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Date Sent: 2010-05-06
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Thursday, May 6, 2010 |
US deploys thousands of drones in Afghanistan -- Police cameras to flood Manhattan to prevent attack
BREAKING: Redflex Cameras to Come Down -- Bureau of Land Management was doing a surprise inspection on oil rig 2 hours before it exploded -- L.A. orders 439 medical marijuana dispensaries to close -- Iran 'Twitter Revolution' comes to Paris -- The rebel Jesus was a libertarian -- Drug War is a Real War–on American Citizens -- Currency Wars: Prelude to an SDR Based Sovereign World Currency? -- Stocks, Euro Tumble on Debt Concern -- Town Bans Bottled Water Sales -- Middle class getting pushed into poverty and working poor -- Fed Documents Reveal Secret Lobbying Effort Against Audit Provisions -- Audit Fed: It Has Taken Actions Which Are Far Beyond Its Authorized Powers
AZ: Today Breakfast on PhotoRadar in
Arizona with Michael Kielsky; CameraFraud PhotoRadar protest sign wave
at The Phoenician (Redflex event inside) at 4:30PM until sunset today
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
US deploys thousands of drones in Afghanistan
05-05-2010
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PressTV.ir
The US is deploying thousands of drones in Afghanistan, raising suspicions as to whether the move is aimed at monitoring militants or targeting another country.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Police State
Police cameras to flood Manhattan to prevent attacks
05-05-2010
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AFP
NY officials say they could stop attacks like the attempted Times Square car bomb by expanding a controversial surveillance system so sensitive that it will pick up even suspicious behavior. New York is already a heavily policed city, with 35,000 off
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Events: Arizona
PROTEST Thursday: Redflex and Taser CEOs
05-05-2010
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CameraFRAUD - The Cameras are Coming Down
Please join other activists for a demonstration Thursday to show the CEOs of Redflex and Taser some LOVE as they arrive at a Phoenix Business Journal event honoring them.
WHEN: Thursday, May 6th @ 4:30 PM
WHERE: PHOENICIAN RESORT, 6000 E C
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Reported by:
David Alpha
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
BREAKING: Redflex Cameras to Come Down
05/05/2010
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Freedoms Phoenix Exclusive
Mumbles from within the bowels of DPS and Redflex indicate that their failed automated ticketing scheme will soon come to an end on valley freeways, as the state program will not be renewed.
Stationary and mobile cameras are expected to be re
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Reported by:
David Alpha
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News Link • Tea Party
Socialists come out of the closet -
05/06/2010
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Uncommon Sense
At last they are starting to admit what their real agenda is… if you haven’t figured it out yet the goals are socialism and redistribution of wealth! The rats are no longer afraid to come out of the dark.
Shortly after taking office Obama told
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Reported by:
Dave Johannes
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News Link • Activism
The Best Anti-Arizona Protest Signs
05-05-2010
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BuzzFeed
This past weekend rallies were held across the country protesting Arizona's new immigration law. So what does that mean for you? A new batch of protest signs, of course! Enjoy.
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Reported by:
Brock Lorber
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Cognitive Bias song
05-05-2010
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Boing Boing
An AP Psychology teacher wrote a song enumerating several types of cognitive bias -- the blindspots in our thinking -- for his students. It's catchy, educational, and it might save you from getting conned, voting for a bastard, or having a stupid fig
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Political Theory
They’re All Republics of Fear
05-05-2010
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C4SS / Thomas L. Knapp
“Tutto nello Stato, niente al di fuori dello Stato, nulla contro lo Stato.” Mussolini’s dream is the end state toward which all schemes of coercive government inexorably pull the societies they afflict.
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Reported by:
Brock Lorber
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News Link • Positive News
PA Big Brother Tax Ad/Big Government
05/05/2010
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RealityReport.TV
Have you seen it? This might be the most disturbing video I have seen a government agency put out. (It begins 30 seconds into this video - it is surrounded by commentary). The link also has a very powerful video with Alex Jones. Other notes: Is your
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Reported by:
Uncle Freedom
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News Link • Bioterrorism
Update: Confirmed, White Substance Mailed to Governor Brewer
05-05-2010
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redstate.com via DrudgeReport.com
...(yesterday) morning, police and the fire department responded to a call from the first floor of the executive tower of the Arizona Capitol.
