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Date Sent: 2010-04-01
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Thursday, April 1, 2010 |
States have $5.17 Trillion in Pension Obligations, Gap is $3.23 Trillion
GATA On The Trail Of The Biggest Gold Manipulation Story Disclosed -- California Gasoline Usage declines for 4th Consecutive Year --
January Fannie Mae Delinquency Rate Climbs To New Record At 5.52% --
Engineers design pill that signals it has been swallowed -- Top Senate
Dem Admits Health Bill Was to Address "Mal-Distribution of Income" -- Pearce National ID Bill Passes Out of Committee; C4L Prevented from Testifying -- How Russell's Bill will Expand National ID - by Tom Westbrook -- Photo Van "Tarred and Feathered" (video)
-- Searchlight March 27 2010 Showing the Tea Party Express the LOVE --
Arizonans each need to cough up $8,300 to cover state employees'
pensions -- New Video: 10 Rules for Dealing with Police -- Children will face 'naked' airport scans, Government rules
-- Irish Banks Need $43 Billion in Capital as "Worst Fears Have Been
Surpassed” -- 4.5 Million Foreclosures in 2010: 18 Million Out in the
Street -- California: Tent Slums Spring Up in America -- Cocky & Arrogant Traders Allegedly Brag That They Manipulate The Market
AZ: Breakfast this morning with a cop who wants all drugs legalized; Arizona Breakfast Club this Saturday at a special location
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
States have $5.17 Trillion in Pension Obligations, Gap is $3.23 Trillion
03-31-2010
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GlobalEconomicAnalysis.blogspot.com
California, New York and other states are showing many of the same signs of debt overload that recently took Greece to the brink " budgets that will not balance, accounting that masks debt, the use of derivatives to plug holes, and armies of retired
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Immigration
Supreme Court: Bad advice on deportation can void guilty plea
03-31-2010
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McClatchy News
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that defendants are entitled to know that the potential consequences of a guilty plea include deportation for noncitizens, a decision that could have broader significance for the more than 12.8 million legal imm
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Cop pleads guilty to punching handcuffed suspect in mouth
03-31-2010
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BND
An East St. Louis police officer pleaded guilty to violating the civil rights of a handcuffed suspect he punched in the mouth. Antonio McWherter, 47, of Belleville, faces up to a year in prison and a fine up to $100,000 when he is sentenced later on
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Homeland Security
Iraqi artist who opposed Saddam now fights 'terrorist' label
03-31-2010
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McClatchy News
A federal judge is forcing the Department of Homeland Security to process the permanent-residency request of an Iraqi artist despite the U.S. government's claims that he could be considered a terrorist under post-Sept. 11 laws.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Energy
Who'd Obama please with his offshore oil drilling plan?
03-31-2010
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McClatchy News
President Obama's announcement he'll lift bans on new drilling for oil and natural gas off much of the U.S. coastline drew criticism from environmentalists and halfhearted welcomes from Republicans, as Obama called it part of a broad strategy to redu
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Judge raps government over ex-DEA agent's legal odyssey
03-31-2010
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McClatchy News
An unhappy federal judge on Tuesday approved a $3 million settlement with a former narcotics officer who said the CIA spied on him overseas.
