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Date Sent: 2011-04-03
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Monday, April 4, 2011 |
Exclusive Breaking News - "Adam vs The Man" daily on Russia Today - Jim Rogers on Price Inflation
Exclusive Breaking News - "Adam vs The Man" daily on Russia Today -- Jim Rogers on Price Inflation, the Promise of Commodities and America's Continued Decline -- The U.S. Government Must Go! -- Obama review of federal rulebook leaves some skeptical he'll deliver, others nervous he will -- Japan crisis spurs survival planning by U.S. Mormons -- Night Vision Tech Tangles Troops in Afghanistan
-- Tweaking the climate to save it: Who decides? -- Obama Set To Launch Re-Election Bid, AP Sources Say -- Can a Country Get 90 Percent of Its Power From Renewables?
-- Music Industry Will Force Licenses on Amazon Cloud Player — or Else
-- ‘Paranoia Meter’: HBGary’s Plot to Find the Pentagon’s Next WikiLeaker
-- More customers exposed as big data breach grows -- Genetically modified cows produce 'human' milk -- Button Pushing or Abdication: Which? - by Carl Watner -- Rep. Paul planning hearing on Fed foreign lending -- Atlas Shrugged: The Documentary -- In St. Louis, a protest sign meets government arrogance -- Reconsidering the Goldstone Report on Israel and war crimes -- Chinese artist Ai Weiwei arrested in latest government crackdown -- ANOTHER NAIL IN THE MAN-MADE GLOBAL WARMING COFFIN: NASA admits all previous warming trends caused b -- "Atlas Shrugged" the Movie, pt. 1 - New Trailer Release -- Ode to Monsanto -- Why Americans Should “Cair” About the Growing Enemy Within -- Unanswered Questions In Libya -- LIBYA AND THE U.S. CONSTITUTION -- Pooling and Servicing Agreement violations and a new wrinkle in the foreclosure crisis! -- 'Climate Change': the new Eugenics -- Noam Chomsky on the Possible Split of Lybia into Two Regions -- Foreclosure-Gate: The 60 Minutes Whitewash -- Foreclosure-Gate: Uh, About Those Non-Securitized Securitized Mortgages.... --
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Jim Rogers on Price Inflation, the Promise of Commodities and America's Continued Decline
04-03-2011
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Anthony Wile via LewRockwell.com
There is some overheating and inflation, which they are wisely trying to cool " especially in urban, coastal real estate. They have huge reserves so will suffer less than others in any coming downturn.
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News Link • Government
The U.S. Government Must Go!
04-03-2011
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Michael S. Rozeff via LewRockwell.com
A chorus of U.S. and international officials keeps chanting that "Gaddafi must go" because, they keep repeating, he has lost legitimacy.
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News Link • Government
Obama review of federal rulebook leaves some skeptical he'll deliver, others nervous he will
04-03-2011
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AP
In a city that loves to argue over what next to add to the government's already fat rulebook, there's a big push to rethink what's already there.
All across town, agencies are holding hearings, scouring specs, setting up websites and assembling pl
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News Link • Food
Japan crisis spurs survival planning by U.S. Mormons
04-03-2011
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Reuters
Emergency planning and the long-term storage of food, water and medical supplies are central practices by the 14 million worldwide members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
The tradition stems from doctrine - "If ye are prepared
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News Link • Afghanistan
Night Vision Tech Tangles Troops in Afghanistan
04-03-2011
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David Axe via WIRED.com
Patrol in eastern Afghanistan’s Baraki Barak district on March 27 highlighted an important technological gap between U.S. forces and their Afghan partners that will only grow more noticeable as the Americans hand off responsibility.
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News Link • Environment
Tweaking the climate to save it: Who decides?
04-03-2011
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AP
The unknown risks of "geoengineering" " in this case, tweaking Earth's climate by dimming the skies " left many uneasy. If we could experiment with the atmosphere and literally play God, it's very tempting to a scientist," said earth scientist Richar
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama Set To Launch Re-Election Bid, AP Sources Say
04-03-2011
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AP
Democratic officials familiar with the president's plans said Saturday that Obama intends to file papers as early as this coming week with the Federal Election Commission to launch his 2012 re-election campaign. He also will announce his candidacy to
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News Link • Energy
Can a Country Get 90 Percent of Its Power From Renewables?
