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Economy - Economics USA Freddie Mac Loses $6.3B in 3Q
11-06-2009
AP
Freddie Mac's losses narrowed to $6.3 billion in the third quarter, but the government-controlled mortgage finance company didn't need a federal cash infusion. The McLean, Va.-based company has received about $51 billion since it was seized by federa
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Humor WARNING SIGN: Seen Outside a WV Bar
11-06-2009
Mondo Frazier
Everybody's got their own special problems--as evidenced by this sign outside a WV bar.
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Entertainment: Movies The Fourth Kind Versus Fire in the Sky: Actual Events, Hoaxes, or Hollywood Hype?
11-06-2009
Ginn
Its The Fourth Kind versus Fire in the Sky and whether the two films are, indeed, based on actual events.
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Education: Government Schools Budget Loses at Polls Worry Valley Schools
11-06-2009
The Arizona Republic
Support for bond measures dipped this year in which valley voters supported 20 out of 36 school district bond and budget override ballot measures. As a result, valley school districts are worried.
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Science, Medicine and Technology Malaria Vaccine Trial
11-06-2009
arclein
The trial, which is expected to involve up to 16,000 children, is on schedule, with more than 5,000 children already enrolled, researchers announced Tuesday at the 5th Multilateral Initiative on Malaria Pan-African Malaria Conference.
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Depression The gun that beat inflation: How the Colt Peacemaker outshone gold
11-06-2009
MarketWatch.com
There is an old and apocryphal saying that "a good handgun is worth an ounce of gold" and it turns out to be true -- at least it has for the past 136 years.
Because it is basically unchanged after 136 years of continuous production and because the
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Military Fort Hood Tragedy
11-06-2009
Christine Smith's Blog
An incident as this sure exposes the degree of the sad pathetic state of lack of critical thought among the American people.
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Law Enforcers or Peace Officers Mistrust Hinders ID of Cleveland Slaying Victims
11-06-2009
AP
Police say there's only one way for the families of missing women to know for sure if their loved ones are among the victims found in suspected serial killer Anthony Sowell's house: Give DNA samples. But relatives are reluctant to donate.
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Arizona's Top News Twilight 'Zona: Tennis Seniors Arrested
11-06-2009
Fanhouse
Ray Moore and George Morell know. Moore was wrestled to the ground by a cop, a knee in his back while he was cuffed, apparently bleeding. Both were arrested, and spent the bulk of the day in jail. "They're in their 80s, you know,'' she said.
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Torture Voices of Gitmo
11-06-2009
The Agitator
This ACLU video profiles the Gitmo prisoners detained, tortured, and then released without charge.
You might keep the recent 2nd Circuit ruling my colleague Jacob Sullum wrote about yesterday in mind while watching.
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Law Enforcers or Peace Officers Why The Innocent Flee From The Police - by Will Grigg
11-06-2009
Pro Liberate
Why did he run?" This question thrusts itself upon us every time an unarmed or otherwise harmless person is gunned down while fleeing from police.
Often that inquiry takes the form that assumes the guilt of the victim: "If he did nothing wrong,
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Law Enforcers or Peace Officers This is not your mother's America...nor your father's
11-06-2009
Wendy McElroy
In The Examiner, Gary Reed reports on the "kidnapping" by law enforcement and forced medication of libertarian activist Julian Heicklen. The synopsis: Heicklen arrived at the US District Courthouse in New York City in order to pass out pamphlets to p
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Police State Stick a fork in the U.S. It's done.
11-06-2009
Wendy McElroy
Federal authorities can resume combing through the notebooks, memory cards and computers of a twittering anarchist being investigated for violating an anti-rioting law, a federal judge ruled finding no reason to throw out the governments search of t
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Economy - International G20 to stay the course on economic bailouts for their friends
11-06-2009
Reuters
The Group of 20 leading nations will agree this weekend it is too early to pull the plug on emergency support for the global economy and launch a new system of checks to help rebalance world growth and prevent future crises.
British finance minist
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Arizona's Top News Words made officer who took papers suspicious
11-06-2009
Simple Justice
"Going to," "steal" and "money."
Those 4 words, grouped in the same sentence, prompted a Maricopa County sheriff's detention officer to rifle through a defense attorney's file last month, according to court testimony.
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General Opinion Weekend Watching - Juan Enriquez: The Untied States of America
11-06-2009
TED via Daily Paul
Previously, Juan Enriquez from TED did a great talk called 'The Utimate Reboot.' Here is a breathtaking talk based on his book by the same title, The Untied States of America: Polarization, Fracturing, and Our Future.
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Conspiracies Goldman Sachs' Governmental Connections
11-06-2009
McClatchy Newspapers
Greg Gordon talks to the Real News Network about former Goldman Sachs execs in powerful government positions making decisions about which companies live and die on Wall Street.
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Martial Law MARTIAL LAW IN THE UKRAINE * PRESIDENT ANNOUNCES ARRESTS OF OPPONENTS OF FORCED VACCINATION AND QUAR
11-05-2009
http://www.theflucase.com/index.php?option=com_con
The Ukrainian President Victor Yushchenko has issued a statement strongly suggesting that the government is preparing to carry out mass forced vaccinations with the untested swine flu jab.
In a statement posted on the government website, Yushchenk
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Housing Fannie Mae to rent out homes instead foreclosing
11-05-2009
AP
Thousands of borrowers on the verge of foreclosure will soon have the option of renting their homes from Fannie Mae, under a policy announced Thursday.
