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Date Sent: 2012-01-15
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Sunday, January 15, 2012 |
Israel's Assassinations Intended To Provoke US-Iran War -- TSA Makes $400K Off Loose Change
Criminalizing Dissent in America -- Planned Regime Change in Iran and Syria -- Failed Russia Mars probe set for crash today -- Warmer summers cause
colder winters, scientists say -- Iran says not storing oil in Gulf due
to sanctions -- Newly discovered molecules in atmosphere may offset
global warming -- Romney team hits back at Obama’s ‘job destroyer’
attack -- Former prisoner can sue over order to cut dreadlocks -- GOP Presidential forum on Fox this Saturday will be prerecorded (Ron Paul went to Nevada instead) -- ‘Anonymous’ posts media moguls’ information online --
New York Churches Evicted from Meeting in Public Schools -- Russian
space agency hints sabotage caused rocket failures -- Newt hits Mitt:
‘And just like John Kerry — he speaks French, too’ -- Judge Tosses Lawsuit – Paul & Romney Only Candidates On Virginia Ballot -- CNN’s Dana Bash Gets Earful for Unfair Coverage of Ron Paul -- The
Navy Is Depending on Dolphins to Keep the Strait of Hormuz Open --
Robert Fisk: This is not about 'bad apples'. This is the horror of war
-- Bain Capital Owns Clear Channel (Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Glenn
Beck, Michael Savage, Etc.) -- Pakistan Condemns Resumption of Drone War
-- Mitt Romney's Ties to Israeli Military Intelligence -- Deficit Hawk Ron Paul Condemns Obama’s Debt Ceiling Increase Request
-- ‘LDS for Ron Paul’ Welcomes Endorsement of Utah Republican Liberty
Caucus Chair -- After F**king Gary Johnson earlier, CNN Waives Its
Debate Rules To Let Rick Perry In -- Abandoned by British justice: Student faces 10 years in US jail for setting up 'illegal' web -- DNA McSpray Foils Thieves -- Nigeria's Coming Civil War -- Activists deface Bank of America ATMs in San Francisco (Clever!!!!) -- US to occupy Persian Gulf? 'Iran is not a sitting duck!'
AZ: GOP Debate watching party at Hancock's - tomorrow, Jan 16th, 2012
- 6 p.m. til?? from South Carolina; Ron Paul Volunteer Activists
Supplies Available; Feb 22 – ARIZONA REPUBLICAN 2012 PRESIDENTIAL
DEBATE. 6 pm, Mesa Arts Center
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News Link • Israel
Israel's Assassinations Intended To Provoke US-Iran War
01-14-2012
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www.rense.com
Israel's assassination of Iranian nuclear scientists is intended to provoke a belligerent response that would cause the US to make war on Iran, as pointed out by a segment in mainstream Chris Matthews' "Hardball" TV program--especially comments of
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Homeland Security
TSA Makes $400K Off Loose Change
01-14-2012
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www.nbcsandiego.com
Turns out those airport security checkpoints aren't just for your safety, they are also a source of funds for the Transportation Security Administration.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
GOP Debate watching party at Hancock's - Monday, Jan 16th, 2012 - 6 p.m. til?? from S Carolina..
01-13-2012
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www.meetup.com/RonPaulPhoenix
Fox News will host a debate with the Republican Party of South Carolina at Myrtle Beach Convention Center on January 16th from 9:00-11:00 PM/ET.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Failed Russia Mars probe set for Sunday crash
01-14-2012
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TheRawStory.com
Russia’s space agency on Sunday called off all predictions of the likely crash site of its ill-fated Mars probe only hours before the 13.5-tonne spacecraft was due to begin its fatal descent.
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News Link • Environment
Warmer summers cause colder winters, scientists say
01-14-2012
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TheRawStory.com
Warmer summers in the far Northern Hemisphere are disrupting weather patterns and triggering more severe winter weather in the United States and Europe, a team of scientists say, in a finding that could improve long-range weather forecasts.
