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Date Sent: 2012-03-16
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, March 16, 2012 PM edition |
Congress To Vote On Declaration Of World War 3 — An Endless War With No Borders, No Clear Enemies
Ron Paul Senior Adviser Bruce Fein talks Impeachment Resolution and
Republican Convention Outlook -- Afghanistan: The dead just keep piling
up -- The Student Loan Forgiveness Act of 2012 Introduced in Michigan by Congressman Clarke -- George Clooney Arrested at Sudanese Embassy -- 03-16-12--Ernest Hancock, Drew Phillips on the road - LISTEN LIVE on
LRN.FM, M-F, 9-Noon (EST) -- More than 100 homes damaged as tornados
hit Mich. -- Ron Paul in the driver’s seat -- Netanyahu Moves Closer to Iran Attack -- US to ‘Stay the Course’ on Afghan Occupation -- Terror,
Trauma, and the Endless Afghan War -- Bradley Manning Two-Day
Hearing Begins -- In the Name of Noble Freedom, No Slutty-Slut Pills
For You Unless We Say So -- Corporate
Win, Loss for the 99%: U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement Takes
Effect -- Greenhouse Gas Will Soar by 50% if Policy Does
Not Change Immediately -- Enviro
Groups Fear "Dangerously Misguided" Plan to Unleash Genetically
Modified Mosquitoes -- The Purpose of Occupy Wall Street
Is to Occupy Wall Street -- African Ping Pong: US Plays both Sides
in Uganda. -- Challenging the
Ruling Global Corporate Conglomerates. Regaining the Real Economy -- The Political and Social Crisis in Mexico -- Building a "Humanitarian"Justification
(R2P) to Intervene Militarily in Africa -- Both The Market
and Government Are Irrational -- UGANDAN
OIL: US Africa Command a Tool to Re-Colonize the African Continent -- A Decade of America Ravaging Afghanistan -- A Message from Our Criminal Government:
"We Got to Get Paid"
AZ: Richard Gage, AIA, and Founder
of Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth, in Phoenix March
16-18; Donna Hancock - 50th Birthday Party - Saturday, March 24th,
2012 - 2 p.m. til ???
CA: Freedom Law School's 2012
Freedom Rally - Fri-Mon., March 16-19 - Crowne Plaza Hotel -
Irvine, CA
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News Link • Congress-Congressmen
Congress To Vote On Declaration Of World War 3 " An Endless War With No Borders, No Clear Enemies
03-16-2012
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http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com,
The United States Congress is set to vote on legislation that authorizes the official start of World War 3.
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Ron Paul Senior Advisor Bruce Fein talks Impeachment Resolution and Republican Convention Outlook
03-16-2012
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by Kurt Wallace
‘Ron Paul Senior Advisor Bruce Fein talks Impeachment Resolution and Republican Convention Outlook’
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Afghanistan
Afghanistan: The dead just keep piling up
03-16-2012
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http://www.aljazeera.com, by Mark LeVine
It's a well-worn ritual - the expression of outrage and "shock", as President Obama put it. The "condolences to the families" offered by senior leaders of the occupying power to the latest victims of their supposedly benign occupation.
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News Link • Palestine -- Israel
Way to go, IDF!
03-16-2012
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http://www.haaretz.com,
The cyclical ritual of bloodletting between Israel and Gaza always prompts two questions: 'Who started it?' and 'Whose is bigger?'
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Free Trade
Welcome New Agorists!
3-16-12
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www.agoristmarketplace.com
Still looking to free yourself from FRN’s? Will you accept alternative currencies to FRN’s?
Please join agorist marketplace in creating a free market for the world.
Contact me with any information you would like me to add to the Connections Boa
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The Student Loan Forgiveness Act of 2012 Introduced in Michigan by Congressman Clarke
03-16-2012
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www.loansafe.org
This bill would forgive outstanding student loan debt for Americans who have made payments equal to 10 percent of their discretionary income for 10 years.
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News Link • World News
George Clooney Arrested at Sudanese Embassy
03-16-2012
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www.abc.news.go
Movie star George Clooney was led away in handcuffs after storming the Sudanese Embassy protesting the actions of the country's president Omar Al-Bashir, an alleged war criminal.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Weather News - Links - History
More than 100 homes damaged as tornados hit Mich.
03-16-2012
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By MIKE HOUSEHOLDER, Associated Press
Washtenaw County Sheriff's Deputy Ray Yee was the first officer on the scene in one of two hard-hit Michigan subdivisions where a tornado ripped through more than 100 homes.