The government-controlled company, through its new "Deed for Lease" program, will allow borrowe
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Space Travel and Exploration Device Like 'Star Trek' Replicator Might Fly on Space Station
11-05-2009
Space
Space explorers have yet to get their hands on the replicator of "Star Trek" to create anything they might require. But NASA has developed a technology that could enable lunar colonists to carry out on-site manufacturing on the moon, or allow future
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Economy - Economics USA Banks in Ga., Mich., Minn., Mo., Calif. closed
11-06-2009
AP
Regulators on Friday shut banks in Georgia, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, and California, bringing the number of bank failures this year to 120 amid the struggling economy and a cascade of defaults on loans.
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. to
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WAR: About that War Prospect of More U.S. Troops Worries Afghan Public
11-06-2009
NY Times
If the foreign forces are not seen so by Afghans already, they are on the cusp of being regarded as occupiers, with little to show people for their extended presence, fueling wild conspiracies about why they remain here.
The feeling is particularl
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Employee and Employer Relations Broader Measure of Unemployment Stands at 17.5%
11-06-2009
NY Times
In all, more than one out of every six workers 17.5 percent were unemployed or underemployed in October. The previous recorded high was 17.1 percent, in December 1982.
This includes the officially unemployed, who have looked for work in the la
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Science, Medicine and Technology Ancient Ocean Chemistry
11-06-2009
Now a research team led by geoscientists at the University of California
, Riverside corroborates recent evidence that oxygen production began in Earth's oceans at least 100 million years before the GOE, and goes a step further in demonstrating tha
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Science, Medicine and Technology Tokamak Awakens
11-06-2009
arclein
After decades of effort to improve the behavior and output of fusion plasmas, scientists are discovering that nature may actually be so kind as to simultaneously allow high performance (lots of electricity!), optimal efficiency (affordable!), and hig
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Space Travel and Exploration Star Trek's Warp Drive: Are We There Yet?
11-06-2009
Space.com
Marc Millis, former head of NASA's Breakthrough Propulsion Physics Project, explains how physicists approach the intriguing possibility of faster-than-light travel.
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Activism Morpheus on PBS world! Tucson Tea Party
11-06-2009
Oct 12, 2009 Tucson, AZ Armed with signs, petitions, flags, and their voices around 6,000 people descended on Tucson Electric Park Saturday to demonstrate their frustration with President Obama and what they see as government run amok.
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Criminal Justice System Did Joe Sullivan, sentenced to life at 13, have a fair trial?
11-06-2009
Slate
Next week the Supreme Court will hear arguments, in Sullivan v. Florida, about whether sentencing a 13-year-old boy to prison without the possibility of parole violates the cruel-andunusual-punishment clause of the Constitution. Joe Harris Sullivan
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China China Blasts U.S. Duties Ahead Of Obama Visit
11-06-2009
Reuters
A U.S. trade panel on Friday approved two new investigations into charges of unfair trade practices by China, but rejected another one week ahead of President Barack Obama's trip to Asia.
The U.S. International Trade Commission voted 6-0 to back t
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Political Parties If voting could change things it would be illegal
11-06-2009
Classically Liberal
The recent off-year elections seemed to favor the Republicans. Of course, the Republicans immediately chimed in that this was approval by the American public for their policies.
Nope. Once again that is wishful thinking.
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Law Enforcers or Peace Officers The police are a privileged and damnable elite
11-06-2009
Wendy McElroyThe police are a privileged and damna
If I make the conscious and consistent choice over time to brutalize the innocent in order to draw a nice salary and safe pension....then I am piece of ethical filth that decent society should revile. I don't even have the patina of an excuse to avoi
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Precious Metals Gold futures top $1,100/oz for first time
11-06-2009
Reuters
Gold futures in New York rose to a record above $1,100 per ounce on Friday as the dollar eased in the wake of disappointing U.S. employment data.
At 9:48 a.m. EST December gold was up $10.20 at $1,099.50 an ounce at the COMEX division of the New Y
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Economy - Economics USA Central banks lead subtle shift away from dollar
11-06-2009
Reuters
Central banks with trillions of dollars in reserves that are already stepping up euro and yen purchases will likely continue doing so in coming years, driven by worries over the stability of the greenback. A record U.S. budget gap and the rise of dyn
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Employee and Employer Relations U.S. unemployment rate hits 10.2 percent
11-06-2009
Reuters
[The true U6 unemployment rate is 20%.] The U.S. jobless rate [U3] unexpectedly jumped to a 26-1/2-year high of 10.2 percent last month, adding to pressure on the Obama administration to do more to tackle unemployment even as signs of recovery mount.
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Corruption Sen. Grassley Seeks to Censor Drug War Solutions
11-06-2009
Science Blogs
Sen. Charles Grassley is trying to make sure that commission can't even consider the possibility of decriminalizing or legalizing any currently illegal substances.
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Corruption 10 Years Ago, Congress Allowed For "Too Big To Fail"
11-06-2009
HuffPo
On the 10th anniversary of Congress voting to repeal the Glass-Steagal Act, current members of the body are talking about ways to potentially bring it back.
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Employee and Employer Relations US job market grim despite improving signals
11-05-2009
AFP
US jobless insurance claims are trending lower from a March peak, official data confirmed Thursday, but unemployment within a fraction of 10 percent challenges recovery from recession.
A pair of Labor Department reports highlighted the grim condit
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Science, Medicine and Technology Deep Space Objects Guide Earth's GPS System
11-05-2009
Space
That global positioning system (GPS) that guides your car and keeps you on the map is itself guided by the positions of some of the brightest, strangest objects in the universe quasars.
GPS satellites send signals to a receiver in GPS navigators
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Healthcare Flu shots for Wall Street stirs ire in New York
11-05-2009
Reuter
New York City health officials scrambled to explain themselves in the wake of media reports about bankers who got scarce H1N1 flu vaccines through their employers.
Members of Congress fired off letters demanding immediate explanations and the U.S. C
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