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Date Sent: 2012-04-16
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Monday, April 16, 2012 PM edition |
News Link • Secret Government Projects
Uzbekistan's policy of secretly sterilizing women
04-11-2012
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BBC online
The BBC has been told by doctors that Uzbekistan is running a secret program to sterilize women - and has talked to women sterilized without their knowledge or consent.
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Reported by:
Max Schofield
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Don't Let Government Print Money
04-16-2012
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JoePlummer.com
The number of people who understand the Federal Reserve System is growing every day, and that is very bad news for the FED. Perhaps most amazing is that anti-FED consensus is forming among two seemingly irreconcilable camps: Those who trust in “big g
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Joe Plummer
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News Link • Gun Rights
Gun-Control is for the little people; just ask Pippa Middleton
04-16-2012
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ABC News
Pippa Middleton, the sister-in-law of England's presumptive future king, seen in a car with a male companion who was reportedly caught brandishing a gun and pointing it at a photographer following the pair in Paris.
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • Events: Arizona
Charles Goyette Book Signing, Tues, 4/17, 6:30 PM Barnes & Noble, Scottsdale/Shea (Scottsdale, AZ)
04-16-2012
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Barnes & Noble
Former Phoenix radio talk show host Charles Goyette discusses his latest book, Red and Blue and Broke All Over. He explains how the growth of federal power and costly warfare and welfare spending are strangling our prosperity and bankrupting America.
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Donna Hancock
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Radio/TV Show • Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock - Radio
Host:
Ernest Hancock
04-16-12 -- Pete Eyre - Charles Goyette - (Video & MP3 Loaded)
Pete Eyre, voluntaryist and member of CopBlock.Org and LibertyOnTour.Com, talks about the 'MARV Raffle' (Hour 1) - Charles Goyette, author of The Dollar Meltdown and Red And Blue And Broke All Over, in studio (Hour 2 and 3)...
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Ron Paul partisans go pro
04-16-2012
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http://www.politico.com, By CHARLES MAHTESIAN
From Nevada, scene of a contentious 2008 battle between the state GOP establishment and Ron Paul supporters, more signs of the rising sophistication -- and political maturation -- of the Texas congressman’s base.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Natural Disasters
Death toll rises to six from Oklahoma tornado
04-16-2012
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http://www.reuters.com, By Steve Olafson
The death toll rose to six from a tornado that ripped through an Oklahoma town during a weekend outbreak of dozens of twisters across the Great Plains, officials said on Monday.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • European Union
Analysis: No simple answer to EU growth vs austerity conundrum
04-16-2012
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http://www.reuters.com, By Paul Taylor
Fierce debate is growing in Europe over whether austerity or growth offers the best strategy to overcome the continent's sovereign debt crisis. As if it were that simple.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • European Union
Spain concerns weigh on stock market recovery
04-16-2012
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http://www.businessweek.com, By CARLO PIOVANO
A jump in the bond yields of Spain weighed on a recovery in European stocks and pushed Asian indexes lower as investors feared Madrid may eventually need a bailout that the eurozone can scarcely afford.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • European Union
Euro Falls Below $1.30 for 1st Time in 2 Months on Europe
04-16-2012
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bloomberg, By Catarina Saraiva and David Goodman
The euro dropped to less than $1.30 for the first time in two months as Spanish bond yields touched a 2012 high after a minister called on the European Central Bank to do more to stem debt-market turmoil.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Activism
NH Journalist, Activist On Trial Today For Bringing Camera Into Courthouse
04-16-2012
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Photography Is Not a Crime
Adam “Ademo Freeman” Mueller stood inside the Keene District Courthouse in New Hampshire waiting for Judge Edward Burke to enter the building so he could ask why he would jail his friend for wearing a hat inside the courtroom.