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News Link • How to Help
Dead Man's Switch
03-16-2012
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deadmansswitch.net
Bad things happen. Sometimes, they happen to you. If something does happen, you might wish there was something you had told the people around you. How you feel, what you regret, where the money is stashed. For this, you need a dead man's switch.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Israel
Netanyahu Moves Closer to Iran Attack
03-16-2012
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http://news.antiwar.com, by Jason Ditz
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is once again hinting at the possibility of an attack against Iran in the near future
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Afghanistan
US to ‘Stay the Course’ on Afghan Occupation
03-16-2012
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http://news.antiwar.com, by Jason Ditz
With the war in Afghanistan seemingly blowing up in their faces, top Obama Administration officials are as determined as ever to shrug off criticism and insist that things are going just swimmingly, no changes required.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Afghanistan
Terror, Trauma, and the Endless Afghan War
03-16-2012
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http://www.commondreams.org, by Amy Goodman
We may never know what drove a U.S. Army staff sergeant to head out into the Afghan night and allegedly murder at least 16 civilians in their homes, among them nine children and three women.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Employment & Jobs
Does Labor Have Any Real Friends?
03-16-2012
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http://www.commondreams.org, by David Macaray
Despite well-meaning attempts at mitigating or sugar-coating it, organized labor has always known, deep-down, that the only true friend it had was labor itself.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Makers, Takers and $2-a-dayers
03-16-2012
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http://www.commondreams.org, by Michelle Chen
One official measure of poverty around the world is surviving on $2 per day or less. It’s a condition many Americans could barely imagine living in.
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News Link • Politics: Democratic Campaigns
Why Labor's Rank and File Won't Campaign for Obama
03-16-2012
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http://www.commondreams.org, by Shamus Cooke
A surreal fog hangs over U.S. labor unions’ enthusiastic endorsement of Barack Obama.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Bradley Manning Two-Day Hearing Begins
03-16-2012
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http://www.commondreams.org, Common Dreams staff
Pfc. Bradley Manning, accused of leaking classified material to website Wikileaks, is appearing in court today, beginning a two day pre-trial motion hearing in Fort Meade
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
In the Name of Noble Freedom, No Slutty-Slut Pills For You Unless We Say So
03-16-2012
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http://www.commondreams.org, by Abby Zimet
The latest insanity in lady news comes from Arizona, where the state Senate passed a measure giving employers the power to deny prescribed birth control pills to any female employee unless she provides proof she's not using it for, umm, birth control
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Philosophy: Fascism
Corporate Win, Loss for the 99%: U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement Takes Effect
03-16-2012
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http://www.commondreams.org, Common Dreams staff
The U.S.- Korea Free Trade Agreement (KORUS) takes effect today, and is being met with heated protests over the deal's rewarding the interests of big business while crushing the 99%.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Climate Change
Greenhouse Gas Will Soar by 50% if Policy Does Not Change Immediately
03-16-2012
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http://www.commondreams.org, Common Dreams staff
Global greenhouse gas emissions will rise 50 percent by 2050 unless current energy and climate policies change soon, according to a report released today by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Biology, Botany and Zoology
Enviro Groups Fear "Dangerously Misguided" Plan to Unleash Genetically Modified Mosquitoes
03-16-2012
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http://www.commondreams.org, Common Dreams staff
The Florida Keys Mosquito Control District is having a town hall meeting tonight about a plan to release genetically modified mosquitoes in order to control the population of Aedes aegypti, the mosquito responsible for the spread of dengue fever.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Activism
The Purpose of Occupy Wall Street Is to Occupy Wall Street
03-16-2012
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http://www.commondreams.org, by Michael Moore
Occupy Wall Street. What other political movement in modern times has won the sympathy and/or support of the majority of the American public"in less than two months?
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Africa: On the Map
African Ping Pong: US Plays both Sides in Uganda.
03-16-2012
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http://www.globalresearch.ca, by Richard Cottrell
The Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) rampaging around Uganda is nothing more than a US and Mossad-backed guerilla force.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - International
Challenging the Ruling Global Corporate Conglomerates. Regaining the Real Economy
03-16-2012
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http://www.globalresearch.ca, by Prof. John McMurt
REGAINING THE REAL ECONOMY FROM THE CANCER SYSTEM:
THE CHOICE SPACE FOR HUMANITY’S EVOLUTION OR DESTRUCTION
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Mexico
The Political and Social Crisis in Mexico
03-16-2012
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http://www.globalresearch.ca, by Dan La Botz
While in Mexico in March as part of a labour union delegation from the United States to meet with Canadian and Mexican union officials, I was given this book by a professor of history and design at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).
