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Date Sent: 2010-08-16
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Sunday, August 15, 2010 |
US Secret Assault on Terrorism Widens on 2 Continents & 12 Countries -- US trust of media dwindling
Janet Tavakoli: How to Thwart the Assassins of the American Dream -- FHA Insanity: Insured Manhattan Condos Only Need 3.5% Down Payments -- Will Quantitative Easing By The Federal Reserve Unleash Economic Hell? -- FDA to Destroy Organic Salmon: Genetic engineering for "Useless Eaters"
-- Obama takes his daughter for a swim in the toxic waters of the Gulf
of Mexico -- Obama's Ramadan Blessing - by Joseph Farah -- What Matt Simmons said about the gulf oil spill before his death (six interviews) -- CameraFRAUD Turns Two! -- Can Stores Require an ID When Paying by Credit Card? -- Pakistan flood crisis raises fears of country's collapse -- Iraq’s Top General: U.S. Troops Should Stay Until 2020 -- Malaysian State Plans to Integrate Gold/Silver Coins Into Monetary System -- SB 1070, Ron Paul and the destruction of America -- Unregulated Greed has Destroyed the Capitalist System -- Air Strike on Iran Nuclear Assets Possible Now -- US Troops Will Stay in Iraq If Asked -- Buffett Vs Gross, Or Inflation Vs Deflation - Who Is Right? -- India eyes Google and Skype in security crackdown -- Hanoi clamps down on Internet cafes -- Smile! Aerial images being used to enforce laws -- Iran prepares to launch first nuclear reactor at Bushehr -- Social Security is 75: Scary Facts About America's Pension Crisis -- Ireland's Economic Collapse: 1 out of 3 workers under 30 are unemployed -- Illegal immigrants flocking to 3 states to obtain identification
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News Link • Military
US Secret Assault on Terrorism Widens on Two Continents & 12 Countries
08-15-2010
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NYtimes.com/
Virtually none of the newly aggressive steps undertaken by the United States government have been publicly acknowledged.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
US trust of media dwindling
08-14-2010
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AFP
No more than one-quarter of Americans trusts the news media, but the greatest confidence in the struggling newspaper industry ironically comes from young people.
The Gallup poll found that 25% of Americans felt a "great deal" or "quite a lot" of co
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Housing
FHA Insanity: Insured Manhattan Condos Only Need 3.5% Down Payments
08-15-2010
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Bloomberg.com
“It’s a government seal of approval,” said Gollinger, a director at the Developments Group of New York-based brokerage Prudential Douglas Elliman Real Estate. “We need as many sales tools as we can have these days, and it’s one more tool.”
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
David Rosenberg WSJ Interview: "The First Recession Never Ended"
08-15-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
If you are looking for a succinct outline of where the economy stands, then watch David Rosenberg for 2 1/2 minutes starting at 5:33.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Bill of Rights
True Confessions (on Liberty and the Republic)
08-15-2010
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OfTwoMinds.com/blog
We spend so much time and effort telling other people what to do, we no longer do anything ourselves. We’re like the Soviet Union on a deadly cocktail of cappuccino and crystal meth"half as much fun, twice as dangerous, and moving a whole lot faster.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Will Quantitative Easing By The Federal Reserve Unleash Economic Hell?
08-15-2010
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InfoWars.com/ & The Economic Collapse
Marc Faber, the author of “The Gloom, Boom and Doom Report”, recently warned CNBC that all of this intervention by the Federal Reserve is going to create a “final crisis” that will destroy the U.S. financial system….
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Food
FDA to Destroy Organic Salmon: Genetic engineering for "Useless Eaters"
08-15-2010
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LAtimes.com
It reaches an 8-pound market weight in 18 months instead of 36. That's accomplished by inserting part of a gene from an eel-like creature called the ocean pout into the growth gene of a Chinook salmon, then injecting the blended genetic material...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama takes his daughter for a swim in the toxic waters of the Gulf of Mexico
08-15-2010
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news.yahoo.com/s/ap
With a quick family trip to the Gulf Coast, President Barack Obama is offering his personal assurance that the region is a safe, clean vacation destination despite the massive oil spill..
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama's Ramadan Blessing by Joseph Farah
08-15-2010
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World Net Daily
"I'm not going to sit still while this pretender of an American president lies about the historical record and misrepresents evil as good." (GO JOE!)
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Gold and Silver
When burying money on your property, don't let anyone else know about it, ok?!
08-15-2010
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Eastern Arizona Courier
An Arizona man noticed the money he had kept in a bucket in a secret location on his property had been replaced with rocks. A note with GPS coordinates of other burial sites was also missing.