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News Link • Energy
Iran says not storing oil in Gulf due to sanctions
01-14-2012
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The RawStory.com
Iran has not stored oil on tankers in the Gulf, and its crude exports have not been disrupted due to mounting international pressure over its disputed nuclear program, an oil official told the semi-official Mehr news agency on Saturday.
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News Link • Environment
Newly discovered molecules in atmosphere may offset global warming
01-14-2012
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Muriel Kane via The RawStory.com
A newly discovered form of chemical intermediary in the atmosphere has the ability to remove pollutants in a way that leads to cloud-formation and could potentially help offset global warming.
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News Link • Obama Administration
Romney team hits back at Obama’s ‘job destroyer’ attack
01-14-2012
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TheRawStory.com
Republican frontrunner Mitt Romney’s team hit back Saturday atPresident Barack Obama’s campaign for portraying him as a jobs destroyer, ahead of a pivotal US election primary in South Carolina.
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
Ron Paul Tucson Meet-up signs!
01-13-2012
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Reporter Chris Haskell
Watch Video! The Ron Paul Tucson Meet-up has made quite a few new signs! Check them out! Ron Paul 2012!
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News Link • Police State
Former prisoner can sue over order to cut dreadlocks
01-14-2012
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TheRawStory.com
A former prisoner can sue a state prison employee for ordering him to shear his dreadlocks, a federal appeals court ruled on Friday.
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
GOP Presidential forum on Fox this Saturday will be prerecorded (Ron Paul went to Nevada instead)
01-13-2012
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www.examiner.com
This Saturday, January 14, 2012, Fox “news” will air a prerecorded forum/debate moderated by former Governor Mike Huckabee who has his own show on Fox “News” called “Huckabee”. Congressman Tim Scott (R-SC) will join Huckabee and will also offer quest
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
‘Anonymous’ posts media moguls’ information online
01-14-2012
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David Ferguson via TheRawStory.com
In protest of a pending anti-piracy measure currently before the U.S. Congress, the hacker group “Anonymous” has posted personal information about two of the most powerful men in media
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News Link • Constitution
New York Churches Evicted from Meeting in Public Schools
4/13/2012
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GodFather Politics
Lower court ruling (which allowed churches to meet at rented school facilities based on equal access) overturned on appeal based on "implied endorsement of religion". Issue created by oversized central government getting in its own way, tripping o
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Dennis Treybil
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Russian space agency hints sabotage caused rocket failures
01-14-2012
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Terrence Aym
The Russian Federation's space program has run into hard times. A series of spectacular failures has recently been capped by the malfunction of the country's much vaunted Mars-Phobos mission, GRUNT. After failing to boost from Earth orbit, the adva
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Terrence Aym
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Newt hits Mitt: ‘And just like John Kerry " he speaks French, too’
01-14-2012
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www.dailycaller.com
In his latest web ad, “The French Connection,” Newt Gingrich compares Mitt Romney to his fellow Bay Staters who have recently run for president. In this case, that includes showing Michael Dukakis in a tank " and John Kerry windsurfing.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Outdoor Survival
First Article of Selco’s Survival Guide
01-14-2012
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shtfschool.com
This course is about the simple and raw side of survival and not the fancy bells and whistles part. I believe this raw and very basic side of survival sometimes gets forgotten.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Judge Tosses Lawsuit " Paul & Romney Only Candidates On Virginia Ballot
01-14-2012
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www.prisonplanet.com
A federal judge has ruled that Rick Perry and three other Republican presidential candidates will not be added to Virginia’s primary ballot.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
CNN’s Dana Bash Gets Earful for Unfair Coverage of Ron Paul
01-14-2012
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www.prisonplanet.com
Bash apologists at TVNewser insists the comment made to her husband and CNN anchor John King was merely a “misplaced phrase.”