The approved settlement caps a 16-year fight for former Drug Enforcement Administration agent Richard A.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Rajaratnam lawyers fight wiretap orders disclosurer
03-31-2010
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Reuters
The public does not have the right to see [public] court applications and orders for wiretaps in the Galleon hedge fund insider trading case, lawyers for accused fund founder Raj Rajaratnam argued on Wednesday.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
Bush wiretapping program takes hit in Calif ruling
03-31-2010
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AP
In a repudiation of the Bush administration's now-defunct Terrorist Surveillance Program, a federal judge ruled Wednesday that government investigators illegally wiretapped the phone conversations of an Islamic charity and two American lawyers withou
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Fed Reveals What Bailout Billions Bought
03-31-2010
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AP
After two years of secrecy, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York is disclosing key details about billions of dollars of risky investments it bought while rescuing insurance giant American International Group Inc. and supporting the sale of failed inv
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Camera Fraud
Down economy could mean more speeding tickets
03-31-2010
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USA Today
The recession may be claiming a new victim: the 5-10-mph "cushion" police and state troopers across the USA have routinely given motorists exceeding the speed limit. As cities and states scramble to fill budget gaps with revenue from traffic citation
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Tattoo parlor files civil lawsuit against Mesa
03-31-2010
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East Valley Tribune
The owner of a tattoo parlor whose business application was denied by Mesa to open a shop has filed a civil lawsuit against the city. Coleman’s attorney, Michael Kielsky, believes he has a case against the city because his application was denied base
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Powell Gammill
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Opinion • Religion: Believers
Words Eye View
What Day did Christ Die?
03-31-2010
Greg J Dixon
Jesus predicted, “. . . so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.” How is it possible for this to be fulfilled if Jesus died on what we call “Good Friday"?
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News Link • Militia
SPLC's Heidi Beirich: Myspace friends = broad militia ties
03-31-2010
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Detroit Free Press
Beirich said that Hutaree was not isolated from other militias, noting that it had more than 363 friends on My Space, including militias in Ohio, Kentucky and Michigan. "They were part of the broader militia movement," she said.
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Conspiracies
Don't Invest In Ridiculously-Rigged Markets: Is Janet Tavakoli Right?
03-31-2010
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Market-ticker.denninger.net/
Panic, that's what. A global market meltdown in which a handful of huge banks (who are very, very short in the futures market) suddenly get assigned for delivery - and yet they don't have, and cannot acquire, enough physical gold to make delivery...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Conspiracies
GATA On The Trail Of The Biggest Gold Manipulation Story Disclosed
03-31-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
"The CFTC, on the public record, has been shown to have known in advance of massive market manipulation, and have done nothing."
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
California Gasoline Usage declines for 4th Consecutive Year
03-31-2010
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CalculatedRiskBlog.com
Driven lower by high prices and the recession, gasoline sales in California fell for the fourth year in a row during 2009, state officials reported Tuesday. Annual gas sales in California peaked at 15.9 billion gallons in 2005 and have tumbled 7%...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
January Fannie Mae Delinquency Rate Climbs To New Record At 5.52%
03-31-2010
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CalculatedRiskBlog.com & ZeroHedge.com
Fannie Mae reported its January total serious delinquency rate for single-family houses: the rate hit a new record of 5.54%, a jump from the December's 5.38%, and double the 2.77% in January 2009.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Healthcare
Engineers design pill that signals it has been swallowed
03-31-2010
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Eureka Alert
Seeking a way to confirm that patients have taken their medication, University of Florida engineering researchers have added a tiny microchip and digestible antenna to a standard pill capsule
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Trouser Chili
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News Link • Currencies
Greek-Style Financial Crisis Hitting U.S. States? CA, NY, others to go BANKRUPT!
03/31/2010
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godlikeproductions.com
California, New York and other states are showing many of the same signs of debt overload that recently took Greece to the brink " budgets that will not balance, accounting that masks debt, the use of derivatives to plug holes, and armies of retired
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Phennommennonn GLP
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News Link • Healthcare
Top Senate Dem Admits Un-American Health Bill Was to Address "Mal-Distribution of Income"
03/31/2010
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godlikeproductions.com
There you have it! One of the largest frauds ever committed against We The People, and there's no accountability?
