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Date Sent: 2011-04-18
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Monday, April 18, 2011 AM edition |
Debt ceiling vote nears, pressures House GOP freshmen -- The Federal Reserve Broke The Law
My Experience at the OKC Bombing Recovery Effort - by OKC Fireman Justin Cottrell -- U.S. secretly backed Syrian opposition groups, cables released by WikiLeaks show -- Assad pledge fails to quell Syria anger; troops fire -- Gold hits record on inflation fear; silver at 31-year high -- Congress will raise debt limit: Geithner -- Iran: Computer worm could have caused huge damage -- Alarming New Fukushima Reports -- WI Gov. Scott Walker To Declare Financial Martial Law Over Local
Governments -- Saudi Slashes Oil Output: Say Hello to $200 A Barrel Oil
-- Biometric Police Glasses With A Capability Beyond One Mile
-- Our Brave New World: China Integrating Biometrics and Geographical
Mapping -- Nevada SB 412 to make felons out of natural
health practitioners -- University Of Texas Invests Nearly $1 Billion
In Gold -- Big Brother Loves You: Obama administration unveils online
ID system -- Strange: Japan nuclear commission fails to send experts to
Fukushima -- Jim Grant On
Inflation: "There Will Be A Lot Of It Suddenly" -- Prospects for a
Palestinian Spring
AZ: FEE awards
ceremony at the Freedom Library, Yuma, April 26th.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
As debt ceiling vote nears, the pressure’s on House Republican freshmen
04-18-2011
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Washington Post
They ran against debt. They swore and swore again they’d cut up the nation’s credit card. Now the 87 freshmen House Republicans are facing intense pressure that they must vote to allow the federal government to go even deeper into debt.
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Foreclsoure-Gate: The Federal Reserve Broke The Law
04-17-2011
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Market-ticker.org
The appropriate legal standard cannot be "well, most of the time the people who we kick out of their houses weren't paying." It has to be in each and every case we documented that the person who we kicked out of their house wasn't paying...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Conspiracies
My Experience at the OKC Bombing Recovery Effort - by OKC Fireman Justin Cottrell
04-18-2011
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April 19, 1995 is a day of infamy in the hearts of many American people, myself included. It was on this day the image I had of the United States as a nation, which upheld the principles of the founding fathers began to fade away.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
U.S. secretly backed Syrian opposition groups, cables released by WikiLeaks show
04-18-2011
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Washington Post
The State Department has secretly financed Syrian political opposition groups and related projects, including a satellite TV channel that beams anti-government programming into the country, according to previously undisclosed diplomatic cables.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Assad pledge fails to quell Syria anger; troops fire
04-18-2011
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Reuters
Syrian security forces opened fire on protesters at a funeral, and an announcement President al-Assad would lift 48-years of emergency rule failed to quell fury on the streets. Security forces killed 3 mourners when they opened fire on a funeral for
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Gold hits record on inflation fear; silver at 31-year high
04-18-2011
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Reuters
Inflation accelerated in Asia and Europe in March. The lingering euro zone debt crisis also helped lift gold prices. Technical analysis indicated that gold may target $1,518 an ounce, said Reuters market analyst Wang Tao.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Congress will raise debt limit: Geithner
04-18-2011
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Reuters
Congressional Republicans have assured President Obama they would not hold the economy hostage over raising the debt ceiling, Treasury Secretary Geithner said.
But Republicans appearing on television news shows insisted they would not support an in
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Iran: Computer worm could have caused huge damage
04-18-2011
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AP
A senior Iranian military official involved in investigating a mysterious computer worm targeting Iranian nuclear facilities and other industrial sites said Saturday the malware could have caused large-scale accidents and loss of life.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Events: Arizona
Forum on the Middle East and anti-Semitism
04-28-2011
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Phoenix Objectivists
For their last meeting in April, Phoenix Objectivists will host a forum tonight on the Middle East and the growth of anti-Semitism on university campuses with an emphasis on answering accusations against the state of Israel.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • World News
Dalai Lama urges restraint in Tibet monastery crisis
04-17-2011
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The Raw Story
The Dalai Lama has urged restraint in a standoff with security forces at a Tibetan Buddhist monastery in China, warning of "catastrophic consequences" if the situation deteriorates.