04-03-2011
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Michael Kanellos via WIRED.com
Renewable energy is often intermittent and unreliable, but with the right storage technology, it can become a substitute for baseline power.
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News Link • Entertainment: Music
Music Industry Will Force Licenses on Amazon Cloud Player " or Else
04-03-2011
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Jacqui Cheng via WIRED.com
Amazon’s decision to launch its new Cloud Player without securing additional music licenses has been described as a “bold move” by many observers. It takes serious guts for Amazon to simply declare that it doesn’t need licenses
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News Link • Government
‘Paranoia Meter’: HBGary’s Plot to Find the Pentagon’s Next WikiLeaker
04-03-2011
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Spencer Ackerman via WIRED.com
Most (in)famous for proposing a wide-ranging plan to discredit the defenders of WikiLeaks, the security company HBGary Federal recently pitched the Pentagon’s premiere research branch on a “Paranoia Meter” to hunt down the next Bradley Manning.
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News Link • Internet
More customers exposed as big data breach grows
04-03-2011
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Reuters
The names and e-mails of customers of Citigroup Inc and other large U.S. companies, as well as College Board students, were exposed in a massive and growing data breach after a computer hacker penetrated online marketer Epsilon.
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News Link • Agriculture
Genetically modified cows produce 'human' milk
04-03-2011
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Daily Telegraph
The scientists have successfully introduced human genes into 300 dairy cows to produce milk with the same properties as human breast milk.
Human milk contains high quantities of key nutrients that can help to boost the immune system of babies and
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News Link • Philosophy: Anarchism
Button Pushing or Abdication: Which? - by Carl Watner
04-03-2011
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Wendy McElroy
LeFevre urged his readers to suppose that they had a button before them. The button was to be wired in such a manner that when it was pushed it would do away with all vestiges of government:
And let us suppose... that all persons who are thus occu
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Rep. Paul planning hearing on Fed foreign lending
04-03-2011
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Reuters
"I was surprised and deeply disturbed ... to learn the staggering amount of money that went to foreign banks. These lending activities provided no benefit to American taxpayers, the American economy, or even directly to American banks," Paul said.
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News Link • Philosophy of Liberty
Atlas Shrugged: The Documentary
04-03-2011
Every blog, every comment section, every forum where Atlas Shrugged is being discussed is being blanketed by postings in opposition to this movie :) ... Just as when she first released the book. And sales are continuing to climb!
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News Link • Eminent Domain
In St. Louis, a protest sign meets government arrogance
04-03-2011
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Washington Post
Roos responded by painting on the side of one of his buildings a large mural " a slash through a red circle containing the words “End Eminent Domain Abuse.” The government demanded he seek a permit for it. He did. Then they denied the permit.
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News Link • Palestine -- Israel
Reconsidering the Goldstone Report on Israel and war crimes
04-03-2011
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Washington Post
The allegations of intentionality by Israel were based on the deaths of and injuries to civilians in situations where our fact-finding mission had no evidence on which to draw any other reasonable conclusion. While the investigations published by the
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News Link • China
Chinese artist Ai Weiwei arrested in latest government crackdown
04-03-2011
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Washington Post
Ai Weiwei, one of China’s most prominent artists and an outspoken critic of the communist regime, was taken from Beijing’s airport by security agents Sunday as he was about to board a flight to Hong Kong. Police later raided his studio.
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News Link • Environment
ANOTHER NAIL IN THE MAN-MADE GLOBAL WARMING COFFIN: NASA admits all previous warming trends caused b
04-03-2011
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Terrence Aym
Under mounting pressure from scientists that reject the politically popularized man-made global warming and climate models"the Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) theory"the American space agency NASA has admitted that all past warming trends were dri
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Unanswered Questions In Libya
04-03-2011
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Free Patriot Press
Bloomberg reports, the Libyan Transitional National Council “created a new national oil company to replace the corporation controlled by leader Muammar Qaddafi whose assets were frozen by the United Nations Security Council... and designated the
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News Link • Constitution
LIBYA AND THE U.S. CONSTITUTION
04-03-2011
The attack on Libya, without just cause, is but the latest violation of our Constitution. Unfortunately, the People remain ignorant of the last ten words of the 1st Amendment which secures the Right that can end it all. Dare we exercise it?
