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Date Sent: 2012-06-17
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Sunday, June 17, 2012 |
Profiting From Prisons: American Teens Jailed for Having Sex or Being Late to School
Former aide says Tony Blair was pressured by Murdoch not to delay Iraq
invasion -- China sends first woman into space -- SpaceX founder talks Mars with Caltech grads -- President Obama: The Biggest Government
Spender In World History -- Swedish Political Party Wants To Make
Urinating While Standing Illegal For Men -- United Nations To Convene
Month Long Conference For International Gun Control -- How to Prepare
Your Home and Your Family for a Wildfire -- American
Narcos: The Real 'Masters of Paradise' -- Baltic ‘UFO’: New dive, new
details (PHOTOS) -- Twice as deadly: Saudi Arabia aims at 10 bln euro
tank deal with Germany -- Voters’ dilemma: Egyptians choosing president
-- Libya deploys troops to quell clashes between rival groups -- US
senators take aggressive stance ahead of Iran nuclear talks -- Washington's Imperial Brinksmanship
- by Stephen Lendman -- Europe in Crisis -- Border Control Measures Using License Plate
Tracking Halted by Activists in Utah (Updated) -- Four Horsemen
of the Apocalypse: Fossil Fuel, Nuclear Fission, Central Banking, War --
Taxmageddon: It’s Worse Than It Sounds -- With Science, New Portrait of
the Cave Artist -- Unmanned Air Force space plane lands after secret mission -- Facebook
technology chief Bret Taylor to step down -- Microsoft Is Doing Its
Own Tablet. How Do You Like Them Apples? -- Ron Paul backers seek
influence at GOP convention -- Days of pain for accusers in Penn
State sex abuse trial -- Romney borrows a page from Santorum -- Car
bombs kill 26 on last day of Iraq pilgrimage -- With Revolution’s
Fate at Stake, Egypt Votes on President -- Greek front-runners vow
to stay in euro -- U.N. Suspends
Syria Mission, Citing Increase in Violence -- Ron Paul Message to $upporter$ -- Bernanke and Obama's Next Step? -- Judicially Authorized Rape: The Newest Weapon in the Prohibitionist
Arsenal - by William Grigg -- Police Defendants Pay $210,000 To Settle Illegal
Roadblock Lawsuit -- Scoundrel Media Support for Obama -- Gaza Blockade's Fifth
Anniversary -- SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News June 17, 2012
The
Common Sense Show: June 17, 2012
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Profiting From Prisons " American Teens Jailed for Having Sex or Being Late to School
06-17-2012
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http://wakeup-world.com, By Sarah Seltzer
The case of an honors student in Texas shines light on a national problem: teens going to jail for absurd reasons.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Iraq
Former aide says Tony Blair was pressured by Murdoch not to delay Iraq invasion
06-17-2012
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Rawstory
Media mogul Rupert Murdoch telephoned then-British Prime Minister Tony Blair on March 11, 2003 " 8 days before the U.S. invasion of Iraq " and urged him not to do anything that could delay the start of the conflict.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
China sends first woman into space
06-17-2012
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AP
The crew will stay in space for more than 10 days, during which they will perform scientific experiments and the country’s first manual space docking " a complicated procedure that brings 2 vessels together in high-speed orbit.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Tony Nicklinson, Paralyzed Man With Locked-In Syndrome, Sends First Tweet Using His Eyes (VIDEO)
06-17-2012
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com
Tony Nicklinson can only communicate with his eyes, but on Wednesday the paralyzed man connected with the rest of the world through Twitter.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
SpaceX founder talks Mars with Caltech grads
06-17-2012
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AP
Fresh off SpaceX's historic return from the International Space Station, company founder Elon Musk said Friday that he would like to see humans settle Mars and become a "multi-planet species."
The 40-year-old entrepreneur reiterated his vision to
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Syria
Unwrapping Western Political Jargon
06-17-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Saman Mohammadi
Who Is A “Conspiracy Theorist” And Who Speaks For The “International Community”?
