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Date Sent: 2010-03-17
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Wednesday, March 17, 2010 |
US Is Reining In Special Forces in Afghanistan -- Do you want a biometric ID card to work in America
Al-Sadr Emerge Stronger After Iraq Elections -- Holder: Osama bin Laden will never face US trial -- 2 US missile attacks kill 9 in Pakistan -- Archimedes' .45 - by L. Neil Smith -- Career Opportunities in the Torture State - by Will Grigg -- None of Your Business! - by Rep. Ron Paul, MD -- 22,000 CA Teachers to Lose Their Jobs -- US Warns EU Derivatives Ban Won't Work -- Is The US Preparing For "The Total Destruction Of Iran?" -- Housing Starts decline in February -- Rahm Emanuel’s brother wants 'three strikes' law against downloaders
-- China's latest worry: a local-debt mess -- Al-Qaeda-in-America - by
Justin Raimondo -- Contestants turn torturers in French TV experiment
-- GAO blocks [$1 Billion!] contract to firm formerly known as
Blackwater to train Afghan police -- China warns Google to obey rules even if it pulls out -- Army drops bayonets, busts abs in training revamp -- Scientists Can Read Minds with Brain Scans -- $17.5 billion jobs bill nears final OK -- Break the law and your new 'friend' may be the FBI -- America's Secret Prisons - by Stephen Lendman
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News Link • WAR: About that War
U.S. Is Reining In Special Forces in Afghanistan
03-16-2010
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NY Times
Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, the top American commander in Afghanistan, has brought most American Special Operations forces under his direct control for the first time, out of concern over continued civilian casualties and disorganization among units
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Activism
ACTION ALERT UPDATE: Tell Washington you don't want biometric ID cards to work in America
03-16-2010
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BeatTheChip.org
We contributed a modified version of Downsize D.C.'s action alert to OpEd news which is now equipped to reach the media and to send direct correspondence to congressional leaders in D.C. If you haven't sent your letter against the push for biometric
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Sheila Dean
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News Link • Healthcare
Undecideds feeling the pressure on Obama bill
3/17/10
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Boston.com
Pressure is building on dozens of uncertain Democrats in the House this week as broad health care overhaul legislation appears headed for a climactic vote, perhaps by this weekend. Obama is making phone calls, holding one-on-one meetings with rank-an
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Anonymous Watchman
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Followers of Sadr Emerge Stronger After Iraq Elections
03-16-2010
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NY Times
The followers of Moktada al-Sadr, a radical cleric who led the Shiite insurgency against the American occupation, have emerged as Iraq’s equivalent of Lazarus in elections last week, defying ritual predictions of their demise and now threatening to r
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Officials: 2 US missile attacks kill 9 in Pakistan
03-16-2010
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AP
Suspected U.S. drones fired missiles at vehicles and hit a militant hide-out in a tribal region of northwestern Pakistan, killing at least 9 insurgents. In the first attack, the drones fired 4 missiles at a vehicle and flattened a nearby house near M
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Holder: Osama bin Laden will never face US trial
03-16-2010
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AP
The comparison to convicted killer Manson angered Rep. John Culberson, R-Texas, who said it showed the Obama administration doesn't understand the American public's desire to treat terrorists as wartime enemies, not criminal defendants.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
Microsoft, Cybersecurity, and the Attack of the Body Scanners.
03/16/2010
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www.vanversive.net
First thing I would like to get to is the new 50 page cybersecurity bill that just passed the house, and is now entering the senate. It’s surprising to me that most people are not outraged by this bill. It is widely known and feared throughout the te
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Jason Van Gilder
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Did the CIA test LSD in the New York City subway system?
03-16-2010
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NY Post
On Nov. 28, 1953, Frank Olson, a bland, seemingly innocuous 42-year-old government scientist, plunged to his death from room 1018A in New York’s Statler Hotel, landing on a Seventh Avenue sidewalk just opposite Penn Station.
Olson’s ignominious en
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Census
Census Anyone?
