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Date Sent: 2010-04-22
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Thursday, April 22, 2010 |
Missing police tape in UMd. beating surfaces with 2 min. deleted -- Obama is Open to VAT Tax
Video: 420 Rally @ ASU, Students for Liberty and ASU NORML -- Green groups cheer volcano ash cloud -- Bilderberg Headed to Spain -- U.S. Soldier on 2007 Apache Attack: What I Saw -- Ernie Interviews Karen Kwiatkowski and Gary Franchi -- Groups ask DHS to suspend full-body imagers -- Nikola Tesla's Earthquake Machine -- ACTA treaty aims to deputize ISPs on copyrights - by Declan McCullagh -- Obama, Congress ignore their pledge of fiscal discipline -- Police Raid Homes Of White Supremacists -- SPLC Publishes Patriot Hit List - by Chuck Baldwin -- Making Earthquakes - Popular Science May 1932 -- Senate to ask Moody's chief why bad bonds got good ratings -- OKC Bombing: Scott Horton Interviews Jesse Trentadue -- IMF says major currencies may need to weaken -- Experimental X-37B Robot Space Plane to Launch Tomorrow -- Tea partiers in two camps: Sarah Palin vs. Ron Paul -- Hitler Parodies Booted Off YouTube -- Google Exposes Government Takedown Requests -- TSA Hard at Work: 93 Year Old Involved In Shake Down Over Applesauce -- China Just Grew Its Oil Demand By 10x -- G-20 Agenda: Major Plan for Global Tax of Banks, Just Ahead --
Sending the message of freedom to Iraq... -- Google wants to give the
gov your cell phone number! -- Angst rises as Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer
mulls immigration bill
AZ: Breakfast today: Nuclear Plants versus Environmentalists on Earth Day
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Missing police tape in UMd. beating surfaces with 2 min. deleted
04-21-2010
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WTOP
A missing surveillance video covering the area where a University of Maryland student was beaten by police last month has been found -- sort of. Channel 7 has learned the previously missing 90-minute disc has a two-minute gap.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Obama is Open to VAT Tax: But Not Until After the 2010 Mid-Term Election
04-21-2010
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Businessinsider.com/
"It's something that would be novel-- for the United States. And before, you know, I started saying, "This makes sense or that makes sense." I want to get a better picture of what our options are".
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Conspiracies
Bilderberg Found In Spain
04-21-2010
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RestoreTheRepublic.com
The Bilderberg group will conduct its annual meeting June 3-6 in Sitges, Spain (a small, exclusive resort town about 20 miles from Barcelona) behind a wall of armed guards who will seal off the resort in a futile attempt to keep the event secret.
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • WAR: About that War
U.S. Soldier on 2007 Apache Attack: What I Saw
04-21-2010
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Wired
Ethan McCord had just returned from dropping his children at school, when he turned on the TV news to see grainy black-and-white video footage of a soldier running from a bombed-out van with a child in his arms. He knew exactly who the soldier was.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Environment
Green groups cheer volcano ash cloud
04-21-2010
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Alertnet
Green groups are cheering the Icelandic volcano for shutting down air traffic all over Europe, thus lessening CO2 emissions from aircraft which they say contributes to global warming.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Tea Party
Glenn Beck the Prophet: ‘God is giving me a plan’
04-21-2010
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RawStory.com
"I can feel it coming," Beck began. "It's darkness, and I can just feel it coming.' And I started to say -- I said, 'The problem is, is that--' and I stopped, because I don't want to utter something like this without really thinking it through.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Groups ask DHS to suspend full-body imagers
04-21-2010
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CNN
More than 30 privacy and civil liberties groups are asking the Department of Homeland Security to suspend the use of full body imagers at airports, saying there is evidence that privacy safeguards don't work and the devices are not effective.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Marking to Market Commercial Real Estate: "Triggers Chain Of Bankruptcies"
04-21-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
The truth, as Richard Koo points out, is that were the FASB to show the real sad state of affairs, the two core industries in the US - finance and real estate, would be bankrupt.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Human Jawbone Grown From Stem Cells By Scientists At Columbia
04-21-2010
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Reuters (video)
Scientists at Columbia successfully grew an anatomically-accurate human jawbone using human stem cells. Despite its small size, the jawbone is one of the most structurally complex bones in the human body. The achievement is a big breakthrough in for
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Marking to Market Commercial Real Estate: "Triggers Chain Of Bankruptcies"
04-21-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