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Reported by:
Chip Saunders
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News Link • Oil Spill - Gulf of Mexico
What Matt Simmons said about the gulf oil spill before his death (six interviews)
08/14/2010
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The Real News Now
Matthew Roy Simmons, (April 7, 1943 " August 8, 2010) one of the worlds foremost experts in the field of oil and founder of the ocean energy institute died last week under mysterious circumstances. Simmons perspective was not well liked among BP offi
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The Real News
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News Link • Activism
CameraFRAUD Turns Two!
08-15-2010
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CameraFRAUD
After 165 events, 499 articles (this one is, appropriately, #500), 15,000 WordPress comments, countless media interviews, and millions and millions of website visitors, it’s important to realize that our strength is not in numbers, but as individuals
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David Alpha
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News Link • Privacy Rights
Can Stores Require an ID When Paying by Credit Card?
08-14-2010
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PrivacyRights.org
Surprise... the answer is actually no! "Merchants may ask a customer for identification, but in most situations, a merchant may not condition acceptance of a Visa or MasterCard credit card upon the customer presenting identification. In other words
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David Alpha
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News Link • Obama Administration
Calling ObamaCare's Bluff (video)
8/10/10
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John Birch Society
Art Thompson, CEO of The John Birch Society. He reads from a doctor's letter to the editor pointing out that he treats patients on Canada's infamous waiting lists and asks where will the Toronto patients go once Americans are placed onto waiting li
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Anonymous Watchman
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News Link • Politics
Cow farts, road dust and the Environmental Protection Agency
08-14-10
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http://www.ppjg.wordpress.com
The EPA is now considering new regulations on....DUST. That's right! Dust is some kind of big threat to us what with it being a "new and unusual occurrence" (not) and of course now they are looking at the agricultural community and what fines, tax
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Marti Oakley
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News Link • World News
Pakistan flood crisis raises fears of country's collapse
08-14-2010
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Saeed Shah and Jonathan S. Landay via McClatchy
The humanitarian and economic disaster caused by the worst floods in Pakistan's history could spark political unrest that could destabilize the government, dealing a major blow to the Obama administration's efforts to fight violent Islamic extremism.
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Reported by:
Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
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News Link • Military
Iraq’s Top General: U.S. Troops Should Stay Until 2020
08-14-2010
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Paul Joseph Watson via Prison Planet.com
Obama’s “withdrawal” is nothing more than a publicity stunt, thousands of U.S. troops and contractors will remain in Iraq as an occupying force for years if not decades
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Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
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News Link • Conspiracies
Jesse Ventura in the Infowars.com Studio
08-14-2010
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Jesse Ventura via Infowars.com
Former Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura visits the Infowars.com headquarters in Austin, Texas.
See more exclusive video from his latest meeting with Alex Jones coming soon… only at Infowars.com and PrisonPlanet.tv.
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Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
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News Link • Currencies
Malaysian State Plans to Integrate Gold/Silver Coins Into Monetary System
08-13-2010
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Financial Times
The state government of Kelantan (Malaysia's most muslim region) plans to begin circulation of the new coins by using them to meet payroll for the state's employees.
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Reported by:
Chip Saunders
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Pastor acquitted in Interstate 8 checkpoint incident
08-14-2010
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James Gilbert via YumaSun.com
A Baptist pastor who claimed he was beaten by law enforcement officers at an interstate checkpoint was acquitted Friday of two misdemeanor charges related to the incident.
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Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Unregulated Greed has Destroyed the Capitalist System
08-14-2010
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arclein
But this is a different story. To get back to deregulation, nothing has worked for the consumer since deregulation. Deregulation permitted corporations to impose their c
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robert klein
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News Link • Iran
Air Strike on Iran Nuclear Assets Possible Now
08-14-2010
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arclein
News that Russia will load nuclear fuel rods into an Iranian reactor has touched off a countdown to a point of no return, a deadline by which Israel would have to launch an attack on Iran's Bushehr reactor
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robert klein
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Feature Article • Secession
America has fallen... and can't get up!
David McElroy
The United States of America, aka the District of Criminals, is a gigantic fraud we have been falsely taught to revere as a lawful represenmtative and accountable taxing authority wielding great powers of police and military forces to achieve goals w
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News Link • Food
Researchers Propose Serving Free Cholesterol Drugs With Fast Food Meals
08-14-2010
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Clay Dillow via PopSci
A group of researchers at Imperial College London recently cross-referenced a couple of studies on heart health and have made an interesting recommendation to fast food outlets: rather than fries, each order should come with a free statin drug.