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News Link • Oil Spill - Gulf of Mexico
Mystery illnesses plague Louisiana oil spill crews
04-17-2011
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The Raw Story
One year later, the 32-year-old said she still suffers from a range of debilitating health problems, including racing heartbeat, vomiting, dizziness, ear infections, swollen throat, poor sight in one eye and memory loss.
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News Link • Robots and Artificial Intelligence
‘Robot journalist’ out-writes human sports reporter
04-17-2011
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Kase Wickman via The Raw Story
Somewhere in the greater Washington D.C. area, there's a sportswriter for GWSports.com who likely wants to crawl under his or her desk and not come out for a while, lest they be mocked for being bested by a robot.
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News Link • World News
Jonathan on course to win Nigerian presidency
04-17-2011
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The Raw Story
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan was on course to win the country's elections on Monday, as official results showed him with a huge lead, but sporadic riots broke out in the north over rigging fears.
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News Link • Government
Palin, Breitbart booed at tea party event
04-17-2011
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David Edwards via The Raw Story
Not everyone at Saturday’s tea party gathering in Madison, Wisconsin were fans of Andrew Breitbart and Sarah Palin.
The two popular conservatives had to talk over the boos of about 3,000 pro-labor supporters at the Capitol.
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News Link • Obama Administration
CA GOP official sent picture of Obama as chimp, didn’t think it was racist
04-17-2011
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Kase Wickman via The Raw Story
Marilyn Davenport, an elected member of the Orange County Republican Party central committee, said she doesn't think a photoshopped image she sent of President Barack Obama's superimposed on a chimpanzee's body is racist.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
OECD study: US ‘high on prisons, low on pensions’
04-17-2011
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David Ferguson via The Raw Story
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has released a report stating that the United States has the highest percentage of incarcerated citizens in the developed world and ranks ninth from the bottom in social spending.
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News Link • Martial Law
WI Gov. Scott Walker To Declare Financial Martial Law Over Local Governments
04-17-2011
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blogs.forbes.com
The Walker legislation would empower the governor to insert a financial manager of his choosing into local government with the ability to cancel union contracts, push aside duly elected local government officials and school board members and...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Energy
Saudi Slashes Oil Output: Say Hello to $200 A Barrel Oil
04-17-2011
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CNBC.com
Saudi Arabia's oil minister said on Sunday the kingdom had slashed output by 800,000 barrels per day in March due to oversupply, sending the strongest signal yet that OPEC will not act to quell soaring prices.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Jim Quinn: Years Of The Modern
04-17-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
The debt, fraud and lack of financial regulation that catalyzed the near collapse of the worldwide financial system in 2008, 63 years after the end of the last Fourth Turning, have not been purged from the system.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Researchers Succeed in Quantum Teleportation of Light Waves
04-17-2011
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Rebecca Boyle via PopSci.com
In a real-life use of Schrödinger's theoretical paradoxical cat, researchers report that they were able to quickly transfer a complex set of quantum information while preserving its integrity.
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News Link • Media: Radio
How to Milk a Goat In the Crosshairs!
04-17-2011
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Farm Wars
A goat can keep you alive and healthy! Barb shares her secrets on how to process goat’s milk the right way!
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Japan - Earthquake Tsunami Radiation
Did Radiation Accumulation Force Morgan Stanley To Abandon Tokyo Office?
