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Date Sent: 2011-04-25
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Monday, April 25, 2011 AM edition |
US carries out first Libyan drone strike -- Ray McGovern: Surprise, Surprise! Iraq War Was About Oil
WikiLeaks discloses new details on whereabouts of al-Qaeda leaders on 9/11 -- Risks Aside, Ticket-Fixing Has Persisted for Decades -- ElBaradei suggests war crimes probe of Bush team -- Obama on Bradley Manning: “He broke the law” --
Big Test Looms for British Space Plane Concept -- Virgin Galactic's
Tourist Spaceship Makes Longest Test Flight Yet -- NY case underscores
Wi-Fi privacy dangers -- Japan To Censor, Take Down "Irresponsible" Fukushima Information And Reporting -- Darren Wolfe of Focus on Peace Speaks at Fedstock II -- Jim Rogers issues an urgent warning on silver -- Royal Wedding Is Drawing a Yawn From Many Americans -- Have The Tea Parties Been Neoconned? -- Bikers nabbed by undercover cops’ hidden cameras -- "Atlas Shrugged" box office success stuns liberal Hollywood -- Private US firm aims for manned Mars landing in 10-20 years
-- Jim Grant: Bernanke Unilaterally Added A 3rd Fed Mandate That
Guarantees QE3 -- St. Louis Airport tornado damage caught on cameras
AZ: Individual Liberty and the
Freedom Philosophy awards ceremony at the
Freedom Library, Yuma, tomorrow, April 26th.
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
US carries out first drone strike in Libya: Pentagon
04-24-2011
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http://www.prisonplanet.com/
The United States carried out its first drone strike in Libya on Saturday, the Pentagon said, two days after approving the use of pilotless aircraft to aid rebels fighting Moamer Kadhafi’s forces.
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News Link • Events: Arizona
15th ANNUAL RECOGNITION AND SCHOLARSHIP AWARD CEREMONY
04-14-2011
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www.freedomlibrary.org
Tuesday, April 26, Yuma, AZ, help our youth and others understand the real meaning of Individual Liberty and the Freedom Philosophy in order to make a better, more peaceful world for all of us.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • 911 / World Trade Center
WikiLeaks discloses new details on whereabouts of al-Qaeda leaders on 9/11
04-24-2011
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Washington Post
On Sept. 11, 2001, the core of al-Qaeda was concentrated in a single city: Karachi, Pakistan.
At a hospital, the accused mastermind of the bombing of the USS Cole was recovering from a tonsillectomy. Nearby, the alleged organizer of the 2002 b
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Risks Aside, Ticket-Fixing Has Persisted for Decades
04-24-2011
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NY Times
In 1951, police officers in Manhattan’s 20th Precinct were investigated for sabotaging paperwork to kill traffic citations, as favors for politicians. In the middle of the inquiry, the ledger recording all the precinct’s summonses mysteriously disapp
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Bush Administration
ElBaradei suggests war crimes probe of Bush team
04-24-2011
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AP
Former chief U.N. nuclear inspector Mohamed ElBaradei suggests in a new memoir that Bush administration officials should face international criminal investigation for the "shame of a needless war" in Iraq. Freer to speak now than he was as an interna
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama on Bradley Manning: “He broke the law”
04-24-2011
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Rawstory
Following a fundraising speech, President Obama was asked about the case of whistleblower Bradley Manning. He responded, “I can’t conduct diplomacy on an open source. That’s not how…the world works. If you’re in the military, and " I have to abide by
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Big Test Looms for British Space Plane Concept
04-24-2011
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Space
Private funding is lined up to see it through all stages of development, culminating with the start of commercial operations in 2020. That funding is contingent on Skylon hitting some key milestones along the way, and a big one looms just a few month
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Bill would limit right to jury trial for DUI defendants
04-24-2011
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AP
A bill approved by the Arizona Legislature would end the flat right that misdemeanor DUI defendants now have under state law to a jury trial for a first offense.
The legislator who sponsored the bill called the jury change reasonable because other
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Virgin Galactic's Tourist Spaceship Makes Longest Test Flight Yet
04-24-2011
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Space
The suborbital Virgin Galactic spacecraft, called SpaceShipTwo, maneuvered through the skies over the Mojave Air and Space Port during the milestone test. Scaled Composites is overseeing flight testing of SpaceShipTwo and its WhiteKnightTwo carrier p
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Death
Sony chairman credited with developing CDs dies
04-24-2011
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AP
As a young man, aspiring opera singer Norio Ohga wrote to Sony to complain about the quality of its tape recorders. The company promptly recruited the man whose love of music would shape the development of the compact disc and transform the Japanese
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Media: Print
The Reality of Campus Anti-Semitism
04-24-2011
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Commentary Magazine
Should the federal government intervene when an American university permits its campus to become unsafe for Jews? When the prevailing atmosphere on campus is hatred against Israel and all things associated with the Jewish people?