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Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
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News Link • Currencies
Heavyweights - Buffett Vs Gross, Or Inflation Vs Deflation - Who Is Right?
08-14-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
Using the above logic, it would signify that, unlike Buffett, Gross is now more primed for deflation than ever. In the great inflation-deflation debate, this will be the primetime heavyweight cagematch to watch.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama's Word Is Not Worth Spit: US Troops Will Stay in Iraq If Asked
08-14-2010
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1.voanews.com/english/news
"Why do you want to run the risk of taking away this good friend of the Iraqi people, and this sort of stabilizing, independent, neutral capability in the form of the United States military, when you're not yet sure all the Iraqi wounds have...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • World News
India eyes Google and Skype in security crackdown
08-14-2010
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AP
India may ask Google and Skype for greater access to encrypted information once it resolves security concerns with BlackBerrys, which are now under threat of a ban, according to a government document and two people familiar with the discussions.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Communications
Questions and answers about BlackBerry objections
08-14-2010
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AFP
The corporate version of the BlackBerry is too hard to eavesdrop on. The e-mails and messages are encrypted while in transit, and even the company that makes BlackBerry, doesn't have the keys to decrypt them. Designed to keep corporate and government
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Military
WikiLeaks' Collateral Murder: U.S. Soldier Ethan McCord's Eyewitness Story
08-14-2010
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MediaSanctuary via YouTube.com
U.S. Soldier Ethan McCord speaking about the civilian massacre documented in WikiLeaks's April 2010 video disclosure of Apache helicopter footage of a New Baghdad attack that took place in 2007, allegedly released by PFC Brad Manning.
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Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
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News Link • Internet
Hanoi clamps down on Internet cafes
08-14-2010
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AFP
Authorities in the Vietnamese capital are clamping down on Internet cafes in what they say is a bid to address online gaming addiction and inappropriate content. Internet shops within 220 yards of schools must shut down. In addition, "technical measu
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
Smile! Aerial images being used to enforce laws
08-14-2010
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AP
On New York's Long Island, it's used to prevent drownings. In Greece, it's a tool to help solve a financial crisis. Municipalities update property assessment rolls and other government data with it. Some in law enforcement use reconnaissance of crime
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Iran
Iran prepares to launch first nuclear reactor at Bushehr
08-14-2010
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Telegraph.co.uk/
The country’s atomic energy chief, Ali Akbar Salehi, said they were preparing to transfer the fuel inside the Bushehr power station in southern Iran next week before transferring it to the reactor core.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
John Williams: Times That Try Our Souls
08-14-2010
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theenergyreport.com/
We're beginning to see the data break. Some unusual factors have been at work. I expect an accelerating pace of downturn in the next couple of months. The numbers will turn sharply worse.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Social Security
Social Security is 75: Scary Facts About America's Pension Crisis
08-14-2010
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Businessinsider.com/
As the first of the 80 million Baby Boomers have begun to retire, it has become increasingly apparent that the United States is facing a pension crisis of unprecedented magnitude. State and local government pension plans are woefully underfunded...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - International
Ireland's Economic Collapse: 1 out of 3 workers under 30 are unemployed
08-14-2010
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Guardian.co.uk/
Ireland has the fourth highest unemployment in the EU (13.4%), with 432,500 people on the dole; one in three of the working population under 30 is unemployed. And unemployment would be even worse were it not for the return of emigration.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • r3VOLution Continues
CAN LEGAL ANTI-CHRISTIAN DISCRIMINATION HAPPEN HERE? MORE REASON FOR FOLLOWERS OF CHRIST TO JOIN TH
08-14-10
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www.varight.com
These accounts illustrate how important it is for evangelicals to join the Ron Paul/libertarian cause and help restore the Republic!
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Sandy Sanders
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The Only Things That Matter… And No One Talks About
08-14-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
The fact of the matter is that the US economy, on a structural basis, is broken. Starting in the early ‘70s, we outsourced our manufacturing and began shifting to a services economy. We also outsourced our wealth to Asia, OPEC, and Wall Street.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Florida " Much Worse Problems Than the Oil Spill
08-14-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
Florida is ground zero for Baby Boomer demographics. With 600 seniors for every 1,000 workers now, and the number trending inexorably higher, soon every employed person in the state will essentially have to adopt one senior to care for out of his...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Immigration
Illegal immigrants flocking to 3 states to obtain identification
08-14-2010
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AZcentral.com
Three states - Washington, New Mexico and Utah - allow illegal immigrants to get licenses because their laws do not require proof of citizenship or legal residency. An AP analysis found that those states have seen a surge in immigrants...
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