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Iran
The Navy Is Depending on Dolphins to Keep the Strait of Hormuz Open
01-14-2012
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www.theatlanticwire.com
f Iran closes the Strait of Hormuz, the U.S. Navy has a backup plan to save one-fifth of the world's daily oil trade: send in the dolphins.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Robert Fisk: This is not about 'bad apples'. This is the horror of war
01-14-2012
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www.independent.co.uk
So now it's snapshots of US Marines pissing on the Afghan dead. Better, I suppose, than the US soldiers pictured beside the innocent Afghan teenager they fragged back in March of last year. Or the female guard posing with the dead Iraqi prisoner at A
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
Bain Capital Owns Clear Channel (Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, Michael Savage, Etc.)
01-14-2012
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endoftheamericandream.com
Wouldn't it be great if a Republican presidential candidate could just buy the support of just about every major conservative talk show host in America? Well, it may not be as far-fetched as you may think. Clear Channel owns more radio stations (85
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • World News
Pakistan Condemns Resumption of Drone War
01-14-2012
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www.antiwar.com
The Pakistani foreign office claims the drone strikes are counterproductive and violate their sovereignty.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Mitt Romney's Ties to Israeli Military Intelligence
01-14-2012
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www.bollyn.com
I sort of have to chuckle when they describe you and me as being dangerous. We are dangerous to the status quo in this country - Ron Paul after his second-place finish in New Hampshire primary, 10 January 2012
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Deficit Hawk Ron Paul Condemns Obama’s Debt Ceiling Increase Request
01-14-2012
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http://www.ronpaul2012.com/
Supports H.J. Res. 77 to express disapproval of Obama’s request to increase debt ceiling in accordance with BCA of 2011
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
How to Starve Cancer Out of Your Body - Avoid These Top 4 Cancer-Feeding Foods
01-14-2012
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articles.mercola.com
"… In my practice, I was watching women get younger and younger when I was doing breast reconstruction on them. Finally, I was doing women in their 20s. I thought something is way wrong with this picture." I thought why don't we...
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
‘LDS for Ron Paul’ Welcomes Endorsement
of Utah Republican Liberty Caucus Chair
01-14-2012
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us2.campaign-archive1.com
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints notables continue to support Paul campaign
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Abandoned by British justice: Student faces 10 years in US jail for setting up 'illegal' web
01-14-2012
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Daily Mail
A British student faces up to a decade in a U.S. prison for actions which are not even a crime in the UK. Mr O’Dwyer is accused of listing places where films and TV programs could be illegally downloaded, on a website he ran from his university bedro
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
After F**king Gary Johnson earlier, CNN Waives Its Debate Rules To Let Rick Perry In
01-14-2012
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Talking Points Memo
CNN now says Rick Perry is being invited to their debate in South Carolina on January 19, two days before the big primary in which he makes his last stand. This despite the fact that he has not met any of CNN's requirements for participating
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
First Primate Chimeras Produced
01-14-2012
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arclein
chimeric animals can only develop from totipotent cells in a higher animal model: the rhesus macaque. OHSU showed this to be the case by successfully producing the world
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
DNA McSpray Foils Thieves
01-14-2012
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arclein
McDONALD'S restaurants are fighting back against thieves by blasting suspected robbers with an invisible DNA spray as they attempt to flee.
The spray, which remains on the suspect's skin for two weeks and on clothes for up to six months, has bee
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robert klein
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News Link • Environment
Sea Cucumber and Reef Repair
01-14-2012
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arclein
d determined that their dietary process of dissolving calcium carbonate (CaCO3) from the surrounding reef accounts for about half of at the total nighttime dissolution for the reef. The work is published December 23 by the Journal of Geophysical Rese
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robert klein
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
Nigeria's Coming Civil War
01-14-2012
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arclein
or its part, Boko Harem responded to the emergency declaration by issuing a 3-day ultimatum to southern Christians living in the north of Nigeria to leave. When the ultimatum’s deadline expired, Boko Harem members subsequently killed over 60 C
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Obama seeks merger of U.S. trade, commerce agencies
01-13-2012
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The RawStory.com
President Barack Obama will ask Congress on Friday for powers to merge US trade and commerce agencies in an effort to cut red tape for businesses and end government overlap, an administration official says.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Activists deface Bank of America ATMs in San Francisco
01-13-2012
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Stephen C. Webster via TheRawStory.com
Activists with the Rainforest Action Network recently devised a clever way of promoting their message: defacing Bank of America ATMs with non-adhesive stickers, bearing some startling truths about the nation’s largest financial institution.