Every State A.G. must act immediately and declare Obamacare null and void, ab initio, and the perpetrators from the top, down held c
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Phennommennonn GLP
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News Link • Precious Metals
Andrew Maguire & Adrian Douglas: Discuss What Could Be the Largest Fraud in History
03-31-2010
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kingworldnews.com
Andrew Maguire & Adrian Douglas: Discuss What Could Be the Largest Fraud in History - Andrew is an independent metals trader turned whistleblower at the center of a storm for exposing what could be the largest fraud in history involving countries, ba
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Activism
BREAKING: Redflex Photo Van "Tarred and Feathered" in Phoenix
03-31-2010
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CameraFRAUD
A video posted to a YouTube account named "HowPatriotsShouldAct" and obtained by CameraFRAUD shows what appears to be a Redflex photo radar van being "tarred and feathered" during night time hours.
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Camera FRAUD
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News Link • WAR: About that War
The cost of war
03/31/2010
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vanversive.net
Thanks to sites like antiwar.com we know the cost of life that war brings, but here’s a great resource on the monetary costs of war in a simple counter.
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Jason Van Gilder
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News Link • Tea Party
Searchlight March 27 2010 Showing the Tea Party Express the LOVE
03-31-2010
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YouTube
Team 3 shows their video of Searchlight. The other 2 teams had their own activities and signs. For miles in all directions the "LOVE" was spread. 3500 DVD packs were distributed and Az & NV LOVEolutionaires had fun.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The ObamaCare Writedowns"II
03-31-2010
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Wall Street Journal
So the wave of corporate writedowns"led by AT&T's $1 billion"isn't caused by ObamaCare after all. The White House claims CEOs are reducing the value of their companies and returns for shareholders merely out of political pique.
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Henry Waxman's War on Accounting
03-31-2010
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The Atlantic / Megan McArdle
Henry Waxman is summoning four CEOs to Washington to explain [writeoffs required by the new government health program]. There's no chance they are going to explain the accounting code to Congress; explaining how to boil water would challenge the form
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Brock Lorber
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Feature Article • Seriously?
Seriously? Pizza Profiling?
Jet Lacey
Thanks to my friend Andy Carmichael for sending this one from my neck of the woods, right on the NY/VT/Quebec border (Note his comment at the bottom of the page). BTW - Same place as the where the Motorhome Diaries guys got into trouble.
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Arizonans each need to cough up $8,300 to cover state employees' pensions
03-31-2010
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The Goldwater Institute
Arizona’s 3 pension funds for government employees have predicted they will pay more in benefits to retirees over the next 3 decades than they will collect. But the shortfall could be 5 times larger than the pension funds have previously reported.
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Powell Gammill
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Reference Link • Tea Party
Teabonics - a Flickr Set
Flickr
These are signs seen primarily at Tea Party Protests. They all feature "creative" spelling or grammar. This new dialect of the English language shall be known as "Teabonics."
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Technology: Software
Program or Be Programmed
03-31-2010
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Douglas Rushkoff
"If we don't create a society that at least knows there's a thing called programming, then we become not the programmers, but the users, or worse, the used."
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Think You Know How? New Video: 10 Rules for Dealing with Police
03-31-2010
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Mondo Frazier
More laws, regulations and police mean more chances to run afoul of them. Extremely helpful video from Cato that details how to deal with a police encounter, which is always stressful. Video is 44 minutes long and narrated by Baltimore trial attorn
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Housing
Housing crisis turns some suburban neighborhoods into ghost towns
03-31-2010
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latimesblogs.latimes.com
Some observers say that these suburban communities could become the new slums of America. As baby boomers age, they won't need McMansions and will want to live closer to urban centers. And Generation X and Y already prefer walkable residences...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
90 Years of Data: 40% Market Move Followed By a Bust?
03-31-2010
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Businessinsider.com/
On 11 occasions, similarly rapid advances have been followed by notable corrections, including the collapses that followed the 1929 and dot-com era peaks, as well as the 1987 crash.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Ron Paul Supporter Roughed Up at AZ McCain Rally
03-30-2010
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ABC Channel 15 Mesa
The protester was clutching his pocket constitution. “I shouted my message. My intention was to speak my political opinion and leave peacefully,” Elder said. “I was immediately assaulted by the crowd. They turned angry and belligerent.”