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
NY case underscores Wi-Fi privacy dangers
04-24-2011
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AP
Lying on his floor with assault weapons trained on him, shouts of "pedophile!" and "pornographer!" stinging like his fresh cuts and bruises, the homeowner didn't need long to figure the reason for the early morning wake-up call from a swarm of federa
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Archaeology
Little Bits of Junk
04-24-2011
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The Libertarian Enterprise
Watching an old National Geographic or Nova documentary on NetFlix the other day I was reminded all over again of how badly the English language has been mangled to achieve the objectives of collectivism.
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Cathy Smith
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News Link • Japan - Earthquake Tsunami Radiation
Japan To Censor, Take Down "Irresponsible" Fukushima Information And Reporting
04-24-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
It has very disturbing implications about the "real" truth behind the Fukushima devastation, because outright censorship, Cease and Desist notices, and preemptive takedowns are always the purvey of the "last resort" crew.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
The New Democratic Strategy Is To Make Businesses Hate Republicans
04-24-2011
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BusinessInsider.com/
“We have the leverage here,” said Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.). “There are obviously divisions in the GOP among the leaders and the people pursuing their dumb notions of linking [cuts] to the debt vote.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Foreclosure-Gate Arizona: GOP Troika Kills Homeowners, and America's Hopes
04-24-2011
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Market-ticker.org
The Senate passed this bill, by the way, 28-2. But after it passed something odd happened - it disappeared!
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Darren Wolfe of Focus on Peace Speaks at Fedstock II
04-23-2011
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The International Libertarian
It was a great honor to be allowed to address the liberty minded activists at Fedstock II in Philadelphia, PA. On April 23, 2011 we again hit the streets to educate everyone of the dangers of central banking. A big thanks to the organizers, the other
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Darren Wolfe
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News Link • Tea Party
The Problem with the Tea Party
04-23-2011
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EconomicPolicyJournal.com
In this video, delivered at a Mises Institute seminar, Jacob Heubert examines where we are on the road to liberty, the different directions that can be taken to get to a more libertarian society and what will work, and not work, to advance liberty.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Events: America
Washington Post launches news aggregation site
04-24-2011
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http://www.rawstory.com/
WASHINGTON " The Washington Post Co. launched a news aggregation website on Wednesday called "Trove" that allow readers to customize the news around their interests.
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader 3
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Each Time You are Exposed to this Machine, You Boost Your Risk of Cancer
04-24-2011
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http://www.healthsprout.com/
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) claims that backscatter scans are safe. But how do medical professionals personally feel about it?
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader 3
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
‘What on Earth’ Probes Mysteries of Crop Circles
04-24-2011
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http://movies.nytimes.com/
A cheery, chummy documentary about the pastoral patterns inaccurately described as crop circles, Suzanne Taylor’s “What on Earth?” musters a gaggle of enthusiasts to dish on the phenomenon.
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Jim Rogers issues an urgent warning on silver
04-24-2011
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http://www.thedailycrux.com/
Jim Rogers commented on the recent move by the University of Texas to take delivery of $1 billion in gold, saying the decision is long overdue, and has only occurred because everyone else is now buying...
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News Link • Politics
Ed Griffin Discusses the Left / Right Paradigm
04-24-2011
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StopTheLie.com
Ed Griffin discusses how the Establishment creates the illusion of choice (“Left” VS “Right”) to trick voters into “endorsing” their predatory system. In short: When we vote for Establishment-endorsed candidates ("Left" or "Right"), we lose.
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Joe Plummer
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News Link • World News
Royal Wedding Is Drawing a Yawn From Many Americans
04-24-2011
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http://www.nytimes.com/
How fascinated are Americans with Prince William’s and Kate Middleton’s nuptials next week? According to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll, not very.
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News Link • World News
Royal wedding invitation to crown prince of Bahrain draws criticism
04-24-2011
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/
Salman bin Hamad al-Khalifa is standing by his government's crackdown " and is due at Friday's royal wedding
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Expatriate Your Wallet
04-24-2011
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http://www.lewrockwell.com/
If everything you own is held in your own name in your own country, then you are not merely exposed, you are vulnerable absolutely, to whatever decisions the government might make about how you should behave.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
GoldBRICs
04-24-2011
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http://www.lewrockwell.com/
Back in the era of World War II, a goldbrick was a slacker in the military. He was the guy who always seemed to be able to find a reason not to pull his own weight, as the phrase went.