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Obama Administration
President Obama: The Biggest Government Spender In World History
06-17-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Peter Ferrara
The U.S. has never before had a President who thinks so little of the American people that he imagines he can win re-election running on the opposite of reality. But that is the reality of President Obama today.
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News Link • World News
Swedish Political Party Wants To Make Urinating While Standing Illegal For Men
06-17-2012
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http://govtslaves.info, Huffington Post
Take a stand " and sit down for what you believe in. Male representatives on the Sormland County Council in Sweden should sit rather than stand while urinating in office restrooms, according to a motion advanced by the local Left Party.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gun Rights
United Nations To Convene Month Long Conference For International Gun Control
06-17-2012
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http://govtslaves.info, SAFF
Its time once again to just say, “NO,” to the UN. As Spain deals with a bailout to “save” the economy and the country, and while the country is engaged in its worst financial crisis in recent memory, the Spanish Parliament took time this week to pus
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Robert Lee
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News Link • How To
How to Prepare Your Home and Your Family for a Wildfire
06-17-2012
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http://wakeup-world.com, By Gaye Levy
Last month the news of wildfires in Michigan, New Mexico and elsewhere sent a wake up call to those who live in fire country.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Drug War
American Narcos: The Real 'Masters of Paradise'
06-17-2012
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http://www.globalresearch.ca, Tom Burghardt
As the body count climbs across Mexico, the drugs continue flowing across the border by the ton.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • U F O and Other Unidentified Stuff
Baltic ‘UFO’: New dive, new details (PHOTOS)
06-17-2012
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http://www.rt.com
A “UFO-shaped” object, found at the bottom of the Baltic Sea last year, has puzzled many. And a Swedish expedition that plunged into the deep eventually surfaced with more questions than answers.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Military
Twice as deadly: Saudi Arabia aims at 10 bln euro tank deal with Germany
06-17-2012
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http://www.rt.com
Saudi Arabia wants to buy between 600 and 800 Leopard II main battle tanks from Germany, at least twice more than what was previously reported, a German newspaper says. The future deal is estimated to worth around 10 billion euros.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Voting and Elections
Voters’ dilemma: Egyptians choosing president
06-17-2012
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http://www.rt.com
The first day of voting in Egypt's presidential election run-off is over. Egyptians are faced with a tough decision with the ballot coming amid mass indignation after both houses of Egypt's parliament were suspended by the Constitutional Court.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Libya
Libya deploys troops to quell clashes between rival groups
06-17-2012
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http://www.rt.com
Libyan authorities have sent troops to the west of the country to quell clashes between rival militias as divisions continue to rock post-Gaddafi Libya. The area has been declared a “military zone.”
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Iran
US senators take aggressive stance ahead of Iran nuclear talks
06-17-2012
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http://www.rt.com
As Moscow braces to host the third round of talks on Iranian nuclear program the US Senators are urging President Obama to ramp up pressure against Tehran and show that “credible military option” exists should Iran fail to curb its nuclear program.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Surveillance
Border Control Measures Using License Plate Tracking Halted by Activists in Utah (Updated)
06-16-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
The War on Drugs has been threatening the fundamental rights of ordinary Americans, and greatly impinging upon states rights, as agencies like the DEA continue to claim that their federal authority supersedes local decisions.
Despite protections a
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Internet
Want More Internet Privacy? How to Turn on ‘Do Not Track’ in Your Browser
6-16-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
In recent years, online tracking companies have begun to monitor our clicks, searches and reading habits as we move around the Internet. If you are concerned about pervasive online web tracking by behavioral advertisers, then you may want to enable D
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: Fossil Fuel, Nuclear Fission, Central Banking, War
06-16-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Sense those hooves pounding around the world?
Little surprise that these four bedfellows have in their reins the fate of humanity, even life on Earth. Profit and conquest are all that matter; there is no such thing as enough, only, more.