04-17-2011
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Reuters.com
A Morgan Stanley property fund failed to make $3.3 billion in debt payments by a deadline on Friday, handing over the keys to a central Tokyo office building to Blackstone and other investors, the largest repayment failure of its kind in Japan
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News Link • Surveillance
Biometric Police Glasses With A Capability Beyond One Mile
04-17-2011
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Telegraph.co.uk/news/
It works by wirelessly sending the recorded images to a database that can compare up to 46,000 points on a face, known as biometric data, and determine if they’ve got a criminal history or an outstanding arrest warrant.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Surveillance
Our Brave New World: China Integrating Biometrics and Geographical Mapping
04-17-2011
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fool.com/
Local ID card systems can be integrated with police GIS tools to keep track of the estimated 210 million "internal immigrants" in the country. That system is being tested in Shenzhen with an eye toward expanding it to 660 cities across the country.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Corruption
Bill Black: Fiat Justitia Ruat Caelum (Let Justice be Done, Though the Heavens Fall)
04-17-2011
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NakedCapitalism.com/
Nietzsche argued that the ubermensch (generally translated as “Superman”) transcended the normal rules. The elites claim impunity from normal rules on the basis of their purported superiority and because they claim that they are so important...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Nevada SB 412 to make felons out of natural health practitioners
04-17-2011
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ActivistPost.com/
Here’s another piece of the steamroller being perpetrated by those God-fearing, bible quoting, God is moving on my heart, Republicans. Another state under siege by Republican legislators as they do their part in the nationwide assault on natural...
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News Link • Precious Metals
University Of Texas Invests Nearly $1 Billion In Gold
04-17-2011
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BusinessInsider.com/
The University of Texas has added $500 million to its already sizable gold investment in 2010, partially due to the influence of hedge funder Kyle Bass, according to Bloomberg.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Surveillance
Big Brother Loves You: Obama administration unveils online ID system
04-17-2011
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Dailymail.co.uk/
Unveiling the scheme, he insisted the cyber ID was not a Big Brother plan by the government to snoop on web users.
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News Link • Japan - Earthquake Tsunami Radiation
Strange: Japan nuclear commission fails to send experts to Fukushima
04-17-2011
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mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news
The Nuclear Safety Commission of Japan has failed to send designated experts to Fukushima Prefecture to look into the crisis at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant even though a national disaster-preparedness plan...
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Interview With Paul Craig Roberts: 'US To Recoup Libya Oil From China'
04-17-2011
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InformationClearingHouse.info
In my opinion, what is going on is comparable to what the US and Britain did to Japan in the 1930s. When they cut Japan off from oil, from rubber, from minerals like ore; that was the origin of World War II in the pacific.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Survey Shows Americans Want Their Cake and Eat It Too
04-17-2011
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GlobalEconomicAnalysis.blogspot.com
Americans make it clear they want to keep common federal income tax deductions, regardless of whether the proposed elimination of those deductions is framed as part of a plan to lower the overall income tax rate or as a way to reduce...
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Jim Grant On Inflation: "There Will Be A Lot Of It Suddenly"
04-17-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
These are monetary events that have never before been seen, and indeed, never before imagined...The Fed's policies are certainly great for one class of society: the speculative classes.... We have socialized risk, we have privatized gains...
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News Link • Counter-Economics
Wind Fall-Out
05-10-2011
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Friends of Lana'i - vimeo.com
Friends of Lāna‘i (friendsoflanai.org) commissioned this video to help explain how a proposed 400 megawatt industrial wind power plant will impact the people and environment of the small Hawaiian island of Lāna‘i. The project could consume
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Another Paul to join Ron and Rand in Congress? Robert Paul ponders Hutchisons' senate seat.
04-16-2011
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www.officialwire.com
Robert Paul, a family doctor, says he has thought about running for the Senate seat currently held by Kay Bailey Hutchison, when her term expires in January 2013. "I am very happy as a physician, but have a lot of concern about the debt,"
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News Link • Militia
Militia's rapture, Bible scriptures simply don't jibe
04-16-2011
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Anchorage Daily News
The godfather of Alaska's growing militia movement is Commander-Pastor Norman Olson of Nikiski. Olson is pastor of the Freedom Baptist Church and a commander in the Alaska Citizens Militia. Formerly, he founded the Michigan Militia infamous because
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
Will Conservatives Make ‘Atlas Shrugged’ A Hit?