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Sharlene Holt
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News Link • Entertainment: Music
Ted Nugent on the 2nd Amendment & Voting the Pigs Out of Office
03-31-2010
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Newsbusters Staff
“This bill is about dependency upon a government that doesn’t work,” declared rock star and conservative activist Ted Nugent regarding ObamaCare. Fox News Channel’s Neil Cavuto interviewed Nugent just before 4:30 p.m. EDT on his “Your World” program
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Sharlene Holt
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News Link • Police State
UK: Children will face 'naked' airport scans, Government rules
03-31-2010
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dailymail.co.uk/news/
The Government said in its new code of practise: 'We will be requiring all children who are selected to be screened using the scanners. To do otherwise would risk undermining the effect of these new measures.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - International
Irish Banks Need $43 Billion in Capital as "Worst Fears Have Been Surpassed”
03-31-2010
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GlobalEconomicAnalysis.blogspot.com
Ireland’s banks need $43 billion in new capital after “appalling” lending decisions left the country’s financial system on the brink of collapse.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
4.5 Million Foreclosures in 2010: Eighteen Million, Out in the Street
03-31-2010
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InformationClearingHouse.info
That’s 4.5 million homes, and with four people to a household that is eighteen million people. Eighteen million men, women and children put out into the road people who must scramble to find shelter and scramble to find...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
BBC Report on Ontario, California: Tent Slums Spring Up in America
03-31-2010
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InformationClearingHouse.info
The California tent slum depicted in the BBC report is quite different, because they are not migrant workers, so much as locals who have lost their homes. It is hard to tell if the newly dispossessed are all the victims of the subprime market.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Karl Denninger: ADP Reports Negative 23,000 Jobs in Last Month
03-31-2010
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Market-ticker.denninger.net/
I've been saying since the start of this cock-and-bull game being played by the media that there is no real recovery happening in the economy. I can't find it anywhere - I find some evidence of a leveling off of the declines, but that's not the same
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Cocky & Arrogant Traders Allegedly Brag That They Manipulate The Market
03/31/2010
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Business News, hereisthecity.com
The New York Post reports that a trader who recently accused JPMorgan of attempting to manipulate the gold and silver markets, had his car rammed in London last weekend. The police used helicopters to catch the fleeing driver, who absconded on foot.
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Lauren Roseman
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News Link • Gold and Silver
CFTC Is a BIG Story. (Video w/Link)
03/31/2010
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By TheModernMystic, YouTube.com
Interesting information regarding the gold market and the manipulators behind a global lie.
Link to Original Radio Broadcast:
http://www.kingworldnews.com/kingworldnews/Broadcast/Entries/2010/3/30_Andrew_Maguire_%26_Adrian_Douglass.html
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Lauren Roseman
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News Link • Science
Sub Sea Volcano Near Italy
03-31-2010
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arclein
Europe's largest undersea volcano could disintegrate and unleash a tsunami that would engulf southern Italy "at any time", a prominent vulcanologist warned in an interview published Monday.
The Marsili volcano, which is bursting with magma, has
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robert klein
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News Link • Agriculture
Continuing Bee Collapse
03-31-2010
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arclein
he decline in the US bee population, first observed in 2006, is continuing, a phenomenon that still baffles researchers and beekeepers.
Data from the US Department of Agriculture show a 29 percent drop in beehives in 2009, following a 36 percent d
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robert klein
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News Link • Agriculture
Global Agriculture Needs Radical Change
03-31-2010
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arclein
According to World Bank estimates, some 1.4 billion people were already living in poverty in 2005, well before the 2007 food price increases and the 2008 financial crisis. Since the financial crisis, an additional 100 million people are now believed
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robert klein
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News Link • Science
Heaven and Science
03-31-2010
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arclein
There are those who believe that science will eventually explain everything"including our enduring belief in heaven.
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robert klein
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