police State
Cop Repellant
03-21-2013
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arclein
ever forget: Cops are not your friend; they are not there to “help” you. They are there to bust you. Don’t make it easier for them. Make it harder for them.
* Never forget that cops are legally permitted to lie to you. Take nothing they tell you a
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robert klein
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News Link • Science
Solar Wind Energy Source Discovered
03-21-2013
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arclein
. The answer, it turns out, has been hiding in a dataset from one of NASA's oldest active spacecraft, a solar probe named Wind.
Launched in 1994, Wind is so old that it uses magnetic tapes similar to old-fashioned 8-track tapes to record and play
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News Link • European Union
PANIC AND ANGER: Here's What I Saw At Cyprus ATMs This Morning
03-21-2013
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Business Insider
Ed. note: Earlier this week, Christina Avraam, a freelance photojournalist in Cyprus, sent us incredible photos she'd taken of the bailout protests.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
If Americans Realized How Bad Income Inequality Was Here, We Could Have Our Own Cyprus Situation
03-21-2013
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Business Insider
Over the weekend the European Union agreed to a 10 Billion euro bailout of member country Cyprus’ banking sector, but imposed as a condition of the bailout a 9.9% tax on all bank deposits above 100K Euros.[1]
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News Link • Entertainment: Sports
LeBron James Fires Death Stare At Cleveland Crowd After Erasing A 27-Point Deficit In 10 Minutes
03-21-2013
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Business Insider
With 7:03 left in the third quarter, the Miami Heat trailed the Cleveland Cavaliers 67-40.
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News Link • Food
McDonald's Hopes Its Chicken Wrap Will Crush Subway
03-21-2013
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Business Insider
McDonald's officially added a new sandwich called the "Chicken McWrap" to its permanent menu in the U.S., and Ad Age reports that this is the item the fast food chain hopes will take on Subway.
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News Link • Housing
Existing Home Sales Rise 0.8%, Prices Rise For 12th Straight Month
03-21-2013
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Business Insider
Existing home sales for February were up 0.8 percent month-over-month in February, to an annual rate of 4.98 million.
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News Link • Police State
MORE IRON BROTHERHOOD FALLOUT: Prescott Valley police chief retires, citing 'controversy'
03-21-2013
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PrescottAZ.Com
Prescott Valley Police Chief Bill Fessler announced his retirement Friday, effective immediately, in the wake of a Dec. 22, 2012, incident in which a man was reportedly injured at Moctezuma's bar in Prescott.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Police State
Photo Radar Prescott Valley, AZ
03-21-2013
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PrescottAZ.Com
Prescott Valley cop nixed wife's 7 photo radar tickets - Independent audit finds 22 instances of officers dismissing infractions for family members
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Energy
The American Shale Boom Has Barely Even Begun
03-21-2013
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Business Insider
This week, we explained why America's shale oil and gas boom is a true-blue economic game changer, and not just a flash in the pan.
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News Link • Drones
Feinstein worried armed drones coming to US, legal or not
03-21-2013
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Prison Planet
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., explained that her experience on the Senate Intelligence Committee makes her wary of drones being used in the United States, even raising the possibility that armed drones could take to the skies without government ..
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
James Holmes, and how the CIA hid the MKULTRA mind-control program
03-21-2013
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Prison Planet
Back in the early 1990s, I interviewed John Marks, author of Search for the Manchurian Candidate. This was the book that exposed the existence of the infamous CIA MKULTRA program.
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News Link • Syria
US ‘Elects’ New Syrian Leader…A Guy From Dallas!
03-21-2013
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Prison Planet
In the name of democracy, the US government has supported a variety of armed opposition fighters in Syria seeking to overthrow that country’s president, Bashar al-Assad,.....
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Syria
Gruesome Video Shows Syrian Rebel Beheading Civilian
03-21-2013
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Prison Planet
A gruesome YouTube video shows a member of the US-backed Free Syrian Army beheading a civilian in yet another example of how the west is supporting an uprising led by violent jihadist extremists.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Iran
U.S. Secret Service almost accidentally shot Iran's president
03-21-2013
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[and we just now hear about it] The agent was adjusting the side-mounted shotgun on one of the motorcade's armored follow-up Suburbans when it discharged. "Everyone just stopped. The Iranians looked at us and we looked at the Iranians...."
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News Link • Economy - International
ECB to Cyprus: Decide whom to loot or else
03-21-2013
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Reuters
The European Central Bank gave Cyprus until Monday to raise billions of euros to clinch an international bailout or face losing emergency funds for its banks and inevitable collapse.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
Welfare’s War on Drugs
03-21-2013
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http://inthesetimes.org, BY Camille Beredjick
Why laws mandating drug tests for welfare recipients are doomed to fail.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Healthcare
Shot, Then Shut Out
03-21-2013
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http://inthesetimes.org, BY Rebecca Burns
Chicago’s most crime-ridden neighborhoods have no access to trauma care.
