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Date Sent: 2012-04-16
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Monday, April 16, 2012 |
t h e s c h o o l s u c k s p r o j e c t - EDUCATION EVOLUTION
Charles Goyette Book Signing, Tues, 4/17, 6:30 PM Barnes & Noble, Scottsdale/Shea (Scottsdale, AZ) -- t h e s c h o o l s u c k s p r o j e c t - EDUCATION EVOLUTION -- Shocking News Cast -- The Truth About The 'Housing Bottom': Home Prices Across The Northeast Are In Total Freefall -- Military Spouses Are Being Notified Through Facebook Of Their Husbands' Deaths -- WOLFGANG MÜNCHAU: Here's The Real Reason Markets Are Freaking Out About Spain -- Web freedom faces greatest threat ever, warns Google's Sergey Brin -- NC Ron Paul Sign Making - "Inspired by the Freedom's Phoenix's LOV3" -- John Stossel: SPEAKS TO EX-FEDERAL RESERVE EMPLOYEE -- Uzbekistan's policy of secretly sterilizing women -- Don't Let Government Print Money -- Gun-Control is for the little people; just ask Pippa Middleton -- Our country is totally unprepared for the future -- 04-16-12 -- Pete Eyre - Charles Goyette - (Video & MP3 Loaded) -- Ron Paul partisans go pro -- Death toll rises to six from Oklahoma tornado -- Analysis: No simple answer to EU growth vs austerity conundrum -- Euro-Zone Exports Boost Growth Hopes -- Spain concerns weigh on stock market recovery -- Euro Falls Below $1.30 for 1st Time in 2 Months on Europe -- NH Journalist, Activist On Trial Today For Bringing Camera Into Courthouse -- Easy Ron Paul Lionel Richie Bellagio Las Vegas -- Israel Is Preparing For A Full Assault On Iran's Nuclear Facilities If Diplomacy Fails -- Video of Boy Shocked 31 Times For Not Removing Coat Finally Released -- FINALLY: Here Are Those Star Wars Condoms You've Been Waiting For -- KRUGMAN: Europe Is Committing Suicide -- China Has Admitted Its Greatest Threat -- Here's The Number One Reason Why Investment Banking In Asia Is Really Hard -- MARV Raffle: The Evolution Continues -- Israeli TV report shows air force gearing up for Iran attack, says moment of truth is near --
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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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News Link • Education: Government Schools
t h e s c h o o l s u c k s p r o j e c t - EDUCATION EVOLUTION
04-16-2012
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www.edu-lu-tion.com
A podcast, You Tube channel, and on-line community dedicated to
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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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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Reported by:
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 • 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 • 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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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Activism
NC Ron Paul Sign Making - "Inspired by the Freedom's Phoenix's LOV3"
04-16-2012
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www.youtube.com
Members of We Are Change NC get together and make signs for the upcoming primary.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Federal Reserve
John Stossel: SPEAKS TO EX-FEDERAL RESERVE EMPLOYEE
04-16-2012
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YouTube.com
John Stossel discusses the Federal Reserve System with a former Federal Reserve employee.
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Ernest Hancock
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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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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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Reported by:
Chip Saunders
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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
Euro-Zone Exports Boost Growth Hopes
04-16-2012
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http://online.wsj.com, By ILONA BILLINGTON
A fourth consecutive increase in euro-zone exports took the region's trade balance into surplus in February, data showed Monday, bolstering hopes that economic contraction will be short lived.
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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 • 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 • Sexuality: Sex and the Law
FINALLY: Here Are Those Star Wars Condoms You've Been Waiting For
04-16-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Laura Stampler
Italian art director and graphic designer Benedetto Papi has created a line of condoms for the most sexually active subset of society: Star Wars nerds.
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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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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 • 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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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 • Iran
Israeli TV report shows air force gearing up for Iran attack, says moment of truth is near
04-16-2012
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Times of Israel
In the event that negotiations fail and the order is given for Israel to carry out an attack on Iranian nuclear facilities, “dozens if not more planes” will take part in the mission: attack and escort jets, tankers for mid-air refueling, electronic w
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
Web freedom faces greatest threat ever, warns Google's Sergey Brin
04-16-2012
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The Guardian
Brin warned there were "very powerful forces that have lined up against the open internet on all sides and around the world". "I am more worried than I have been in the past," he said. "It's scary."
The threat to the freedom of the internet comes,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
US allies call for drug legalisation
04-16-2012
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http://www.aljazeera.com, Chris Arsenault
Conservatives in Guatemala and Colombia are pushing for a new approach to the drug war at the Summit of the Americas.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • World News
Americas summit ends in acrimony
04-16-2012
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http://www.aljazeera.com
Argentina's Kirchner walks out as summit unravels amid differences between US and Latin America over Cuba and Falklands.
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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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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 • 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 • Drugs and Medications
Antidepressants Could Cause Harm to Heart, Brain, and Bones
04-16-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Patrick Gallagher
Did you know that roughly 10% of the American population suffers from depression?
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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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robert klein
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News Link • Homeland Security
U.S. apologizes after Bollywood superstar detained at New York airport
04-15-2012
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AFP
The United States apologized and denied charges of racial profiling after Indian film superstar Shah Rukh Khan said he was held by authorities after jetting in on a private plane. India lodged a diplomatic complaint after Khan said he was detained fo
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