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Bob Schulz
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News Link • Housing
Pooling and Servicing Agreement violations and a new wrinkle in the foreclosure crisis!
04-03-2011
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The Hallmark Abstract Sentinel
The foreclosure crisis and "Pooling and Servicing Agreement" (PSA) violations
On March 31st The Hallmark Abstract Sentinel published an article that discussed the upcoming 60 Minutes story (airing tonight) on the foreclosure crisis, and the pot
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News Link • New World Order
'Climate Change': the new Eugenics
04-03-2011
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blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news
“A massive campaign must be launched to restore a high-quality environment in North America and to de-develop the United States. . . . Resources and energy must be diverted from frivolous and wasteful uses in overdeveloped countries to filling...
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News Link • Obama Administration
Noam Chomsky on the Possible Split of Lybia into Two Regions
04-03-2011
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EconomicPolicyJournal.com
What Washington seeks is what Bush announced: control, or at least dependable clients. US and British internal documents stress that “the virus of nationalism” is their greatest fear, not just in the Middle East but everywhere.
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News Link • Housing
Foreclosure-Gate: The 60 Minutes Whitewash
04-03-2011
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Ritholtz.com
But they are missing the bigger picture here: Reckless disregard for property rights and the rule of law. And exactly where are all of my Libertarian friends on this . . . ?
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News Link • Housing
Foreclosure-Gate: Uh, About Those Non-Securitized Securitized Mortgages....
04-03-2011
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Market-ticker.org
Permanently enjoined. As in "can never foreclose." Not "dismissed without prejudice" (e.g. "come back and file again with proper paperwork") but rather you blew it, it's not fixable, and you're done.
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News Link • Housing
Foreclosure-Gate: Alabama Judge Accepts New York Trust Theory
04-03-2011
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NakedCapitalism.com/
The ruling in favor of the borrower endorses an argument we have made since last year on this blog, that the pooling and servicing agreement stipulated a specific set of transfers be undertaken to convey the borrower note (the IOU) to the securitizat
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News Link • Obama Administration
Mission Creep: Western military advisers become visible in Benghazi
04-03-2011
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independent.co.uk/news
Military and diplomatic operatives from the US and Western Europe " usually described as experts, consultants and advisers " turned up in the rebel capital, Benghazi. These include UK personnel, among them a former Royal Navy officer who...
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News Link • Japan - Earthquake Tsunami Radiation
Chemical, sawdust, newspaper mix used to plug leak at Fukushima nuclear plant
04-03-2011
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CNN.com/
Workers on Sunday poured a chemical compound mixed with sawdust and newspaper into a crack at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power facility that's been a conduit for highly radioactive water leaking into the Pacific Ocean...
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News Link • Housing
Phoenix Housing Market: Empty houses taking toll on Valley
04-03-2011
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AZcentral.com
Overbuilding during the housing boom, record foreclosures during the subsequent crash and a significant drop in population growth have led to more than 100,000 vacant homes across the region, five times what was once considered normal.
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Want a Passport? Better Find Your Circumcision Records!
04-03-2011
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LewRockwell.com
I don’t know if my mother received pre-natal care, although I do have the name of the doctor who delivered me (also deceased). Circumcision? Well, I don’t recall the details. Does the State Department plan to inspect my...
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News Link • Obama Administration
Glenn Greenwald: Obama's new view of his own war powers
04-03-2011
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Salon.com
That claim -- that the President and he alone possesses all powers relating to war under the "Commander-in-Chief" clause of Article II -- became the cornerstone of Bush's "ideology of lawlessness."
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News Link • Japan - Earthquake Tsunami Radiation
Unlearned lessons from Chernobyl and Fukushima
04-03-2011
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LAtimes.com
Does anyone still read Schumacher's "Small Is Beautiful"? It came out nearly 40 years ago, but it might as well have been written last year for its relevance today. Its central thesis is that we have allowed economics to overtake philosophy...
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News Link • Gold and Silver
The Lesson Precious Metals Investors Can Learn From Japan
04-03-2011
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Seeking Alpha
It feels a little callous writing about Japan with respect to precious metals after the country suffered such a terrible tragedy. However, I think it’s worth discussing because there’s a lesson in it for all of us. In fact, I think the moral could be
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News Link • Science
Sunday science: Asteroid on a collision course with the earth! (Video)
04-03-2011
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The Political Commentator
Not really but this chart gives the potentially hazardous asteroids known of today (PHA) that the earth may one day have to encounter!
