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Date Sent: 2010-05-15
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Saturday, May 15, 2010 |
Will Great Britain Ditch the EU? -- Kerry-Lieberman Climate Proposal a Disaster for Climate
The beginning of a U.S. currency crisis and hyperinflation -- Good Money After Bad - by Bill Bonner -- Arizona, States' Rights and Immigration - by Szandor Blestman -- Bankers jailed, sued as Iceland seeks scapegoats for crisis -- College grads protest JPM CEO as commencement speaker
-- Different government agencies honor, sue company at same time! --
Timothy McVeigh's Death Row Cell Mate Exposes OK City Bombing -- FAKE
ID SITES Reviewed -- Gold Could Explode To $3,000 As Confidence In Currencies Collapses --
Arizona tourism officials brace for boycott -- Project aims to measure
gravitational waves with giant lasers, free-falling cubes of gold --
Halliburton's Return: Oil Spill Puts Symbol Of Cronyism And Corruption
Back In The News -- Volcker: The Euro Is On The Brink Of Extinction -- Video of Police officer shooting unarmed cooperating suspect
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News Link • Economy - International
Will Great Britain Ditch the EU?
05-14-2010
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EconomicPolicyJournal.com
This is now playing out before our eyes. Club Med governments have built up €7 trillion sovereign debt under the cover of monetary union, which shut down the warning signals for borrowers and creditors alike. We are now near " or beyond...
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Environment
Kerry-Lieberman Climate Proposal a Disaster for Climate
05-14-2010
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Common Dreams
Climate bill will not solve the problems of global warming and continues pandering to the fossil fuel industry -- including expanded offshore oil drilling -- that created the problems in the first place.
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Reported by:
Donna Hancock
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Feature Article • Economy - International
Good Money After Bad
Bill Bonner
Where do bad debts go after they die? On Monday, investors seem to have convinced themselves that they just disappeared…like Amelia Earhart or TARP funds. But by Tuesday, they began to worry about ghosts.
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News Link • Internet
Google Says It Mistakenly Collected Data on Web Usage
05-14-2010
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Wall Street Journal
Google Inc. said an internal investigation has discovered that the roving vans the company uses to create its online mapping services were mistakenly collecting data about websites people were visiting over wireless networks.
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Obama Administration
U.S. Approval of Killing of Cleric Causes Unease (a U.S. Citizen)
05-14-2010
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nytimes.com
Obama’s decision to authorize the killing by the Central Intelligence Agency of a terrorism suspect who is an American citizen has set off a debate over the legal and political limits of drone missile strikes, a mainstay of the campaign agains
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Immigration
Radical Immigration Reform Rally
05-14-2010
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www.drscoundrels.com
An amazing and scary Docu-Vid by sECULARsTUPIDEST.com: "There was an immigration protest in Downtown Atlanta in May which revealed some shocking discoveries. The speakers spoke almost entirely in Spanish, but a few speakers spoke in English and cal
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Rich Hilts
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News Link • Economy - International
President Nicolas Sarkozy 'threatened to pull France out of euro'
05-14-2010
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www.telegraph.co.uk
President Nicolas Sarkozy slammed his fist on the table and threatened to pull France out of the euro at a meeting of European leaders deciding Greece's aid package last Friday, according to Spain's El Pais newspaper.
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
Wall Street 2 Review from Cannes
05-14-2010
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www.showbiz411.com
Oliver Stone’s “Wall Street” sequel, subtitled Money Never sleeps, is a hit. It’s a formula Hollywood movie in the great sense. For the first time in a long time, the formula works.
There are many good things to say about Money Never Sleeps. T
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Food
US to Aggressively Confront Genetically Modified Food Critics
05-14-2010
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Blacklistednews.com/ & CounterPunch.org
Even the U.S. Senate is getting into the act, promoting, even mandating GM technology to the developing world. Senate Bill 384, The Global Food Security Act, shall include research on biotechnological advances...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Karl Denninger: Ten Things For 2010
05-14-2010
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Market-ticker.denninger.net/
An evaluation of who you can trust and who you can't is, in coming years, likely to be the most-important decision you will make, and you will make it time and time again. Being wrong in the coming decade may throw you into rank destitution...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
David Rosenberg Part 1: "Why The Depression Is Ongoing"
05-14-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
But the depression is ongoing and the reason we say that is because real personal income, excluding handouts from the government, has barely budged. In fact, real organic personal income is nearly $500 billion lower now than it was at the peak...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Oil spill could go on for years, experts say
05-14-2010
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RawStory.com
The pressure at 5,000 feet undersea -- where the well site is located -- is so high, that containment efforts are likely often to fail. At 5,000 feet underwater, blocking elements have to be able to hold even with pressures off 40,000 pounds per sq..