04-16-2011
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blogs.wsj.com
Independently produced and distributed by entrepreneur John Aglialoro, chairman of UM Holdings Inc, the film “Atlas Shrugged, Part 1″ was budgeted under $10 million and includes a cast of little-known actors
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The Talking Bears and inflation! Let them do the splainin! (Video)
04-16-2011
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The Political Commentator, Michael Haltman
The Talking Bears: Finally a source you can actually trust for the truth about inflation!
Inflation stated ex-food and ex-energy is a statistic that only works for corporate CEO's and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke!
Every month the rele
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
US Families Has Been Broke Down, Tore Down, Beat Down, Busted By This Economy
04-16-2011
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BlackListedNews.com/
#2 Only 66.8% of American men had a job last year. That was the lowest level that has ever been recorded in U.S. history.
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News Link • Internet
Homeland Security to Expand Control Over The Internet
04-16-2011
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federalnewsradio.com/
Under a White House plan, the Homeland Security Department will have far-reaching oversight over all civilian agency computer networks.
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News Link • Currencies
The War on Money
04-16-2011
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dailyreckoning.com/
To begin with, the US Government now employs cash-sniffing dogs at most international airports. If you are carrying more than $10,000 in cash and don’t declare it to the Government when coming in or out of the US, your cash will be seized.
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News Link • Internet
Big Brother's Love: White House Proposes A Universal Credential For Web
04-16-2011
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npr.org/blogs
So what does this mean in real life? What's envisioned by Obama is an end to passwords, a system in which a consumer will have a piece of software on a smartsphone or some kind of card or token, which they can swipe on their computers to log...
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News Link • Internet
Big Brother's Love: Obama's "Trusted Identities" Internet ID Slowly Unveiled
04-16-2011
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blogs.wsj.com
The administration wants people to have digital credentials that could be stored in something like an app or on a USB thumb drive. Plenty of businesses already require employees to use these sorts of tools to log on to secure email...
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News Link • Surveillance
Brazilian Cops Biometric Eyeglasses Pick Guilty Faces Out of a Crowd
04-16-2011
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popsci.com/
At distances up to 50 yards, the glasses can reportedly scan 400 faces per second, comparing 46,000 biometric points on a person’s face against a database of terrorists and other criminals. If a match is made it is indicated by a red light...
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News Link • Entertainment: Games
Today Poker, Tomorrow Alternative Media?
4-15-2011
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StopTheLie.com
On Friday April 15th, the U.S. government showed again just how easily it can completely “shut down” any website it wants. By seizing a domain name, the Department of “Justice” can cut the public off from access to products, services or information i
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News Link • Agriculture
Macedonian Volunteers Plant 3M Trees
04-16-2011
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arclein
There is no better feeling than when you plant a tree and after some time come and see it growing," Macedonian opera singer and UNESCO Artist for Peace Boris Trajanov told reporters.
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News Link • Energy
Oldest US Nuclear Plant :)
04-16-2011
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arclein
uses a GE Mark I Boiling Water reactor identical to those that lost power at Japan's Fukushima plant in the March 11 earthquake and then was struck by a tsunami that knocked out its backup generators, causing reactor cooling functions to fail.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Doctor John Ioannides Confronts Medical Science
04-16-2011
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arclein
nnidis first became aware of the problems in medical science as a young researcher, when he realized that even for well-researched diseases, doctors tended to make their treatment decisions based on intuition and basic guidelines rather than solid re
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News Link • History
Jack the Ripper ID'ed
04-16-2011
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arclein
In 2002, the retired Bedfordshire policeman " who’d had a long-running interest in the Ripper case " decided to sift through the evidence, see what could be discounted, and determine what facts remained.
"When I looked through it, I thought, '
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