When we look up into the sky we see some of the planets some of the time, the moon, the sun and if the sky is cl
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News Link • Israel - Palestine
Israel mulls building island off Gaza
03-31-2011
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http://weeklyintercept.blogspot.com/2011/04/israel
A plan to build an artificial island off the Gaza Strip coast is being considered by the Israeli government, Israeli Transport Minister Yisrael Katz said.
Plans would include building an airport and sea port on the island, the British newspaper Th
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News Link • United Nations
ANOTHER VICTORY AGAINST THE GLOBALISTS: 34, NO 36, SENATORS SAY NO TO UN CHILD TREATY!
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www.varight.com
Another victory against the globalists - Senator DeMint's anti-UNCRC amendment had enough co-sponsors to defeat it. UNCRC - the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child - is a pernicious treaty with far-reaching effects if the US ratifies it.
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News Link • Japan - Earthquake Tsunami Radiation
Japan recruiting nuclear workers for up to $5,000 per day
04-02-2011
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www.rawstory.com
What would you do for $2,500 a day? How about $5,000 a day? Do you have "a passport, a family willing to let you go", and a "willingness to to work in a radioactive zone"?
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News Link • TAXES: State
2011 Federal Aid Set to Overwhelm State General Funds
04-02-2011
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thepelicanpost.org
New research indicates 2011 will be the first year that federal aid becomes the largest component of state revenues. Already 27 states, including Louisiana, rely on federal aid as their primary source of funding, but the report’s author describes...
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News Link • Japan - Earthquake Tsunami Radiation
Assessing The Fukushima Radiation Danger "Near And Far"
04-02-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
The NYT has compiled a useful visual summary of the current assessment of the Fukushima radiation, distributed by either air, soil, water and food, compiled through the work of the International Atomic Energy Agency and others.
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News Link • Corruption
To Understand American Fascism
04-02-2011
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LewRockwell.com
If you think America's corporate management is paying protection money to Congress, you do not understand economic cause and effect. Corporate management is the Mob. It operates in terms of a system in which Congress serves as...
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News Link • Japan - Earthquake Tsunami Radiation
Stephen Lendman: Japan's Apocalypse
04-02-2011
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Rense.com
At issue is "how to clean up areas that have been heavily contaminated by radioactivity," stopping short of suggesting they're dead zones that may affect all northern Japan, an area comparable to Pennsylvania, potentially making it uninhabitable.
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Astronomers: Comet Elenin may produce greatest meteor showers in history
04-02-2011
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Terrence Aym
The unusual Comet Elenin is expected to pass within 21 million miles of Earth on October 16, 2011 and speeding by at more than 85,000 mph"so fast it could travel from Earth to the Moon in less than five hours. Discovered by amateur Russian astronomer
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News Link • Economic Stimulus
Unemployment rate at 8.8 good or bad for the country?
04-02-2011
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The Political Commentator
The road to an 8.8% unemployment is paved with unintended consequences!
Yes, a drop of .01% in the unemployment rate reported yesterday cannot be termed a bad thing. Anytime unemployed and struggling U.S. workers find a job it is only good.
The
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News Link • Politics
The Blood Is On Your Hands, “Pastor” Jones
04-02-2011
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www.drscoundrels.com
Thou shalt not lie.
That’s one of those commandments that “Pastor” Jones says he believes in.
Why in the world would you go about burning someone’s holy book? Knowing as you know what a simple cartoon did? Knowing how the world would react to y
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News Link • Drug War
Montana lawmaker's speech perpetuates boozy image
04-02-2011
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AP
A lawmaker's speech railing against drunken driving reform _ mocked mercilessly by political opponents _ is no laughing matter to activists who say it perpetuates the state's dangerous boozy culture.
Bar owner Alan Hale said in a speech on the Hou
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Legislature approves balanced budget with deep cuts to education, health care
04-02-2011
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Capitol Media Services
State lawmakers late Friday gave final approval to what will be the first truly balanced budget in half a decade.
The party-line approval of the package of spending and policy bills came over the often heated objections of Democrats. Senate Minori
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