Burke ended up havin
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Surveillance
Web freedom faces greatest threat ever, warns Google's Sergey Brin
04-16-2012
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http://www.guardian.co.uk, Ian Katz
Threats range from governments trying to control citizens to the rise of Facebook and Apple-style 'walled gardens'
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Israel
Israel Is Preparing For A Full Assault On Iran's Nuclear Facilities If Diplomacy Fails
04-16-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Robert Johnson
On May 23 the U.S., China, Russia, France, Britain, and Germany will have another sit down with an Iranian delegation in Baghdad to further discuss Tehran's nuclear future.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Video of Boy Shocked 31 Times For Not Removing Coat Finally Released
04-16-2012
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http://www.activistpost.com, Heather Callaghan
“I never signed up for him to be tortured, terrorized and abused,” Cheryl McCollins told a jury on Tuesday. “I had no idea, no idea, that they tortured the children in the school.”
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Robert Lee
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News Link • European Union
WOLFGANG MÜNCHAU: Here's The Real Reason Markets Are Freaking Out About Spain
04-16-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Joe Weisenthal
News coverage seems to suggest that the markets are panicking about the deficits themselves.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • European Union
KRUGMAN: Europe Is Committing Suicide
04-16-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Joe Weisenthal
It's really hard to argue with Paul Krugman's latest column, which argues that Europe is committing economic suicide.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • China
China Has Admitted Its Greatest Threat
04-16-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Adam Taylor
In the new issue of an influential journal, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao has admitted that corruption is the biggest threat to the country, the BBC reports.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Military
Military Spouses Are Being Notified Through Facebook Of Their Husbands' Deaths
04-16-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Jonn Lilyea
I mean, how many people could think it’d be a good idea to notify a spouse of their loved one’s death on Facebook?
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Economy - International
Here's The Number One Reason Why Investment Banking In Asia Is Really Hard
04-16-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Linette Lopez
These days, it's common to hear of young bankers jetting off to work in Asia to grab a piece of the action on the other side of the world.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Housing
The Truth About The 'Housing Bottom': Home Prices Across The Northeast Are In Total Freefall
04-16-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Keith Jurow
For nearly two years, I have been warning in my articles posted on BUSINESS INSIDER that there is no housing bottom in sight. I’ve been correct.
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News Link • Activism
MARV Raffle: The Evolution Continues
04-15-2012
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www.peteeyre.com
MARV " the Mobile Authority Resistance Vehicle and an integral part of my life and the workhorse for Motorhome Diaries, Liberty On Tour and more-recently Cop Block " is up for raffle -- Pete Eyre
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Military
Tensions as Philippines and US conduct drills
04-16-2012
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http://www.aljazeera.com
Military exercises in the South China Sea threaten to exacerbate balance of power with oil-rich Spratly Islands.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Africa: On the Map
Sudanese air force 'bombs UN camp'
04-16-2012
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http://www.aljazeera.com
UN peacekeepers' camp struck as South Sudan says several killed in air raids, but Sudan denies cross-border attacks.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Obama Administration
British Lord sets £10 mln bounty on Obama " report
04-16-2012
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http://rt.com
A British peer has allegedly announced a £10-million bounty for Barack Obama and George W. Bush, prompting his suspension from the UK’s Labour party.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Media: Television
Assange: I’ll be called a traitor, interviewing radicals
04-16-2012
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http://rt.com
What they would never say on mainstream TV " Julian Assange promises delicious revelations from his guests in The World Tomorrow on RT, hours before the world premiere.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Israel
Israeli officer hits unarmed protester in the face with rifle (VIDEO)
04-16-2012
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http://rt.com
YouTube video showing a member of the Israeli military hitting a pro-Palestinian activist with a rifle has triggered uproar both among Palestinian supporters and Israeli officials.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Afghanistan
Taliban attack: Kabul insurgency over after 18-hour assault
04-16-2012
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http://rt.com
Government forces and coalition helicopters have finally put an end to insurgents’ 18-hour attacks in Afghanistan.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • World News
Tribune for terrorist: Breivik claims murder of 77 'self-defense' (PHOTOS)
04-16-2012
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http://rt.com
He’s behind a bomb-and-shooting massacre that killed 77 people, he admits to the acts, but pleads not guilty to criminal charges.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Energy
VOLATILE OIL PRICES: The Geopolitics of Speculation: Oil-price makers and takers
04-16-2012
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http://www.globalresearch.ca, by Prof. Ali Kadri
Every market is a process of social and power relationships. In every market there are price makers and price takers.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • New World Order
THE CRIMINALIZATION OF "GLOBAL JUSTICE": Freedom Rider: The ICC is Criminal
04-16-2012
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globalresearch.ca, by Margaret Kimberley
The New World Order under U.S. dominion turns international law on its head and puts criminal-bought flunkies on the judicial bench.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
Media Disinformation and the “Arab Spring” Color Revolutions
04-16-2012
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http://www.globalresearch.ca, by Prof. James Tracy
On April 10 Democracy Now! correspondent Sharif Abdul Kouddous received the I.F. “Izzy” Stone award “for outstanding achievement in independent media.”