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • False Flag Operations
Bureau of Land Management was doing a surprise inspection on oil rig 2 hours before it exploded
05-05-2010
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Liberty Cap Press/The Invisible Hand
This clip from an exclusive interview of Zac Zimmerman of Zimmerman Oil on The Invisible Hand podcast with Tracy R. Twyman reveals the little-known fact that the Bureau of Land Management was doing uncharacteristic surprise inspections the day of the
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Tracy Twyman
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News Link • Legislative Mischief
Alan Mollohan: Escaping Corruption Indictment not an Endorsement
05-05-2010
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Mondo Frazier
Dick Morris recently said that congressman Alan Mollohan ($-WV) is the "worst member of Congress." That's saying a mouthful about this corrupt congress. Mollohan proudly points that he was not indicted on federal corruption charges. Don Surber remind
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Drug War
L.A. orders 439 medical marijuana dispensaries to close
05-05-2010
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LA Times
The shops must close before a long-debated city ordinance takes effect June 7, or face criminal and civil penalties. About 130 dispensaries that registered with the city could be allowed to stay open.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Iran
Iran 'Twitter Revolution' comes to Paris
05-05-2010
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AFP
Iran's so-called "Twitter Revolution" came to a Paris shopping street in an exhibition that takes some of the thousands of mobile phone videos shot by anti-government protestors and turns them into art. International and local Iranian media were bann
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama biggest recipient of BP cash
05-05-2010
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Politico
While the BP oil geyser pumps millions of gallons of petroleum into the Gulf of Mexico, President Barack Obama and members of Congress may have to answer for the millions in campaign contributions they’ve taken from the oil and gas giant over the yea
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Philosophy: Libertarianism
Jesus was a libertarian
05-05-2010
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Common Law
Jesus led an ideological revolution against the hypocrisy of the establishment organized religion of His time (the "scribes and Pharisees" etc.) and their political power.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
'Los Suns' jerseys set for Cinco de Mayo
05-05-2010
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ESPN
The Phoenix Suns will wear "Los Suns" on their jerseys in Game 2 of the Western Conference semifinals on Wednesday night, owner Robert Sarver said, "to honor our Latino community and the diversity of our league, the state of Arizona, and our nation."
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Reported by:
Donna Hancock
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News Link • Drug War
Drug War is a Real War"on American Citizens
05-05-2010
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Mondo Frazier
Video of a Missouri family has their door broken down in the middle of the night by the guys whose job it is to "Serve and Protect." Their family pets are shot--including their corgi--while their young son is a startled on-looker.
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Currencies
Currency Wars: Prelude to an SDR Based Sovereign World Currency?
05-05-2010
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JessesCrossRoadsCafe.blogspot.com/
Unity of currency without unity of government and fiscal policy and taxation is difficult if not impossible to maintain. One world currency is the step to one world government. And those who control the currency will, almost inevitably, control the..
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - International
Stocks, Euro Tumble on Debt Concern; S&P 500 Pares Losses
05-05-2010
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Bloomberg
The MSCI World Index of stocks erased its 2010 gain, the euro weakened to a 14-month low and Treasuries rallied on concern Europe’s debt crisis is worsening.
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Reported by:
Donna Hancock
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
The Vanquished Grasp That War is Necrophilia
05-05-2010
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InformationClearingHouse.info
They see that war is a state of almost pure sin with its goals of hatred and destruction. They know how war fosters alienation, leads inevitably to nihilism, and is a turning away from the sanctity and preservation of life.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Environment
Town Bans Bottled Water Sales
05-05-2010
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The Boston Channel
The town of Concord has banned the sale of bottled drinking water in town beginning in 2011. Seriously?
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Housing
Clueless Propaganda in Phoenix: 7,064 Foreclosures a Month is Hopeful
05-05-2010
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AZcentral.com
Last month, lenders started foreclosure proceedings on 7,064 Valley homes, down
12 percent from March, according to the Information Market.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - International
Spain Facing the Abyss
05-05-2010
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Bloomberg.com
“Spain has looked into the abyss,” said Gary Jenkins, head of credit research at Evolution Securities Ltd. in London. “After last week, they cannot assume liquidity will always be there. They have to prove they are worthy of it.”
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Science
Huge Asteroid Pallas Visible From Earth
05-05-2010
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Space.com
This week, the huge asteroid Pallas reaches opposition, being opposite to the sun in Earth's sky, making it a prime target for avid skywatchers.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Precious Metals
Jim Rickards Tells CNBC's Joe Kernen Gold Is Going To $5,000
05-05-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
Rickards replies that he isn't, and follows it up with some gold price target observations based on "8th grade math": the former LTCM man sees gold going up by at least 10 times, and hitting $5,000 rather easily.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Gold and Silver
The U.S. and world economies
05-05-2010
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Daily Paul
Rickards References King World News Interview / Possible DOJ Investigation of JPM Silver Manipulation on CNBC
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Precious Metals
Rosenberg: The Case For Gold Going To $3,000 Is Getting Stronger By The Day
05-05-2010
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Businessinsider.com/
So contagion risks loom and there are simply not enough trees on the planet
that can provide enough paper currency to backstop countries like Portugal and
Spain.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - International
European Union, Currency Are Headed for Collapse: Gartman
05-05-2010
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CNBC.com
The current European debt crisis likely will not end until the euro collapses as a currency and takes the entire European Union with it, said Dennis Gartman, hedge fund manager and author of "The Gartman Letter."