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Robert Lee
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News Link • NATO
"Trusted Messengers" and "Humanitarian Groups" Target Russia and China, Endorse
03-16-2012
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http://www.globalresearch.ca, by Richard Nogueira
Recently “humanitarian” groups such as Amnesty International and Avaaz have been targeting Russia (and China to a lesser extent) in relation to the current Syrian conflict.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Military
Building a "Humanitarian"Justification (R2P) to Intervene Militarily in Africa
03-16-2012
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http://www.globalresearch.ca, Mail & Guardian Onli
It has been viewed more than 77-million times around the world, but not by those who know Joseph Kony best: his victims in northern Uganda.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Government
Both The Market and Government Are Irrational
03-16-2012
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http://www.globalresearch.ca, by Dr. Paul Craig Ro
One of the great economic myths is that markets are rational. Not a day passes without this myth being disproved scores of times, but the myth persists.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Africa: On the Map
UGANDAN OIL: US Africa Command a tool to Recolonise the African Continent
03-16-2012
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http://www.globalresearch.ca
The USA Africa Command, which America calls ‘Africom’, is a military structure of the Defence Department of America. Africom was formed in 2007 during President George W Bush’s second term of office.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Gold Jumps Fuel Cell Effectiveness
03-16-2012
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arclein
Advances in fuel-cell technology have been stymied by the inadequacy of metals studied as catalysts. The drawback to platinum, other than cost, is that it absorbs carbon monoxide in reactions involving fuel cells powered by organic materials like
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Tweens Indecisive on Cigarettes and Alcohol
03-16-2012
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arclein
ave yet to decide one way or the other. Because they are especially susceptible to social influences, media portrayals of drug use and peer pressure become stron
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robert klein
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News Link • Food
Red Meat Consumption Risk
03-16-2012
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arclein
This study provides clear evidence that regular consumption of red meat, especially processed meat, contributes substantially to premature death," said Hu. "On the other hand, choosing more healthful sources of protein in place of red meat can conf
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News Link • Environment
Bloodhounds Track Elephant Poachers
03-16-2012
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arclein
She said the European Union-backed canine project "will have a significant impact on the poaching problem in the park, particularly in protecting the vulnerable elephant population as demands for ivory increase worldwide."
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robert klein
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
John Stossel's Illegal Everything
03-15-2012
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youtube (h/t The Agitator)
This Stossel special will blow your mind! The government, especially the EPA is out of control as well as local prosecutors trying to make a name for themselves.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Conspiracies
SEC likely to win its defense of ‘no-admit’ Citigroup settlement, appellate panel says
03-15-2012
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Washington Post
Federal regulators won an initial round Thursday in their defense of Wall Street fraud settlements that include no admission of wrongdoing.
The Securities and Exchange Commission and Citigroup “have a strong likelihood of success” in their joint e
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Auction Ends Saturday: Ron Paul Signed $100 Trillion Zimbabwe Note for benefit of the Daily Paul
03-15-2012
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Submitted by UM, dailypaul.com
Hello everyone! As many of you know Michael recently indicated he was raising money for the Daily Paul to keep the site running through to the GOP convention in August.
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
Big Pharma Pushes Drug to ‘Cure Racism’
03-15-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Paul Joseph Watson
Medical establishment seeks to chemically castrate ‘aberrant thoughts’
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Here Comes The 2012 Tidal Wave Of Foreclosures
03-15-2012
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Mamta Badkar, businessinsider.com
Foreclosure filings fell 8 percent year-over-year in February, with 206,900 U.S. properties receiving some form of filing, according to RealtyTrac's U.S. Foreclosure Market Report.
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News Link • Constitution
Can the Secret Service Tell You To Shut Up?
03-15-2012
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http://lewrockwell.com, by Andrew P. Napolitano
The First Amendment to the Constitution prohibits the government from infringing upon the freedom of speech, the freedom of association and the freedom to petition the government for a redress of grievances
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News Link • Federal Reserve
America Is On The Mother Of All Adjustable Rate Mortgages
03-15-2012
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Peter Schiff,usinessinsider.com
The Federal Reserve ran another "stress test" on major financial institutions and has determined that 15 of the 19 tested are safe,even in the most extreme circumstances:
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Out of ‘hobby’ class, drones lifting off for personal, commercial use
03-15-2012
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http://www.washingtontimes.com, By Patrick Hruby
Jordi Munoz had no training. Scant schooling. Little money. He also had a video-game console and nothing else to do.
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News Link • Afghanistan
Afghanistan wants early takeover of security: Karzai
03-15-2012
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http://news.yahoo.com
Afghanistan wants to take over control of the nation's security in 2013 not 2014 and for US troops to pull out of villages, President Hamid Karzai said Thursday, just days after a US soldier massacred 16 villagers.
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News Link • Afghanistan
Karzai calls for NATO to leave villages; Taliban scrap talks
03-15-2012
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Reuters
Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai called for NATO troops to leave Afghan villages and confine themselves to major bases after the slaughter of 16 civilians by a U.S. soldier, underscoring fury over the massacre and clouding U.S. exit plans.
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News Link • Afghanistan
Terror, Trauma, and the Endless Afghan War
03-15-2012
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http://www.truthdig.com, By Amy Goodman
We may never know what drove a U.S. Army staff sergeant to head out into the Afghan night and allegedly murder at least 16 civilians in their homes, among them nine children and three women.
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News Link • Homeland Security
Anarchy, Murder and Mayhem for Fun and Profit - by Joe Collins
03-14-2012
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L. Neil Smith's The Libertarian Enterprise
What would be the best way to start a revolution, and not get caught? One day, this came to me in a moment of inspiration: What if a piece of software was directing the assassination of certain people? That story premise eventually became my first pu
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