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Employment & Jobs
Need a job, young man? Choose mining!
04-16-2012
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MSNBC
The prospect of a fast-tracked career and a hefty starting salary has students flocking to mining schools. The Colorado School of Mines, gets more than 11,000 applications each year and accepts less than 1,000 students.
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Reported by:
Chip Saunders
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News Link • Bush Administration
CIA TORTURE: The Zelikow Memo: Internal Critique of Bush Torture Memos Declassified
04-16-2012
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globalresearch.ca, by National Security Archive
Document Sheds Light on Disputes over Treatment of Detainees
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Obama Administration
What's Left: The United States’ Barbarous Policy on Iran
04-16-2012
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http://www.globalresearch.ca, by Stephen Gowans
"Sanctions,” New York Times’ reporter Rick Gladstone writes, have subjected “ordinary Iranians” to “increased deprivations” in order to “punish Iran for enriching uranium that the West suspects is a cover for developing the ability to make nuclear we
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Obama Administration
OBAMA'S SYRIA DESTABILIZATION CAMPAIGN
04-16-2012
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http://www.globalresearch.ca, by Scott Creighton
As the UN Ceasefire Agreement in Syria reaches it’s forth day, the so-called “rebels” and “activists” are continuing their destabilization campaign now with the help of “non military aid” provided by the Obama administration and paychecks for the ter
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Robert Lee
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News Link • NATO
ARE TURKEY AND NATO CONTEMPLATING A MILITARY INTERVENTION AGAINST SYRIA ?
04-16-2012
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http://www.globalresearch.ca, by Rick Rozoff
On April 11 Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan told reporters accompanying him to China that Turkey is considering asking the 28-nation North Atlantic Treaty Organization to invoke its Article 5 collective military assistance clause against Syr
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Obama Administration
The Obama Administration Wants You To Stop Worrying and Love the Bailouts
04-16-2012
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http://motherjones.com, By Nick Baumann
The Obama administration wants Americans to realize what a good job they and the Bush administration did saving the economy from a second Great Depression.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Voting and Elections
Will Scott Walker's Recall Give Tom Barrett His Revenge?
04-16-2012
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http://motherjones.com, By Andy Kroll
The Milwaukee mayor may have the best chance of beating Wisconsin's controversial governor, but Barrett and Walker share a common foe"the state's biggest unions.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Political Parties
WTF, GOP?
04-16-2012
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By Monika Bauerlein and Clara Jeffery
Dear Republicans: You shoulda had this election in the bag. But then you took a long detour to Crazytown.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Immigration
Welcome to America: Connecting Indigenous Autonomy and Immigration
04-16-2012
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http://www.commondreams.org, by Devon G. Peña
A recent poster prepared by Michigan State University assistant professor and artist, Dylan Miner, asks that we “decolonize immigration through indigenous and migrant solidarity.”