03/16/2010
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www.sangamoncountylibertarians.com
I watched the local news do a one sided news story on the census. They trumpeted how much money we can get from the Feds. They eluded to your patriotic duty to fill out the form. They said many groups use the data. On this I found common ground with
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Tom Ansell
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Pre-Crime Policing (Updated) - by Radley Balko
03-16-2010
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Reason
To hear them tell it, the five police agencies who apprehended 39-year-old Oregonian David Pyles early on the morning of March 8 thwarted another lone wolf mass murderer. The police "were able to successfully take a potentially volatile male subject
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Sexuality: Sex and the Law
The Answer to Abortion - by Rob Sandwell
03-16-2010
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The Libertarian Enterprise
Any time someone tells me they are pro-life, my immediate reaction is to respond that they must be anti state. Of course, this is always shocking to them; I have yet to have someone enthusiastically reply, "Of course! I'm an anarchist! How'd you know
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
Archimedes' .45 - by L. Neil Smith
03-16-2010
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The Libertarian Enterprise
Recently, somebody directed my attention to an article, "Socrates' Gun" by Daniel Johnson on the website of the Salem (Oregon) News, questioning just about every aspect of the character of individuals who make the choice to exercise their unalienable
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Animal Farm in Atlanta - by Will Grigg
03-16-2010
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Pro Liberate
A loud banging on the door pried Rob Rudnick from sleep's insistent embrace shortly before 7AM. When he opened the door to the Georgia warehouse that serves as unofficial headquarters for Neal Horsley's gubernatorial campaign
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
Career Opportunities in the Torture State - by Will Grigg
03-16-2010
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Pro Liberate
8 years ago, 3 insignificant, position-seeking henchmen in the Bush administration were handed the equivalent of the Joker's improvised punji stick. The White House, at the initiative of Vice President Cheney, had secretly ordered the use of torture
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News Link • Census
None of Your Business! - by Rep. Ron Paul, MD
03-16-2010
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Lew Rockwell
You may not have heard of the American Community Survey, but you will. The national census, which historically is taken every 10 years, has expanded to quench the federal bureaucracy’s ever-growing thirst to govern every aspect of American life.
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Reference Link • Census
2010 American Community Survey
U.S. Census Bureau
On this page are examples of the current materials mailed to the sample addresses in the housing unit (HU) sample, and examples of the current materials used in the group quarters (GQ) interviewing. Also included are the HU and GQ questionnaires from
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News Link • Eugenics
You might be a member of the International Perverts and Pedophiles’ Federation (IPPF) if…
03-16-2010
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Speak Truth 2 Power
The Girl Scouts are receiving sex training manuals from the oh so thoughtful folks at Planned Parenthood.
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Healthcare
New Health Care Whip Count: 190 Yes, 206 No (205-209 with leaners)
3/15/10
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FireDogLake
The leadership says they have the votes, but projecting an aura of confidence has been a key to their pressure strategy. Bart Stupak says Democrats are 16 votes short, but pessimism has been, well, part of his strategy. So I prefer to actually, you k
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Anonymous Watchman
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News Link • Healthcare
How Democrats may 'deem' ObamaCare into law, without voting.
3/16/10
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Wall Street Journal
Under the U.S. Constitution a bill had to pass both the House and Senate to become law. Until this week, that is, when Speaker Nancy Pelosi is moving to merely "deem" that the House has passed the Senate health-care bill and then send it to Preside
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Anonymous Watchman
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News Link • Contractors, Government & Military
Pentagon official set up unauthorized team to help track and kill Taliban, say investigators
03-16-2010
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Daniel Nasaw, guardian.co.uk
Pentagon official alleged to have set up Jason Bourne-style team to help track and kill Taliban. The effort was initially aimed at gathering political and cultural information about the region to aid the US military campaign.
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Economy - International
US Warns EU Derivatives Ban Won't Work
03-16-2010
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AP
Europe's threat to ban financial derivatives trading some blame for worsening Greece's debt crisis wouldn't work, a senior US official told EU lawmakers. German, French and Greek leaders have called on a crack down on naked credit default swaps,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
California's Budget Crisis: 22,000 Teachers to Lose Their Jobs
03-16-2010
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BlackListedNews.com
State school districts had issued 21,905 pink slips to teachers and other school employees by Monday, the legal deadline for districts to send preliminary layoff notices.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Iran
Is The US Preparing For "The Total Destruction Of Iran?"
03-16-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
Hundreds of powerful US “bunker-buster” bombs are being shipped from California to the British island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean in preparation for a possible attack on Iran.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Books
Centuries later, lost play by William Shakespeare 'found'?
03-16-2010
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news.yahoo.com/s/ap
After years of literary investigation, a professor at the University of Nottingham said Tuesday he's certain "Double Falsehood, or the Distressed Lovers" was born out of "Cardenio," a play Shakespeare scholars believe existed.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Housing Starts decline in February
03-16-2010
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CalculatedRiskBlog.com
The bad news is economic growth will probably be sluggish - and unemployment elevated - until residential investment picks up.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama agencies invoking secrecy provision more often than under Bush
03-16-2010
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RawStory.com
Major agencies cited that exemption to refuse records at least 70,779 times during the 2009 budget year, compared with 47,395 times during President George W. Bush's final full budget year, according to annual FOIA reports filed by federal agencies.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Internet
Rahm Emanuel’s brother wants ‘three strikes’ law against downloaders
03-16-2010
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RawStory.com
Modeled on a similar law enacted recently in France, a "three strikes" law would force Internet service providers to cut off Internet access to any users accused three times of downloading or sharing copyrighted material without permission.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Arizona House to approve Real ID, mandatory identification today
03-15-2010
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AZ House of Representatives
Read it for yourself. Find your state rep here
http://www.azleg.gov/MemberRoster.asp?Body=H
CALL AND EMAIL BEFORE TOMORROW - TUES - 10 AM
This is the one you can't ignore. Because it wont ignore you when passed.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Anthropology
Babies Are Born to Dance
03-16-2010
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LiveScience
Babies love a beat, according to a new study that found dancing comes naturally to infants.