The truth, as Richard Koo points out, is that were the FASB to show the real sad state of affairs, the two core industries in the US - finance and real estate, would be bankrupt.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
McCain: Illegal immigrants intentionally cause car accidents & supports SB1070
04-21-2010
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Rawstory
Sen. John McCain threw his support behind what appears to be the nation's stiffest immigration law in Arizona -- and even took it one step farther. McCain said undocumented immigrants are a threat to American citizens because they are intentionally c
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Conspiracies
Nikola Tesla's Earthquake Machine
04-21-2010
Tesla said finally the structure began to creak and weave and the steel-workers came to the ground panic-stricken, believing that there had been an earthquake. Police were called out. Tesla put the vibrator in his pocket and went away. Ten minutes mo
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Internet
ACTA treaty aims to deputize ISPs on copyrights - by Declan McCullagh
04-21-2010
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cNet
Internet service providers become copyright cops encouraged to block access to suspected pirate Web sites. A section of the proposed digital copyright treaty says immunity from lawsuits would be granted Internet providers "disabling access" to
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Obama, Congress ignore their pledge of fiscal discipline
04-21-2010
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McClatchy News
President Obama and congressional leaders vowed tough budget discipline when they approved a "pay as you go" requirement, but they've avoided paying for major programs twice. They've also let the deadline for producing a budget outline pass
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Police Raid Homes Of White Supremacists
04-21-2010
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AP
The Southern California homes of dozens of white supremacists were raided as part of a probe into a string of potentially deadly booby trap attacks targeting police officers. None of the arrests were directly related to the booby trap attacks
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Philosophy: Conservatism
Quotes on America by the Founders and other real Americans (Part 2)
04/21/10
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Uncommon Sense
Below is part 2 of a compilation of inspiring quotes about our nation, liberty and our national values. They put the challenges and rewards of a free Republic into perspective. It is fascinating how many of these could have been written in the last y
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Dave Johannes
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News Link • Conspiracies
Senate to ask Moody's chief why bad bonds got good ratings
04-21-2010
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McClatchy News
Following the nation's financial crisis, which culminated in the near collapse of Wall Street in September 2008, the heads of most major firms involved have stepped aside, been removed by the government or were forced out by corporate boards.
Howe
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
John McCain: Introducing the Johnny Mac v2.0
04-21-2010
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Mondo Frazier
Who knew that John McCain was for a border fence? For securing the southern border"with troops! That he was NEVER “The Maverick”: the conservative-bashing RINO beloved by the Washington Post and the NY Times? The amazing transformation of John McCain
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Police State
AUDIO: OKC Bombing: Scott Horton Interviews Jesse Trentadue
04-21-2010
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From Pat Buchanan - http://buchanan.org
AntiWar Radio: Jesse Trentadue discusses the journey from investigating his brother’s “suicide” in federal custody to finding the truth about the Oklahoma City bombing, a recent court setback on FOIA requests that nevertheless revealed CIA involvemen
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
IMF says major currencies may need to weaken
04-21-2010
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reuters.com/
Heavily indebted rich countries may need to weaken their currencies to promote exports because reducing government debt will probably slow domestic growth, an IMF official said on Wednesday.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Military
Experimental X-37B Robot Space Plane to Launch Today
04-21-2010
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Space
The United States Air Force plans to launch its first robotic X-37B space plane on a 9 month mission that is a forerunner of things to come. A second mini-space plane is already under contract and is projected to be launched next year.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
Tea partiers in two camps: Sarah Palin vs. Ron Paul
04-21-2010
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Politico
Tea party activists are divided roughly into 2 camps, according to a new poll: one that’s libertarian-minded and largely indifferent to hot-button values issues and another that’s culturally conservative and equally concerned about social and fiscal
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
Hitler Parodies Booted Off YouTube: Death of a Web Meme?
