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Date Sent: 2012-07-13
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, July 13, 2012 PM edition |
Did Mitt Romney Commit Felony By Failing To Correctly Report His Status At Bain Capital?
Some arrests as LA police break up chalking arrest protest -- JPMorgan
says bad trade has ballooned to $5.8B -- Maine's Governor Paul LePage:
Reiterates IRS not far from Gestapo -- Peter Schiff: Why the Government Should Not Be in the Student Loan Business -- 07-13-12 -- Sanjiv Bhattacharya - Alma Sommer in Studio - LISTEN LIVE on LRN.FM, M-F, 9-Noon (EST) -- The military 'solution': even the military has been "militarized" -- LIBOR Explained: The largest banking corruption scandal in history -- Paul Krugman crushed by Spanish Austrian Economist Pedro Schwartz -- Reality Check: Are Independents Turning Away From Mitt Romney -- Will Ron Paul pull off one last delegate surprise? (+video) -- Update on the plurality of States dispute, and clarification -- Why Turkey won't go to war with Syria -- Hillary's Small Arms Treaty Swindle -- The Obama-Holder war on the constitution -- There Is Nothing Brave About Murdering Innocents by Remote Control -- GOP senators back sales tax on Internet purchases -- Here Come the Draft-Nappers -- Brutal Gestapo Tactics Are Being Used Against Homeowners All Over America -- Richard Branson lays out roadmap to put satellites, and his kids, into space --
Garmin's first outdoor GPS watch includes advanced navigation features
-- Pressure Builds for More Middle East War -- UK Democracy in Terminal
Decline -- Daily Paul Erroneously Flagged for Malware (Again)
AZ: Party at Hancock's - Come meet Glenn Jacobs, aka Citizen X, aka Kane (WWF) - TODAY, July 13th - 5 p.m. til ?
Ed Vallejo Tampa Chip-In; Ademo’s Wrongful Caging – Can You Pledge to Help Either?
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Ben Swann - Did Mitt Romney Commit Felony By Failing To Correctly Report His Status At Bain Capital?
07-13-2012
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www.dailypaul.com
If this or something else is a smoking gun against Mitt Romney and the Ron Paul campaign knew all along it would explain why Ron Paul and the campaign appeared to have rolled over and ceded to Romney.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Events: Arizona
Party at Hancock's - Come meet Glenn Jacobs, aka Citizen X - Friday, July 13th - 5 p.m. til ?
07-02-2012
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www.meetup.com/RonPaulPhoenix
Glenn Jacobs is a well-versed libertarian, knows what's going on in the world, and is looking to survive this thing that is coming. Hope you can come and relax while meeing with others of like-mind.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Activism
Some arrests as LA police break up protest
07-13-2012
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AP
Protesters said they were demonstrating against the recent arrests of some people for chalking on sidewalks.
"We were handing out free chalk for freedom of speech," Cheryl Aichele, 34, of the group Occupy L.A. told the Los Angeles Times.
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News Link • Corruption
JPMorgan says bad trade has ballooned to $5.8B
07-13-2012
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AP
JPMorgan Chase said a bad trade had cost the bank $5.8 billion this year, almost triple its original estimate, and raised the prospect that traders had improperly tried to conceal the blunder.
"This has shaken our company to the core," CEO Jamie D
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
Maine's Governor Paul LePage: IRS not far from Gestapo
07-13-2012
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Kennebec Journal
Gov. Paul LePage Thursday attempted to clarify his recent comment comparing the Internal Revenue Service to the Gestapo, the Nazi secret police, during a fundraiser in Vermont. However, the governor may have reignited a controversy that's made nation
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Tyger Gilbert
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News Link • Science
Oxygen Isotopes Show Local Climate Distortion
07-13-2012
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arclein
around 950 to 1250 C.E. While this time period is known as being a "dry period," the Pitt researchers have discovered an unexpected complexity to the patterns of drought.
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
The military 'solution': even the military has been "militarized"
07-13-2012
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Tom Engelhardt, Asia Times
A smaller percentage of us - less than 1% - serves in the military in this all-volunteer era of ours and, on the face of it, Washington's constant warring in distant lands seems barely to touch the lives of most Americans.
