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The following articles by various authors are of significant interest. They cover many important topics including current events, historical documentation, commentaries, subjects in law, natural rights, and more. Take the time to educate yourself and form your own opinions. You will find it to be time well spent.

Navy bought fake Chinese microchips that could have disarmed U.S. missiles!

WASHINGTON - June 27, 2011 - Last year, the U.S. Navy bought 59,000 microchips for use in everything from missiles to transponders and all of them turned out to be counterfeits from China.

Wired reports the chips weren't only low-quality fakes, they had been made with a "back door" and could have been remotely shut down at any time.

If left undiscovered the result could ha

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Commentary: The Fourth of July

by Dennis Grover, American, in Independence

RENO, Nevada - July 4, 2011 - I live my life fully engulfed in joy. I live it that way because I created it that way and cannot imagine anything different. It is the Fourth of July, “Independence Day” and I have to ask; independent from what?

On this holiday I received more emails than usual exclaiming various degrees of ecst

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Fukushima children to receive radiation meters!

TOKYO, Japan - June 29, 2011 - Radiation meters will be distributed to about 34,000 children living in the largest city near the tsunami-damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant to monitor their exposure levels, a city official said Tuesday.

The decision to hand out the meters comes amid growing concern over the safety of children as the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima plant drags on

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U.S. and Swiss at impasse over IRS accord!

NEW YORK/GENEVA - June 28, 2011 - Advanced talks have bogged down on a multibillion-dollar deal between Switzerland and the United States over Swiss banks helping Amerikans to shield their money from the U.S. taxman, two sources briefed on the matter said Tuesday.

The sticking point centers on a renewed Swiss insistence that any deal leave Swiss bankers and executives employed by the

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Hackers unearth FBI report on KopBusters filmmaker!

ODESSA, Texas - June 27, 2011 - Computer hackers with the group "Lulz Security" have unearthed a Federal Bureau of Investigations intelligence assessment of Barry Cooper, the former Texas narcotics officer who turned against the drug war and began setting up hidden camera stunts looking to catch corrupt police in the act.

The document, composed in February 2009 by the FBI field offic

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International court issues arrest warrant for Qaddafi!

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (PNN) - June 27, 2011 - The International Criminal Court has issued an arrest warrant for Libyan leader Col. Moammar Qaddafi, accusing him of crimes against humanity.

The court said it had grounds to believe he had ordered attacks on civilians during Libya's four-month uprising. The Hague-based court also issued warrants for two of Col Qaddafi's top aides - his

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Commentary: Corporations are psychopathic!

by Kaitlyn Moore

June 25, 2011 - Corporations play a big role in our day-to-day activities and they are constantly making decisions that have a profound effect on our daily lives. For example: a corporation makes the decision to empty its chemical vats into a nearby river - the water supply is poisoned and residents of the adjacent town fall sick; or a corporation makes the decision