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Date Sent: 2011-04-28
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Thursday, April 28, 2011 AM edition |
Petraeus would helm an increasingly militarized CIA -- Syria sends army reinforcements into Deraa
Police Confront Broward Judge at Gunpoint -- Cop used excessive force in IHOP melee (video) -- US Banks Warn Obama on Soaring Debt -- Afghan officer opens fire, kills 9 Americans -- Lawmaker Attempts to Hide From Angry Taxpayers -- Satellite Navigation Snitching To Police When You Speed? -- Wal-Mart CEO: Consumers feeling greater pressure -- The Ownership Society Is Dead: Home Ownership Rate Drops to 1998 Level -- Reasonable Tyranny -- Gold Surges to Record on Outlook for Sagging Dollar, U.S. Rates -- Miss America Sexually Molested by TSA -- Amazing solar-powered fridge invented by British student -- Charting The Course To $7 Gas -- Apple Denies Tracking iPhone Users, Will Issue Software Update to Discontinue Tracking iPhone Users -- New
Triton Manned Submersible Sets Sights on the Deepest Point in the
Ocean, 36,000 Feet Down -- 53% Worry About Not Having Enough Money in
Retirement; Implications for Boomers -- Top Mexican Drug Lord: I Trafficked Cocaine For The U.S. Government -- FORECLOSURE DEFENSE SEMINAR FOR LAWYERS AND HOMEOWNERS -- Ron Paul: Why I Want To Be President
-- Ayn Rand & Libertarians Grossly Misunderstood -- EU Rigor Tested
As French Turn Against Immigration -- ‘Proud’ Trump takes credit for
Obama releasing birth certificate -- Talk show host Nicole Sandler
arrested at tea party Rep’s town hall
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Petraeus would helm an increasingly militarized CIA
04-27-2011
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Washington Post
CIA teams operate alongside U.S. special operations forces in conflict zones from Afghanistan to Yemen. The agency has also built up a substantial paramilitary capability of its own. But perhaps most significantly, the agency is in the midst of what
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Police Confront Broward Judge at Gunpoint
04-27-2011
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NBC News
hey all slowly went out through a side door. “She was putting the gun down. They yelled, ‘put the gun down! Put the gun down!’ Right there, the cop had his gun pointed at her.”
Judge Holmes, surrounded by deputies with guns drawn, slowly put the g
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Cop used excessive force in IHOP melee (video)
04-27-2011
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Atlanta Journal & Constitution, youtube
“It was just four girls, just a regular night out, going to get something to eat,” Cynthia Freeman said.
Freeman said she noticed two guys dressed as characters from the Star Wars trilogy.
“Wow, they got the helmet … they’ve got everything, wha
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
US Banks Warn Obama on Soaring Debt
04-27-2011
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Financial Times
A group of the largest US banks and fund managers stepped up the pressure on Congress and the Obama administration to reach a deal to increase the country’s debt limit, saying that even a short default could be devastating for the financial markets a
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News Link • Afghanistan
Afghan officer opens fire, kills 9 Americans
04-27-2011
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AP
Eight American troops and a U.S. contractor died Wednesday after an Afghan military pilot opened fire during a meeting at Kabul airport " the deadliest episode to date of an Afghan turning against his coalition partners, officials said.
The Afghan
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News Link • Weather News - Links - History
138 Large, Violent Tornadoes Devastate Ala., Miss., Ga., Tenn.
04-27-2011
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AP
Another devastating, deadly tornado outbreak that started in Mississippi Wednesday afternoon continues across the Southeast with more tornadoes touching down.
The tornadoes and severe thunderstorms have killed at least 72 people across the South o
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
DNA tests link US leprosy cases to armadillo
04-27-2011
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AP
With some genetic sleuthing, scientists have fingered a likely culprit in the spread of leprosy in the southern United States: the nine-banded armadillo.
DNA tests show a match in the leprosy strain between some patients and these prehistoric-look
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News Link • Legislative Mischief
Lawmaker Attempts to Hide From Angry Taxpayers
04-27-2011
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NBC News
Rep. Zeke Zalaski, a Democrat from Southington, has taken the legislative plates off his car because of complaints he gets about taxes when he fills up with gas, he told NBC Connecticut Wednesday.
He wants Gov. Dannel Malloy, also a Democrat, to r
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News Link • Surveillance
Satellite Navigation Snitching To Police When You Speed?