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama Administration Must Say No to Industry Loopholes in Natural Gas Fracking Standards
04-16-2012
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http://www.commondreams.org, by Frances Beinecke
Energy companies have drilled more than 75,000 wells in the past five years, many of them on farmlands, near public schools, and in people’s backyards
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Afghanistan
Blasts Rock Afghanistan, NATO in Taliban 'Spring Offensive'
04-16-2012
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http://www.commondreams.org, Common Dreams staff
Fighting continues in one of the biggest attacks since 2001
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama approves non-lethal aid to Syrian rebels
04-16-2012
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http://www.rawstory.com, By Agence France-Presse
US President Barack Obama has approved non-lethal US aid, including communications equipment and medicines for Syria’s rebels, and plans to increase the package over time.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Water Issues-Water Fluoridation
Top Scientist: Fluoride Already Shown to Cause 10,000 Cancer Deaths
04-16-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Mike Barrett
Water fluoridation is a highly controversial topic, with many individuals voicing massive concern over the practice.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Activism
Activists plan week of protests against new House cybersecurity legislation
04-16-2012
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http://thehill.com, By Brendan Sasso
In an attempt to re-create the backlash that killed anti-piracy legislation earlier this year, activists are planning a "week of action" beginning on Monday to protest the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA).
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Robert Lee
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News Link • World News
Egyptian presidential candidates barred
04-16-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Al Jazeera
Just as in the US, the establishment hand picks the presidential candidates in “post-revolutionary” Egypt.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Obama Administration
RED ALERT: Buffet Rule Is Criminal Scam
04-16-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Alex Jones
The same criminal mega banks that pulled off the banker bailout heist are set to run an even bigger scam.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • China
China’s mysterious Internet outage; speculation over a ‘kill switch’
04-16-2012
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http://www.zdnet.com, By Hana Stewart-Smith
Temporary blackouts leave China’s Internet users unable to access many Chinese Web sites as well as other unblocked foreign sites.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
China's North Korean Thorn
04-16-2012
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arclein
"China has pressured North Korea to abandon (the launch) because it adds new variables and gives the United States an excuse to return to Asia," the source with ties to the leadership told Reuters, requesting anonymity to avoid repercussions.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The Truth About Wisconsin
04-16-2012
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arclein
First, Walker ended the unions’ automatic collection of dues from members’ paychecks, cutting off a major source of union funds. Next he required state workers to contribute a modest 5.8 percent of their salaries toward their pensions and to cover 12
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News Link • History
Going Beyond Vimy with David Frum
04-16-2012
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arclein
Those battles " collectively known as the Hundred Days " have been brilliantly summarized in a short book that, if it were up to me, would be assigned to every high school student in Canada: Shane Schreiber’s Shock Army Of The British Empire.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Former Reporter Files Suit Against Cop Who Deleted Her Footage
04-15-2012
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Photography Is Not a Crime
A news reporter caught Albuquerque police officer Stephanie Lopez on camera roughing up a teenager outside a nightclub last year, so Lopez did what came natural to her.
She confiscated the reporter’s camera, took it home with her, scanned through
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News Link • Drug War
Obama: ‘I don’t mind debate’ but no to legalizing drugs
04-15-2012
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Rawstory
President Obama continued his opposition towards legalizing drugs, including marijuana, this weekend ahead of the Summit of Americans in Colombia.
In an interview with Univision’s Enrique Acevedo for Al Punto, Obama said that although he was open t
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News Link • Cuba
Obama concludes Summit of the Americas on the defensive about inviting Cuba
04-15-2012
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Washington Post
President Obama concluded a contentious hemispheric summit on the defensive Sunday as it ended without agreement on whether Cuba’s Communist leaders should be invited to the next meeting, something the United States firmly opposes.
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