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Bitter melon juice potently suppresses pancreatic cancer growth with no side effects
03-21-2013
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http://www.naturalnews.com, by: Ethan Evers
A new study has shown that the juice of bitter melon, a commonly eaten vegetable in Asia and Africa, markedly suppresses the growth of pancreatic tumors in mice by disrupting the cancer cells' metabolism of glucose, and literally starving them of the
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Obama Administration
US Plan for “Pinpoint Strike” Attack on Iran, Israeli Security Official
03-21-2013
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http://www.globalresearch.ca
The US is taking plans for a possible military operation against Iran “very seriously,” a senior Israeli security official, who is said to be in the know about aspects of the American plan, has told Haaretz daily.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • European Union
Europe in Crisis as Cyprus Faces National Bankruptcy
03-21-2013
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globalresearch.ca, Jordan Shilton and Chris Marsde
The vote by Cyprus’s parliament Tuesday evening to reject the terms of the European Union (EU) bailout agreed last Saturday has deepened a crisis which threatens to spread across Europe, posing the risk of national bankruptcy.
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News Link • Drones
Upcoming technology would let citizens buy drone countermeasures
03-21-2013
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naturalnews.com
In physics, there is an axiom that goes something like this: For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.
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News Link • Agriculture
'Monsanto Protection Act' to be voted on by Congress
03-21-2013
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naturalnews.com
The U.S. Congress is right now moving forward with the passage of the 2013 Agricultural Appropriations Bill
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News Link • Food
GM salmon rejected by Whole Foods, Trader Joe's, Aldi and other food retailers
03-21-2013
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naturalnews.com
In yet another blow to GMOs, several major U.S. food retailers have signed on to the "Campaign for GE-Free Seafood" found at http://www.foe.org/gefreeseafood
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News Link • Syria
Commander: Contingency Plans Under Way for Syria
03-19-2013
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Washington Post
The top US military commander in Europe said NATO countries are working on contingency plans for military action to end the 2-year civil war in Syria as President Assad's regime accused US-backed Syrian rebels of using chemical weapons.
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News Link • Syria
Islamic law comes to rebel-held Syria
03-19-2013
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Washington Post
The evidence was incontrovertible, captured on video and posted on YouTube for all the world to see. During a demonstration against the Syrian regime, a veteran activist had tossed aside a banner inscribed with the Muslim declaration of faith.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Costs of US Wars Linger for Over 100 Years
03-19-2013
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AP
An Associated Press analysis of federal payment records found that the government is still making monthly payments to relatives of Civil War veterans " 148 years after the conflict ended.
At the 10 year anniversary of the start of the Iraq war, m
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News Link • Government
Larken Rose vs. Tom Willcutts (History... Debate on "Authority" and "Government
03-19-2013
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https://www.youtube.com, .TragedyandHopeMag
History... So It Doesn't Repeat: A debate on the concepts of "authority", "government", and the "state", featuring author Larken Rose vs. attorney Tom Willcutts.
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News Link • Economy - International
Nigel Farage Message To Europeans: "Get Your Money Out While You Can"
03-19-2013
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www.zerohedge.com
In Nigel Farage's first TV appearance since the Cypriot wealth tax was announced, the Englishman pulls no punches.
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News Link • New World Order
Catherine Austin Fitts: The Looting Of America (FULL)
03-19-2013
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www.dailypaul.com
Fitts documents how trillions of dollars went missing from government coffers in the 90's and how she was personally targeted for exposing the fraud.
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News Link • Internet
The Senate is about to vote on a national Internet sales tax mandate...
03-19-2013
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www.dailypaul.com
...Call your Senators and tell them NO! NO INTERNET SALES TAX: 202-224-3121 National Internet Tax Mandate (known as the "Marketplace Fairness Act") S336 which would bring about a national tax on all Internet sales.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Mark Kelly's 'AR-15 Stunt' Provokes Giffords Photo Leak
03-19-2013
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http://www.breitbart.com, by AWR Hawkins
Mark Kelly's campaign against "assault weapons" such as the AR-15 rifle has sparked a local backlash.
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News Link • Media: Print
Newsroom staffing hits 34-year low
03-19-2013
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http://newsosaur.blogspot.com,
The number of journalists working at U.S. newspapers today is at the lowest point since the American Society of News Editors began its annual newsroom census in 1978.
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News Link • Iraq
All of this has happened before. All of this will happen again.
03-19-2013
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highclearing.com
I’m not exactly a cheerleader for the intelligence community, but I’m a bit confused by the assertion that Iraq was an intelligence failure.
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News Link • Iraq
What We Learned in Iraq
03-19-2013
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reason.com
Ten years ago this week, Americans were about to be introduced to a strange new concept: "catastrophic success."
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News Link • Iraq
18 Killed, 37 in Fresh Iraq Attacks
03-19-2013
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Antiwar.com
At least 18 Iraqis were killed and 37 more were killed in attacks focused mostly near Baghdad.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Dad: This Picture of My Son Holding a Gun Triggered a Visit from NJ Police, Family Services
03-19-2013
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www.theblaze.com
On Friday night, March 15th, two representatives from the state’s social services office (along with four local police officers) came to the Moore home and demanded to see the family’s firearms.
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