04-21-2010
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PC World
YouTube has recently begun removing videos that feature content from Constantin Films' 2004 film, Der Untergang ("Downfall"), despite the fact that many of these videos are parodies and thus constitute fair use of the material.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
Google Exposes Government Takedown Requests
04-21-2010
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PC Magazine
The government requests tool is rather sparse; it merely shows the number of requests [Google] has received from each country, and the types of the content it has been asked to remove. There are no further descriptions of the removed content.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Immigration
Baling Wire, Spit and Gum: Virtual border fence a ‘complete failure'
04-21-2010
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federaltimes.com/
The Homeland Security Department today said its virtual border fence has been a "complete failure," and is trying to figure out how to proceed on the troubled $2 billion project.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Homeland Security
TSA Hard at Work: 93 Year Old Involved In Shake Down Over Applesauce
04-21-2010
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Youtube.com & AfterDowningStreet.org
Janet Napalitano's TSA thugs show how to treat a wheelchair bound 93 year old and her caregivers. Now that is what I call customer service, Janet.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Energy
China Just Grew Its Oil Demand By 10x The Rate of Global Supply Growth
04-21-2010
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Businessinsider.com/
So just to put things in perspective, China grew its oil demand at over 8x the rate of global supply growth last month. Moreover, for the entire first quarter of 2010 Chinese oil demand grew even faster:
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - International
G-20 Agenda: Major Plan for Global Tax of Banks, Just Ahead
04-21-2010
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EconomicPolicyJournal.com
Using the current crisis environment to expand global control of the banking sector, which will ultimatley lead to the directing of bank funds towards global government favored projects, the IMF plans to call for extensive new taxation...
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Jack Gregson
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Opinion • Activism
CONNECTING THE DOTS
HIGHEST HONOR TO ERNEST HANCOCK AND WHY
04-21-2010
Frosty Wooldridge
Ernest Hancock commands my highest affection, honor and sense of civility. He proves himself a man of letters, noble thought and integrity. He honors the most powerful and basic tenant of this Constitutional Republic: our 1st Amendment rights.
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News Link • Economy - International
More Capital for World Bank Signals More Global Trouble Ahead
04-21-2010
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EconomicPolicyJournal.com
Bottom line: While government leaders are painting a hopeful picture of the economy, what needs to be paid attention to is not the happy talk, but the actions of global leaders which is all about re-stocking for more financial problems ahead.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Down This Path, the Outlook is General Impoverishment for the Country
04-21-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
The Russians have been out there saying they’re buying gold, Canadian bonds, and diversifying their positions. Well, here they are doing it. At some point, enough people around the world will say they don’t want to be in dollars anymore...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Here Is How Your New, Soon To Be Worthless Money, Will Look Like
04-21-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
Judging by Ben Bernanke's recent abnormal behavior, we are quite confident the Fed forgot to add at least three zeroes to the latest version of the Benjamins.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Positive News
Google wants to give the gov your cell phone number! Check out the video!
04-21-2010
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RealityReport.TV
http://RealityReport.TV | http://RestoreTheRepublic.com | Is Obama deliberately going after Goldman Sachs to further his own agenda? Are the Tea Parties starting to taste like fascism? Will Google give the Government your cell phone number? Are your
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Uncle Freedom
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Angst rises as Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer mulls immigration bill
04-21-2010
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Arizona Republic
The nation's battle over immigration reform landed squarely on Arizona Gov. Brewer's office steps. And with 4 days left to decide what she'll do about one of the state's most divisive issues in the midst of an election year, the pressure is mounting.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Seriously?
The People of WalMart
04-21-2010
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peopleofwalmart.com
There is no reason to send us pictures of...(the)handicapped so don’t be an a*shole...there is a difference between someone who is mentally challenged and a person who has a fu Manchu and is still rocking MC Hammer pants.
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Jet Lacey
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News Link • Science
Graphene Films Clear Fabrication Hurdle
04-21-2-10
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arclein
They have successfully used direct chemical vapor deposition (CVD) to synthesize single-layer films of graphene on a dielectric substrate.
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Water Splitting Virus
04-21-2010
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arclein
A team of MIT researchers has found a novel way to mimic the process by which plants use the power of sunlight to split water and make chemical fuel to power their growth. In this case, the team used a modified virus as a kind of biological scaffold
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robert klein
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News Link • Climate Change
Long Term Climate Pattern
04-21-2010
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arclein
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) "" In an analysis of the past 1.2 million years, UC Santa Barbara geologist Lorraine Lisiecki discovered a pattern that connects the regular changes of the Earth's orbital cycle to changes in the Earth's climate. The find
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robert klein
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News Link • Energy
North African Solar Projects
04-21-2010
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arclein
North Africa is taking a shine to solar power in a big way, with plants slated for Morocco and Tunisia as a German-led consortium pushes ahead with the world's most ambitious solar project in the Sahara Desert.
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robert klein
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News Link • Activism
SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER PUBLISHES PATRIOT HIT LIST
04/21/2010
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godlikeproductions.com
In a report on its web site dated April 2010, entitled "Meet The Patriots," the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) profiled "36 individuals at the heart of the resurgent [patriot] movement." (In reading the list, I counted only 35 "patriots" an
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Phennommennonn GLP
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