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - International
The World Should Now Be Considered in Revolution
05-05-2010
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EconomicPolicyJournal.com
Different philosophies, completely different views of the world, but the Times Square bomber, the Tea Party movement, the Ron Paul movement and the protesters in Greece have one thing in common, a rejection of control by the global plotters.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Gun Rights
Gun Control Politicians Pushing Gun Owner Blacklist Bills
05/05/10
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AmmoLand Shooting Sports News
They want to use secret No Fly List as a possible reason to deny your second amendment rights...
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Fredy Riehl
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News Link • Economy - International
Huge Violent Riots In Greece, 20 People Trapped Inside Burning Athens Bank
05-05-2010
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Businessinsider.com/
How on earth can you convince other countries to bail you out, when this is your reaction to budget cuts?
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Middle class getting pushed into poverty and working poor status
05-05-2010
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MyBudget360.com
What is not discussed in this recession is the working poor and middle class have taken on the burden of this financial calamity disproportionately. We are not all in this equally.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - International
German Banks Face Massive Exposure to Defaulting PIIGS
05-05-2010
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Businessinsider.com/
German banks' exposure to Greece is huge, at 33 billion euros as shown in the graphic from Der Spiegel below, but their exposure to Italy and Spain is far larger at 123.5 and 156.4 billion euros respectively.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Economic Propaganda: Gamblers are Returning to Arizona Casinos
05-05-2010
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AZcentral.com
"This is a 3.5 percent decrease from the same quarter of last year but gaming operations are actively working their way back," said Mark Brnovich, director of the Arizona Department of Gaming.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Fed Documents Reveal Secret Lobbying Effort Against Audit Provisions
05-05-2010
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Infowars.com/
White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel is reportedly working closely with the Fed to kill off the audit provisions at all costs to protect the power structure dominated by the international banking elite.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Audit Fed: It Has Taken Actions Which Are Far Beyond Its Authorized Powers
05-05-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
In the name of preventing inflation - the Fed is guaranteeing prolonged deflation and the lack of a sustainable recovery. However, this is arguably an exercise of core monetary policy by the Fed.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
MS Vitamin D Pregnancy Link
05-05-2010
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arclein
Low vitamin D levels have long been linked to a higher risk of MS. Experts suspect an expectant mother's lack of exposure to sunlight - the main source of vitamin D - may affect the fetus's central nervous system or immune system, and predispose it
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robert klein
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News Link • Climate Change
Bjorn Lomborg on Earth Day
05-05-2010
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arclein
It may be unfashionable to point this out, but without the high-yield agricultural practices developed over the past 60 years, virtually all the forests of the world would have to have been cleared to make way for food production. And starvation woul
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robert klein
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News Link • Science
New Madrid Downgraded
05-05-2010
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arclein
In making this stepwise reduction, Hough questioned the accuracy of the report that the largest of the earthquakes rang church bells in Boston, Mass., more than 1,700 kilometers away. Boston newspapers carried no mention of such an occurrence, says H
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robert klein
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News Link • Science
Woolly Mammoth Ran Cold
05-05-2010
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arclein
The extinct beasts had a form of antifreeze blood that kept their bodies supplied with oxygen in the sub-zero temperatures, according to a study of DNA extracted from 43,000-year-old mammoth remains.
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robert klein
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News Link • Philosophy: Conservatism
A Republic vs A Democracy
05/04/2010
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Uncommon Sense
Do Americans still share the values of our founders? Do Americans know the difference between a republic and a democracy?
As our nation is in the midst of the Obama transformation we are on the verge of losing control of the government that the fo
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Dave Johannes
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News Link • General Opinion
Mayor Bloomberg gives his 25 cents
5/05/2010
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www.vanversive.net
Time to add New York City Mayor Bloomberg to the list of McCarthyites. In the wake of the failed Times Square bombing which authorities have already arrested a Pakistani man named Faisal Shahzad, however that didn’t stop Mr Bloomberg from giving his
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Jason Van Gilder
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News Link • Police State
Zannas sock county with $500,000 claim
05-04-2010
The notice, filed by attorney Vicki A. R. Lopez of the Chandler-based law firm of Marc J. Victor, PC, claims that supervisors, as well as other county officials including County Manager Ron Walker, caused the
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Ernest Hancock
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