The research showed babies respond to the rhythm and tempo of music, and find it more engaging than speech.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Healthcare
Humans Have Sixth Taste for Fat
03-16-2010
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LiveScience
New research suggests that humans may have a previously unidentified sixth taste sense " for fat.
Researchers of the new study also found that people with a high sensitivity to the taste of fat, paradoxically tended to eat less fatty foods and wer
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News Link • China
China's latest worry: a local-debt mess
03-16-2010
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Reuters
Investors are focusing on a darker side of China's relentless investment: vast sums borrowed by local governments and plowed into white elephant projects that will never pay for themselves. A financial reckoning is not a question of if, but when
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News Link • Torture
Contestants turn torturers in French TV experiment
03-16-2010
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AFP
Game show contestants turn torturers in a new psychological experiment for French television, zapping a man with electricity until he cries for mercy -- then zapping him again until he seems to drop dead.
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • TERRORISM
Al-Qaeda-in-America - by Justin Raimondo
03-16-2010
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AntiWar
We’re fighting them over there so we don’t have to fight them over here. That was the message pounded home in the early days of the Long War " the same tired old cold war line trotted out by the Neocons and revamped for the age of terrorism.
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
GAO blocks [$1 Billion!] contract to firm formerly known as Blackwater to train Afghan police
03-16-2010
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Joby Warrick, Washington Post
Federal auditors on Monday put a stop to Army plans to award a $1 billion training program for Afghan police officers to the company formerly known as Blackwater, concluding that other companies were unfairly excluded from bidding on the job.
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Internet
China warns Google to obey rules even if it pulls out
03-16-2010
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Reuters
Google should obey Chinese government rules even if it decides to retreat from the country over hacking and censorship complaints, a Chinese government spokesman said on Tuesday.
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News Link • Military
Army drops bayonets, busts abs in training revamp
03-16-2010
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AP
Trainers hope the switch will better prepare soldiers physically for the pace of combat, with its sudden dashes and rolling gun battles. They also want to toughen recruits who are often more familiar with Facebook than fistfights.
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News Link • Legislative Mischief
$17.5 billion jobs bill nears final OK
03-16-2010
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Reuters
The first of several Democratic job-creation efforts cleared a procedural hurdle in the Senate on Monday and appeared to be headed toward final congressional approval.
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News Link • Police State
Scientists Can Read Minds with Brain Scans
03-16-2010
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LiveScience
By scanning your brain, scientists can tell what memory you are recalling. Scientists have made impressive gains recently when it comes to reading minds. For instance, through brain scans, researchers can tell what number a person has just seen, figu
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News Link • Police State
Break the law and your new 'friend' may be the FBI
03-16-2010
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AP
The Feds are on Facebook. And MySpace, LinkedIn and Twitter, too.
U.S. law enforcement agents are following the rest of the Internet world into popular social-networking services, going undercover with false online profiles to communicate with sus
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News Link • Agriculture
Game Harvesting in America
03-16-2010
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arclein
The herds of deer and flocks of turkeys have already become large. They are already large enough to support a recovery of carnivore predation and a natural acceleration of human carnivore confrontation. The woods I walked as a child were free of de
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News Link • Science
The Man Eaters
03-16-2010
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arclein
nd then, just as suddenly as he had appeared, the noise of his last 'charge' ended. What came next was a low gurgling, burping sound, the sound heard when a lion succumbs to a lethal blow, and then deadly silence.
The Man-eater of Mfuwe's reig
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News Link • Energy
Peak Oil as Soon as 2014
03-16-2010
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arclein
In a finding that may speed efforts to conserve oil and intensify the search for alternative fuel sources, scientists in Kuwait predict that world conventional crude oil production will peak in 2014 - almost a decade earlier than some other predictio
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robert klein
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News Link • Science
DR Congo Ring Formation Teases
03-16-2010
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arclein
Deforestation has revealed what could be a giant impact crater in Central Africa, scientists say.
The 36-46km-wide feature, identified in DR Congo, may be one of the largest such structures discovered in the last decade.
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