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Graphic Photographs of the Devastation in the Gulf of Mexico
05-14-2010
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boston.com/bigpicture/
In the three weeks since the April 20th explosion and sinking of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, and the start of the subsequent massive (and ongoing) oil leak, many attempts have been made to contain and control...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The beginning of a U.S. currency crisis and hyperinflation
05/14/2010
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godlikeproductions.com
The beginning of a U.S. currency crisis and hyperinflation. Become a member of NIA for free at http://inflation.us Ron Paul looking good!
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Reported by:
Phennommennonn GLP
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News Link • Philosophy: Conservatism
UN Agenda 21 & the New World Order Pt 2
05/14/2010
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Uncommon Sense
Here is a continuation of the trail from across the internet on UN Agenda 21 and the forces that seem to be driving this initiative. The UN Agenda appears to be the evolution of the principles and ideas of the Progressive and eugenics movements of th
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Dave Johannes
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News Link • Immigration
Arizona, States´ Rights and Immigration by Szandor Blestman
05-14-2010
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SzandorBlestman.com
"It seems to me that perhaps there is more to this immigration problem than meets the eye."
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Economy - International
Bankers jailed, sued as Iceland seeks culprits for crisis
05-14-2010
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AFP
More than a year and a half after Iceland's major banks failed, all but sinking the country's economy, police have begun rounding up a number of top bankers while other former executives and owners face a two-billion-dollar lawsuit.
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Trouser Chili
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News Link • Humor
Joe Biden email: Why Elena Kagan Makes Biden Smile
05-14-2010
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Mondo Frazier
Joe Biden’s smiling today and here’s his email explaining why.
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
College grads protest JPM CEO as commencement speaker
05-14-2010
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Daily Orange
Even college students know what the banksters are doing to this country. Instead of JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon, their choice for commencement speaker was Simon Johnson, author of “Jamie Dimon Is the Most Dangerous Man in America.”
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Trouser Chili
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News Link • Contractors, Government & Military
Different government agencies honor, sue company at same time!
05-14-2010
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Associated Press
Two government offices - one in Washington and the other in Austin - issued news releases Thursday, one noting a Houston-based company has been nominated for a prestigious national award, the other stating the same company is being charged with fraud
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Reported by:
Leon Felkins
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News Link • Conspiracies
Timothy McVeigh's Death Row Cell Mate Exposes OK City Bombing
05-14-2010
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Sharlene Holt, Musicians for Freedom
Now America finally gets to meet the real Oklahoma City Bomber, and hear his shocking account of his crime, as reported by McVeigh’s fellow death row inmate, David Paul Hammer....
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Reported by:
Sharlene Holt
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News Link • Entertainment: Music
Ray Stevens,...always current,...sings about illegal immigration.
05-14-2010
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YouTube
This man and his music has been around a long time. Even when you don't agree with him, he's entertaining.
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Reported by:
Chip Saunders
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News Link • Immigration
FAKE ID SITES Reviewed (Gee, I wonder if these sites are monitored???)
05-14-2010
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www.underground-review.com
USE AT YOUR OWN RISK
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Entertainment: Games
Online Game: Failed Obama Coup 2011 is a Political Fantasy Wonderland
05-14-2010
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Mondo Frazier
Test your knowledge of current events, keep up on the news (both real and imagined) or play one of the fastest-growing online games, 2011: Obama’s Failed Coup. It’s all at the US of Earth website.
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Reported by:
Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Gold Could Explode To $3,000 As Confidence In Currencies Collapses
05-14-2010
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Prison Planet
European investors panic buying bullion as crumbling faith in fiat money leads to unlimited demand for precious metal
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Arizona tourism officials brace for boycott
05-14-2010
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USA Today
Arizona's tourism officials are growing increasingly concerned at the prospect of huge hotel and convention dollar losses because of fallout from the state's new immigration law. Phoenix alone faces lost business worth about $90 million over the next
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Humor
Late Night Joke Dump: May 14, 2010
05-14-2010
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Mondo Frazier
The best political jokes/commentary is almost always late at night. Here’s some of the best from the past week.