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Corruption
LIBOR Explained: The largest banking corruption scandal in history
07-13-2012
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http://www.dailypaul.com, GBAmerica
Watch this video to understand the largest banking corruption scandal in history.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • European Union
Paul Krugman crushed by Spanish Austrian Economist Pedro Schwartz
07-13-2012
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http://www.dailypaul.com, RonPaulSwede
Please watch this, and watch the end as they yell at each other 0_0!
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Will Ron Paul pull off one last delegate surprise? (+video)
07-13-2012
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http://www.csmonitor.com, By Peter Grier
Ron Paul supporters in Nebraska appear on the verge of winning a plurality of delegates from their state to the GOP convention in Tampa, Fla. That could lead to him getting 15 minutes to address the convention audience.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Update on the plurality of States dispute, and clarification.
07-13-2012
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http://www.dailypaul.com, Furious Primate
"An update on the 5 state plurality issue and the Ron Paul campaign. I have been in contact with a number of people and here is what I know so far:
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Syria
Why Turkey won't go to war with Syria
07-13-2012
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http://www.aljazeera.com, Pepe Escobar
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has yet to understand the new deal struck between Russia and the US.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Energy
The Nickel-Iron Battery
07-13-2012
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http://www.beutilityfree.com,
A Lifetime* Battery For Your Off-Grid System or Grid-tie Backup
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gun Rights
Hillary's Small Arms Treaty Swindle
07-13-2012
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http://jpfo.org, By L. Neil Smith
About every twenty-fifth message in my Inbox concerns the efforts of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to impose, on every American she claims to represent, a treaty written by and for the United Nations that would result in the end of private firea
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Obama Administration
The Obama-Holder war on the constitution
07-13-2012
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http://www.aspendailynews.com, by Nat Hentoff
For the first time in our turbulent history, a sitting member of a presidential cabinet, Attorney General Eric Holder, has been held in criminal contempt of Congress by the House of Representatives for failing, when subpoenaed, to provide key documen
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Military
There Is Nothing Brave About Murdering Innocents by Remote Control
07-13-2012
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http://www.alternet.org,
Whatever one thinks of the justifiability of drone attacks, it’s one of the least “brave” or courageous modes of warfare ever invented.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • TAXES: Internet
GOP senators back sales tax on Internet purchases
07-13-2012
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http://times247.com, Brendan Sasso and Bernie Beck
A bipartisan group of senators plans to offer online sales tax legislation on Tuesday as an amendment to a small-business tax credit bill.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Draft
Here Come the Draft-Nappers
07-13-2012
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http://lewrockwell.com, William Norman Grigg
Gen. Stanley McChrystal, former commander of NATO troops in Afghanistan, demands the re-instatement of conscription so that next time Washington commits itself to a needless foreign war "every town, every city [will be] at risk."
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Police State
Brutal Gestapo Tactics Are Being Used Against Homeowners All Over America
07-13-2012
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http://endoftheamericandream.com,
Property rights are being absolutely shredded all over America.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Richard Branson lays out roadmap to put satellites, and his kids, into space
07-13-2012
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http://www.gizmag.com, By James Holloway
Richard Branson today set out the roadmap for Virgin Galactic's immediate future by announcing that he will be taking his children along for the ride when the SpaceShipTwo (SS2) makes its inaugural flight next year (should all go to plan).
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Freeh Report: Penn State Officials Failed To Protect Children and Facilitated The Abuse
07-13-2012
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http://jonathanturley.org, by JONATHAN TURLEY
We have been following the Penn State scandal and the school’s possible culpability in the matter.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Outdoor Survival
Garmin's first outdoor GPS watch includes advanced navigation features
07-13-2012
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http://www.gizmag.com, By Chris Weiss
Garmin signals its entrance into the outdoors GPS watch segment with the fēnix. Despite its annoying punctuation and emphasis baggage, the watch appears to be a fully featured and functional wrist top for the outdoors set.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Internet
Daily Paul Erroneously Flagged for Malware (Again)
07-12-2012
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www.dailypaul.com/Michael Nystrom
Friends, it happend again. Back on June 1, Google flagged the Daily Paul as being a distributor of malware. Today it happened again.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Drudge Report Lists Condi Rice as Top Romney VP Candidate
07-12-2012
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ABC News
The Drudge Report, the conservative website, reports Thursday night that there is a new frontrunner to be Mitt Romney's running mate: Condoleezza Rice.