King C
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Taxmageddon−It’s Worse Than It Sounds
06-16-2012
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FinancialSense.com
The tax hikes which are schedule for 2013 could shave 5 percent off GDP and throw the county into a full-fledged depression.
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Glenn Jacobs
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
Woman with flesh-eating disease refusing pain medications
06-16-2012
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http://www.usatoday.com, Associated Press
A Georgia woman fighting a flesh-eating disease is refusing to take pain medications during some procedures, partly because of her personal convictions, her father said.
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News Link • Anthropology
With Science, New Portrait of the Cave Artist
06-16-2012
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http://www.nytimes.com, By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD
Stone Age artists were painting red disks, handprints, clublike symbols and geometric patterns on European cave walls long before previously thought, in some cases more than 40,000 years ago...
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News Link • Secret Government Projects
Unmanned Air Force space plane lands after secret mission
06-16-2012
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http://news.cnet.com, by William Harwood
Wrapping up a classified 469-day mission, an unmanned Air Force space plane dropped out of orbit and returned to Earth on Saturday, executing an automated landing to close out the program's second test flight.
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News Link • How To
Pa. company flew tightrope across Niagara for walk
06-16-2012
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http://online.wsj.com, Associated Press
When daredevil Nik Wallenda took the first tightrope walk across the widest part of Niagara Falls, he was taking his measured steps on a cable that was guided into place by a rope that a south-central Pennsylvania company had earlier flown across the
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News Link • Internet
Facebook technology chief Bret Taylor to step down
06-16-2012
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http://www.bbc.co.uk
Facebook's chief technology officer Bret Taylor has announced he is leaving the social network site in the coming weeks to start up a new company.
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Microsoft Is Doing Its Own Tablet. How Do You Like Them Apples?
06-16-2012
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http://allthingsd.com, Ina Fried
Tired of losing ground to the iPad, Microsoft is poised to serve up its own entry in the suddenly booming tablet market.
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News Link • r3VOLution Continues
Ron Paul backers seek influence at GOP convention
06-16-2012
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http://www.stltoday.com, Associated Press
Ron Paul has given up on becoming president, but loyal supporters are promising to promote the libertarian-leaning Texas congressman's principles at the Republican national convention this summer, a potential complication for Mitt Romney's goal of a
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Romney borrows a page from Santorum
06-16-2012
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http://www.cbsnews.com, By Lindsey Boerma
Facing a group of social conservatives, his most restive constituency, likely GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney on Saturday tried on some talking points from former opponent Rick Santorum, a hero to the far right during the Republican primaries th
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News Link • Iraq
Car bombs kill 26 on last day of Iraq pilgrimage
06-16-2012
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http://www.usatoday.com,
Two car bombs in Iraq's capital killed at least 26 people Saturday on the last day of a Shiite pilgrimage already hit by multiple bombings.
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News Link • European Union
Greek front-runners vow to stay in euro
06-16-2012
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk
Angela Merkel will have to “invent a way” to kick Greece out of the eurozone, a leading Greek politician has claimed, as all political parties promise to renegotiate the country’s €130bn (£105bn) bail-out agreement after tomorrow’s pivotal elections.
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News Link • United Nations
U.N. Suspends Syria Mission, Citing Increase in Violence
06-16-2012
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By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK and DAVID E. SANGER
The United Nations said Saturday that it was suspending its observer mission in Syria because of the escalating violence, the most severe blow yet to months of effort by the United Nations to negotiate a peace plan and prevent Syria’s descent into ci
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Ron Paul Message to Supporters
06-15-2012
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Ron's YouTube Channel
After days of speculation and bewilderment, this was just released.
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Mosquitoes That Can Not Transmit Malaria
06-16-2012
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arclein
They started with mice that were infected with the Plasmodium falciparum parasite, which causes malaria. Those mice created antibodies in order to kill the parasites. The scientists identified the molecular components of this immune response, then
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News Link • Geology
Icelandic Flood Volcano Risk Sharp
06-16-2012
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arclein
have occurred in Iceland four times in roughly the past thousand years, records indicate, the most recent being the deadly and remarkable eruption of Iceland's volcano Laki in 1783-84.