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News Link • Military
'Standard' duty? More US battle ships head to Persian Gulf
01-13-2012
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RT.com
New British Royal Navy destroyer HMS Daring, the first of the Royal Navy's new Type 45 destroyers, leaves the southern English harbour of Portsmouth on January 11, 2012
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News Link • Iran
US to occupy Persian Gulf? 'Iran is not a sitting duck!'
01-13-2012
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RT.com
Iranian navy conducts the "Velayat-90" naval wargames in the Strait of Hormuz in southern Iran
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
The Newest Revolutions in Metamaterials Bring Invisibility Within Reach
01-13-2012
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Becky Ferreira via PopSci.com
The science of stealth has long been a matter of fading into already obscure environments. But engineers are now developing materials that could hide anything in plain sight. Instead of bending light inward, like water and glass do.
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News Link • Corruption
MF Global May Not Be Able to Pay Clients Back: Trustee
01-13-2012
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www.cnbc.com
Former customers of MF Global Holdings' collapsed brokerage were disappointed to hear on Thursday that the trustee hunting for funds missing from their accounts has no immediate plans to transfer more money to them.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Activism
Occupy protester spends 3 weeks in jail for writing on sidewalk
01-13-2012
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www.rawstory.com
Officer Phil Scaglione and Sgt. Ernest Payne arrested Osmar on Dec. 15 after telling him that is “unlawful for any person to write, print, mark, paint, stamp or paste any sign, notice of advertisement upon the surface of any sidewalk or paved street
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News Link • Government Waste
New bill would block public access to publicly-funded studies
01-13-2012
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www.rawstory.com
Taxpayers would have to shell out $15 to $35 to get behind a publisher's paid site to read the full research results. A Scientific American blog said it amounts to paying twice.
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News Link • Drug War
U.S. attorney threatens to seize 23 Colorado marijuana dispensaries
01-13-2012
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www.rawstory.com
U.S. Attorney John Walsh sent letters to 23 medical marijuana dispensaries in Colorado on Thursday, warning them that they faced legal repercussions if they did not close down within 45 days.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Government
Police Nondisclosure Rises to a New Low
01-13-2012
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www.fff.org
KOMO News reports (Jan. 4) that the City of Seattle is taking an attorney to court because he requested public records.
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
At a Romney Event Yesterday, I Was Removed and Arrested. I Still Don't Know Why.
01-13-2012
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www.dailykos.com
I’d been in New Hampshire for the past several days to follow the campaign and see some of the candidates in-person. Yesterday morning, I was chatting up a Romney campaign staffer before an event at the Gilchrist Manufacturing Company in Hudson, NH,
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News Link • Homeland Security
Lieberman's Bill to Kick Off Internment Camps
01-13-2012
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www.sott.net
For those readers who are part of the 40% of human beings who think Ignorance is Bliss, stop reading now. This article is about a truth so hard that it was actually depressing to write it.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Another ATF weapons operation comes under scrutiny
01-13-2012
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L.A. Times
Members of Congress want to see whether White Gun, like Fast and Furious, lost track of firearms that ended up with Mexican criminals.
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News Link • Police State
Amish men jailed for refusing to pay buggy fines
01-13-2012
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www.cbsnews.com
A group of Amish men were sent to jail in western Kentucky Thursday for refusing to pay fines for breaking a state highway law that requires their horse-drawn buggies to be marked with orange reflective triangles.
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Opinion • Police State
First NDAA; Now Enemy Expatriation Act
01-13-2012
Chuck Baldwin
On the heels of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), otherwise known as the "Indefinite Detention Act," comes another draconian bill designed to give the federal government the power to turn American citizens into enemies of the state for v
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