The Romney campaign has not commented on the report. Drudge has long appeared supportive of the
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Officer in Ticket-Fixing Inquiry Is Accused of Trying to Kill Witness
07-12-2012
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New York Times
A New York City officer accused in a broad investigation of ticket-fixing conspired with his wife to use money from his police pension to try to have one of the main witnesses against him murdered, prosecutors charged
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Food
GMO Apples don't brown
07-12-2012
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New York Times
A small company is trying to bring to market a genetically engineered apple that does not turn brown when sliced or bruised. But it has much of the rest of the apple industry seeing red.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Constitution
American Samoa Lawsuit Seeks US Citizenship
07-12-2012
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New York Times
A group of five people have filed a federal lawsuit arguing they should be U.S. citizens by virtue of being born in American Samoa, the only U.S. territory that doesn't grant that birthright.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
Yahoo! passwords hacked, 450,000 User IDs and passwords exposed
07-12-2012
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Washington Post
Yahoo is looking into a major hack that slurped up the usernames and passwords of 450,000 accounts Wednesday.
According to the security firm TrustedSec, a hacking group known as D33D Company picked up the passwords from Yahoo Voices, the Sunnyvale
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Philosophy: Libertarianism
Don't Eat Your Dog: The Surprising Moral Case for Free Enterprise
07-12-2012
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youtube (h/t Lew Rockwell blog)
Government keeps growing -- and freedom keeps shrinking -- because we fail to make the moral case for free enterprise. "We are not in an economic battle for the future of America. We are in a moral battle."
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Activism
Ernie Hancock Reports: Arizona Breakfast Club (video)
07-12-2012
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YouTube (I posted it on Daily Paul)
Ernie Hancock on Porcfest, Doug Wead, Rand Paul, and Thrive, plus more!
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Gun Rights
FBI interviews, other evidence released in George Zimmerman murder case
07-12-2012
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The Lookout
The FBI interviewed dozens of people after George Zimmerman shot Trayvon Martin, but none of them told agents they believed the killing was racially motivated, according to evidence released on Thursday.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • NeoCons
Romney is likely to spring surprise with pick for State
07-12-2012
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Washington Times
But what about John R. Bolton? The ambassador to the United Nations under Mr. Bush is on the campaign’s advisory team and is probably its most outspoken and prolific op-ed writer.
The Romney-Bolton connection firmed up in 2010 when both came out a
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Government Waste
If You're An American Taxpayer, These Are Your Most Recent Defense Purchases
07-12-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Walter Hickey
Not even the Fourth of July could stop the Pentagon from an absolutely massive week of defense spending.
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News Link • Conspiracies
Penn State Report Slams Joe Paterno, Officials for 'Concealing' Sandusky Sex Abuse
07-12-2012
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ABC News (video)
After learning of the abuse, these leaders rewarded Sandusky with a $168,000 payout and retirement perks without lifting a finger to reach out to his young victims, who were forced to perform sex acts and raped in showers at the college.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Activism
Ed Vallejo Tampa Chip-In
07-09-2012
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Ed Vallejo/Daily Paul
As the 2012 RNC looms large on the horizon, preparations are being made...
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Activism
Ademo’s Wrongful Caging " Can You Pledge to Help?
07-10-2012
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www.copblock.org
Wednesday's district court hearing in Manchester, New Hampshire landed left Ademo in jail for at least 60 days. Why? Well the start of all this was June 4th, 2011 when I used children’s chalk on a police station.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
25 Signs The Collapse Of America Is Speeding Up As Society Rots From The Inside Out
07-12-2012
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http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com
The problems that America is experiencing right now are not just confined to the field of economics.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - International
The Biggest Financial Scandal In History?
07-12-2012
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http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com
We always knew that the financial markets were rigged, but this is getting ridiculous.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Are You A Slave Of The System?
07-12-2012
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http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com,
If you went out and took a poll of the American people on July 4th (Independence Day) and asked them if they are free, what would the results look like?