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Science
Project aims to measure gravitational waves with giant lasers, free-falling cubes of gold
05-14-2010
In Largest Science Experiment Ever, Three Spacecraft Will Swap Laser Fire Across 3 Million Miles
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Science
Limitless, Cheap Chips Made Out of DNA Could Replace Silicon
05-14-2010
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PopSci
Rather than running computers and electrical circuits on electricity, light-sensitive DNA switches could be used to move signals through a device at much higher speeds.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
$3 Microscope Plugs into Cell Phones
05-14-2010
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Technology Review
Inexpensive, lightweight device provides basic medical diagnostics and images.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
Halliburton's Return: Oil Spill Puts Symbol Of Cronyism And Corruption Back In The News
05-11-2010
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Dan Froomkin, Huffington Post
. . . when investigators determine the precise cause of the oil-rig explosion that threatens to poison huge swaths of the Gulf of Mexico, what they'll conclude is that something went catastrophically wrong with the work done by Halliburton.
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Microbial Continuous Oil Production
05-14-2010
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arclein
Rather than destroying the cyanobacteria, the group has ingeniously reengineered their genetics, producing mutant strains that continuously secrete fatty acids through their cell walls.
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robert klein
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News Link • Energy
What Went Wrong on Oil Platform?
05-14-2010
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arclein
New disclosures Wednesday revealed a complex cascade of deep-sea equipment failures and procedural problems in the oil rig explosion and massive spill that is still fouling the waters of the Gulf
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robert klein
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News Link • Archaeology
Hominid Human Interbreeding
05-14-2010
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arclein
They also noticed a spike in genetic diversity in Indo-Pacific peoples, dating to around 40,000 years ago. This time, it's unlikely the diversity came from H. sapiens getting it on with Neanderthals, who never travelled that far south. That leaves a
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robert klein
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News Link • History
Easter Island Reconsideration
05-14-2010
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arclein
Heyerdahl and subsequent researchers believed that statues he found lying on their backs and faces near the roads were abandoned during transportation by the ancient Polynesians.
But his theory has been completely rejected by the team led by Manch
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robert klein
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News Link • Humor
Lewis Black: Glenn Beck Has Nazi Tourettes
05-14-2010
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Afterdowningstreet.org/
Mother Teresa had a mustache. Hitler had a mustache. Mother Teresa is Hitler - Lewis Black
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Currencies
Volcker: The Euro Is On The Brink Of Extinction
05-14-2010
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Businessinsider.com/
The Eurozone may be forced to undergo severe economic and political adjustments in order to manage a currency system they're stuck with. Many Europeans are suddenly realizing that they had no idea what they were agreeing to when they joined...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Buffalo billboard petitions president for "a freakin' job"
05-14-2010
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news.Yahoo.com/s/ynews
"I need a freakin' job." That's the message President Obama saw as he arrived in Buffalo, N.Y., this afternoon for an event talking up the administration's success in creating new jobs.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Activism
Free Talk Live video Validation of Calendar girl Catherine Bleish
05-10-10
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www.LCLReport.com
Catherine Bleish talks about how the Feds have purchased the local police using grants. She also talks about the very scary creation of Fusion centers.
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Tarrin Lupo
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News Link • Activism
Free State Project Wyoming? We get the details from Boston T. Party
05-10-10
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www.LCLReport.com
We interview author Kenneth W. Royce aka "Boston T. Party" about a sister Free State Project in Wyoming. Boston explains the differences between the New Hampshire FSP and the Wyoming. We also find out what the Dirt Time event is all about.
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Tarrin Lupo
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News Link • Heroes
UT to award Gore honorary doctorate today
05-14-2010
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Knoxnews.com
Former vice president and Nobel Peace Prize winner Al Gore will receive an honorary doctorate from the University of Tennessee this morning.
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Glenn Jacobs
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
The Federal Fat Police
05/14/2010
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godlikeproductions.com
States receiving federal grants provided for in the bill would be required to annually track the Body Mass Index of all children ages 2 through 18. The grant-receiving states would be required to mandate that all health care providers in the state de
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Phennommennonn GLP
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Video of Police officer shooting unarmed cooperating suspect
05-13-2010
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ABC News (video)
A never-before-seen police dash cam video was shown in court today in the trial of an Ottawa Hills police officer accused of shooting and paralyzing a man during a traffic stop.Ottawa Hills, Ohio police officer shoots a motorcyclist in the back, with
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Powell Gammill
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