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Ant Search Algorithm
06-16-2012
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arclein
One of the main technical questions in the field of social networks, whose use is becoming more and more generalized, consists in locating the chain of reference that leads from one person to another, from one node to another.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Reovirus Hitchhikes to Attack Cancer
06-16-2012
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arclein
But now tests on a small group of patients have shown that this is not the case. In fact, not only did the virus stay active during its journey through the bloodstream but it also homed in on cancer cells, ignoring nearby healthy tissue.
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Judicially Authorized Rape: The Newest Weapon in the Prohibitionist Arsenal
06-16-2012
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by William N. Grigg (Pro Liberate)
While attending Snow College in Ephraim, Utah, Cook and a friend were smoking cigarettes near a parked car when they were accosted by several police officers. Following the standard script, the officers claimed to smell marijuana and demanded to sear
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Powell Gammill
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Opinion • Books
A Perfect Gift For Independence Day
06-16-2012
Chuck Baldwin
A few years ago, I sadly discovered that it was next to impossible to find our nation’s great historic documents together in one volume, so we decided to fix that problem. It took us a full year to research and compile over 50 of our country’s greate
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Opinion • Humor
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
June 17, 2012
06-15-2012
John Semmens
President Initiates Plan to Boost Status of Illegal Aliens
A year ago, President Barack Obama told his Hispanic supporters that he lacked the authority to grant amnesty to people in the country illegally. “There are laws on the books that prohibit
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News Link • Syria
US-Backed Rebels Committing Christian Genocide In Syria
06-15-2012
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Lew Rockwell blog
According to the Vatican the US-backed Free Syrian Army rebels are sacking Christian churches, shooting Christians dead, broadcasting all Christians must be cleansed from the rebel-held villages, and even shooting priests.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Just Because You're Innocent Doesn't Mean You Aren't Guilty
06-15-2012
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USA Today
But he is serving a federal prison sentence for it. And the fact that everyone " including the U.S.Justice Department" agrees that he is legally innocent might not be enough to set him free. That he is innocent might not be enough to set him free.
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
How the Obama Auto Bailout Screwed Taxpayers and Paid Off Unions
06-15-2012
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Reuters
They note that had the administration given auto unions the same treatment as other equivalent creditors, taxpayers right now would have been $3.5 billion in the black instead of $23 billion in the red.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
US declassifies counterterror military campaigns in Yemen and Somalia; no mention of drones
06-15-2012
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Washington Post
The White House is partially lifting the lid of secrecy on its counterterrorism campaign against al-Qaida in Yemen and Somalia by formally acknowledging for the first time that it is conducting lethal attacks in those countries.
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News Link • Military
Killer Drones Coming to A Sky Near You: Rosalind Peterson Reports
06-15-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com
Darrin McBreen talks to rosalind peterson of california sky watch about the deadly consequences of the government using military unmanned drones here in america.
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News Link • r3VOLution Continues
Chuck Baldwin Warns Ron Paul
06-15-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Kurt Nimmo
During an interview on Alex Jones’ Nightly News, Pastor Chuck Baldwin concisely dissected Rand Paul’s endorsement of establishment candidate Mitt Romney and gauged its negative impact on the Ron Paul revolution.
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News Link • Internet
FBI ordered to turn over MegaUpload evidence
06-15-2012
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http://www.rawstory.com, By Stephen C. Webster
After a series of disputes and delays, U.S. investigators will have no choice but to turn over evidence against Kim Dotcom, founder of the shuttered cloud storage website MegaUpload, and his co-defendants, New Zealand’s highest court has ruled.
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Opinion • Politics: Republican Campaigns
The Dollar Meltdown
Et Tu, Rand Paul?
06-14-2012
Charles Goyette
Twice I was asked to host a Rand Paul Moneybomb, one time on his father's birthday. Out of respect for Ron Paul, I agreed. Once. But by the time the next opportunity came around a few weeks later, I declined.
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