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Robert Lee
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News Link • United Nations
Codex Alimentarius: UN Food Securitization Scheme
07-12-2012
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http://www.activistpost.com, Susanne Posel
In 2008, using the toxic industrial chemical melamine in liquid infant formula, 6 babies died while more than 303,000 became deathly ill from exposure in China.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gun Rights
The advantage of being armed
07-12-2012
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http://www.lsnewsgroup.com, By Thornton Parsons
The Second Amendment of the United States Constitution is one the most misunderstood and most widely discussed of the Amendments in the Bill of Rights.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Torture
Totalitarian Tools: Water Boarding Torture by U.S. and others
07-12-2012
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Thomas J. DiLorenzo, LewRockwell.com
What do the Nazi Gestapo, the Apartheid South African police, the Japanese military during World War II, Spanish "Grand Inquisitor", William Kristol, Charles Krauthammer, Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, Joe Lieberman, and Marc Levin have in common?
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News Link • General Opinion
Power Doesn’t Just Attract Mean and Stupid People " It Makes Them That Way
07-12-2012
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http://c4ss.org, Posted by Kevin Carson
In “Empire of the Rising Scum,” Robert Shea observed that, regardless of their ostensible mission, hierarchical institutions tend to be headed by people whose primary skills are careerist climbing and bureaucratic in-fighting.
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News Link • Political Theory
America Is Not a Free Country " 2012 Edition
07-12-2012
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http://foodforthethinkers.com, By Doug Newman
This July 4 we will celebrate the 236th anniversary of our independence from Britain and our birth as a free nation.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Activism
New Hampshire man serving 60 days for writing with chalk
07-12-2012
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www.examiner.com
Ademo Freeman of New Hampshire was arrested in June of last year for taking part in a protest during which activists used children's chalk to write on the sidewalk and on the exterior walls of a building during a police accountability rally.
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Angel Clark
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News Link • Police State
Seattle Police Raid Activist Home Looking for "Anarchist Materials"
07-10-2012
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the Stranger
SPD made a show of force with heavy arms and a flash grenade to serve a warrant naming "anarchist materials" as evidence. Items confiscated included a hoodie sweater and a beanie cap associated with "Occupy Seattle" activities.
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Mike Shipley
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News Link • Surveillance
Activist Communications Compromised by IMSI "Catchers"
07-05-2012
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PrivacySOS.org
Ever wondered why your cell phone reception becomes terrible at protests? Or worry that police could intercept mobile data while you are in the streets exercising your rights? You might be on to something.
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Mike Shipley
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
How the NYPD Overstated Its Counterterrorism Record
07-11-2012
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The Atlantic Wire
As Mayor Bloomberg said: "We have the best police department in the world and I think they show that every single day and we have stopped 14 attacks since 9/11 fortunately without anybody dying." Is it true? In a word, no.
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Opinion • World News
Ray McGovern: My Take
The Mystery of Arafat’s Death
07-11-2012
Ray McGovern
We may never know with complete certainty whether the still unexplained health crisis that suddenly did in Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was due to natural or unnatural causes.
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News Link • Draft
Ex-US commander McChrystal calls for reviving draft
07-11-2012
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AFP
The former US commander in Afghanistan, Stanley McChrystal, has urged that the draft be reinstated to spread the burden of fighting and to instill a sense of shared civic duty among young Americans.
The country’s all-volunteer force has performed
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Floating Base Gives U.S. New Footing in the Persian Gulf
07-11-2012
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New York Times
One of the Navy’s oldest transport ships, now converted into one of its newest platforms for warfare, arrived in waters off Bahrain, a major addition to the enlarged presence of American (special) forces in the Persian Gulf designed as a counter to I
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Uninvolved man who videotaped scuffle caged & charged with attempted murder
07-11-2012
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CopBlock
How is it they go after three life sentences only to drop the charges for lack of evidence.
We are not condoning the actions of anyone involved in the fight. We think all parties are just as responsible, but the cops had an obvious agenda because
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
U.S. cracks down on "world's largest" medical marijuana dispensary
07-11-2012
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Reuters
Federal prosecutors have filed civil forfeiture actions against an Oakland medical marijuana dispensary that bills itself as the world's largest, as part of a crackdown by U.S. authorities on California's massive cannabis trade.
The lawsuits, file
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