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News Link • Future Predictions
How Will the Empire End?
04-24-2011
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http://www.lewrockwell.com/
Most Americans would very likely deny that their government is a global empire, horribly destructive to national security, liberty, and wealth.
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News Link • Tea Party
Have The Tea Parties Been Neoconned?
04-24-2011
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http://chuckbaldwinlive.com/
Back in February of 2010, I appeared on Neil Cavuto’s FOXBusiness TV show to talk about the emergence and effectiveness of America’s Tea Party movement.
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News Link • Surveillance
Bikers nabbed by undercover cops’ hidden cameras
04-24-2011
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Echo
MOTORCYCLE cops are using covert video cameras as part of a new drive to reduce biker deaths across Essex.
Essex Police motorcyclists, using unmarked machines fitted with cameras, have caught more than 50 speeding riders in just three weekends.
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Justin Tyme
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
"Atlas Shrugged" box office success stuns liberal Hollywood
04-24-2011
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washingtontimes.com
“Atlas Shrugged” remains one of the best-selling books of all time. More than 7,000,000 copies of the tome have been sold since it was first published. It is currently #4 on the Amazon best-seller list.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Philosophy of Liberty
Good Friday - Jesus Exposes the State for What It is Not
04-23-2011
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Becky Chandler
Ever since Jesus exposed the great truth that the Emperor has no clothes, the State has struggled to establish the basis of its legitimacy....
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Becky Chandler
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Private US firm aims for manned Mars landing in 10-20 years
04-24-2011
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RawStory.com
"We'll probably put a first man in space in about three years," Elon Musk told the Wall Street Journal Saturday. "We're going all the way to Mars, I think... best case 10 years, worst case 15 to 20 years."
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Martial Law
Martial Law in the Land of Confusion!
04-24-2011
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InfoWars.com/
Our money is being purposely destroyed every single day so that this corrupt government can monetize the massive debt it created. The Federal Reserve is a most willing accomplice in this scheme to bankrupt our society.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Pity The Fool: Californians support tax hikes to help close budget gap
04-24-2011
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LAtimes.com
California voters agree with Gov. Jerry Brown that tax increases should help close the state budget deficit, and they want to vote on his plan for raising the revenue, according to a new Times/USC Dornsife poll.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Jim Grant: Bernanke Unilaterally Added A 3rd Fed Mandate That Guarantees QE3
04-24-2011
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BusinessInsider.com/
To its congressionally directed dual mandate -- stable prices and full employment -- the Bernanke Fed has unilaterally added a third. It has undertaken to make the markets rise.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Surveillance
Police beating of Las Vegas man caught on tape
04-24-2011
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http://www.lvrj.com/
When Mitchell Crooks checked out of the county jail last month and checked into a Las Vegas hospital, the 36-year-old videographer knew he had a fight on his hands.
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News Link • China
China Proposes To Cut Two Thirds Of Its $3 Trillion In USD Holdings
04-24-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
China appears to be getting ready to cut its USD reserves by roughly the amount of dollars that was recently printed by the Fed, or $2 trillion or so. And to think that this comes just as news that the Japanese pension fund will soon be dumping...
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News Link • Surveillance
You Want It, You Need It, And You Just Have To Have It: Biometrics
04-24-2011
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scoop.co.nz/
Consumer readiness for opt-in biometric-based identity programmes is underscored by recent findings in the Unisys Security Index research which found that consumers worldwide are willing to sacrifice some level of privacy to increase safety...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Weather News - Links - History
St. Louis Airport tornado damage caught on cameras
04-24-2011
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KSDK TV
Lambert-St. Louis International Airport officials released surveillance video that shows debris swirling inside the airport as workers and passengers run to take cover when the EF2 tornado hit. The damage to the Lambert Airport is estimated to be in
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Arizona's middle class further out of reach for young
04-24-2011
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AZcentral.com
"A lot of people in that age group came into adulthood with a lot of confidence," she said. "They thought they could get a good education and - even if they had to charge it with student loans - they were going to come out making...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Currencies
The Dollar And Gold: A 20-Year Perspective
04-24-2011
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BusinessInsider.com/
The reason for gold's ability to do well in any market lies in its recent role as a haven from concerns about the dollar, inflation and shocks in Europe, the Middle East and Japan.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Internet
Facebook: The Madmen Are Cashing In On Your Desires
04-24-2011
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sltrib.com/
“Facebook is reading my profile, my interests, the people and pages I am ‘friends’ with and targeting me,” Morrison said. “It’s brilliant social media, but it’s absolutely creepy.”
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