04-27-2011
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BlackListedNews.com/ & Market-Ticker.org
Dutch news outlet AD is reporting that such data captured by TomTom navigation devices has been purchased by the country's police force and is being used to determine where speed traps and cameras should be placed.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Wal-Mart CEO: Consumers feeling greater pressure
04-27-2011
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marketwatch.com
“Our customers are running out of money, buying smaller pack sizes and less discretionary items near the end of the month,” Duke said. “It shows greater pressure on consumers. Rising fuel price has been one of the factors that affect...
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News Link • Housing
The Ownership Society Is Dead: Home Ownership Rate Drops to 1998 Level
04-27-2011
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blogs.wsj.com/
Now, some industry watchers expect the rate to slip below 65%. Housing experts say each 1% decline in the home ownership rate represents the movement of one million households to rentals. Some people can’t buy homes, while others just don’t want to.
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Gold Surges to Record on Outlook for Sagging Dollar, U.S. Rates
04-27-2011
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http://www.bloomberg.com/
Gold futures rose to a record $1,530.30 an ounce on speculation that the Federal Reserve will be slow to raise U.S. borrowing costs, weakening the dollar and boosting the appeal of the metal as an alternative asset.
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News Link • Homeland Security
Miss America Sexually Molested by TSA
04-27-2011
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prisonplanet.com
In the video below, the former beauty queen who held the Miss America title in 2003, Susie Castillo, said a TSA “screener” fondled her vagina during an intrusive pat-down.
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News Link • Politics: Democratic Campaigns
*** Obama's Birth Certificate Debunked Already ***Proof***
04/28/2011
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godlikeproductions.com
Just read something from the Fox News site by a poster which is VERY interesting regarding this possible FAKE BC: “Hate to bring this up, but I just checked the official web site for Kapiolani Maternity & Gynecological Hospital and according to the i
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News Link • Inventions
Amazing solar-powered fridge invented by British student
04-27-2011
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Chris Brooke
"Her 'sustainable' fridge works through evaporation and can be used to keep perishable goods such as milk and meat cool for days."
"Without using any power, temperatures stay at around 6c."
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News Link • Surveillance
One Eye on the Future: Iris Scanners Are Coming
04-27-2011
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dailyfinance.com
The video has a slight delay, which creates a strange feeling of disconnection as you watch yourself watching yourself walking beneath it. If you are in the system, the monitor flashes green and welcomes you by name.
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Putin On NATO Trying to Kill Gadhafi: What, there was a trial?
04-27-2011
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kyivpost.com
"Now several officials are saying, 'Yes, we're trying to destroy Gadhafi.' But who allowed you to do this? What, there was a trial? Who gave themselves the right to sentence someone to death, regardless what kind of person he is?" Putin said.
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News Link • Energy
Charting The Course To $7 Gas
04-27-2011
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BusinessInsider.com/
With the tripling of the money supply, cold mathematics would imply that eventually prices will likewise triple " once the new money has made it out into the economy. Thus, $3.50 gas becomes $10.50 gas.
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News Link • Privacy Rights
Apple Denies Tracking iPhone Users, Will Issue Software Update to Discontinue Tracking iPhone Users
04-27-2011
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Dan Nosowitz via PopSci.com
In response to the hubbub surrounding the iPhone's unwanted tendency to transcribe your every move and remember it for years, Apple today issued a curious statement--mostly a blanket denial of wrongdoing
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
New Triton Manned Submersible Sets Sights on the Deepest Point in the Ocean, 36,000 Feet Down
04-27-2011
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Clay Dillow via PopSci.com
The last time an ocean submersible took a crew down to Challenger Deep, the deepest known point in the Mariana Trench (about 36,000 feet below the surface), it was 1960.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
53% Worry About Not Having Enough Money in Retirement; Implications for Boomers
04-27-2011
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GlobalEconomicAnalysis.blogspot.com
A majority of nonretired Americans do not think they will have enough money to live comfortably in retirement, up sharply from about a third who felt this way in 2002. Nonretired Americans now project that they will retire at age 66, up from age 60..
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News Link • Future Predictions
2020 Vision: A Look Forward To The Promises of a Truly Amazing Year
04-27-2011
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Clay Dillow via PopSci.com
In the year 2020, cars will fly, cities will power themselves with sunlight, biofuels, and minerals mined from the moon, computers will be more powerful than the human brain, and everything will be a touchscreen! Perhaps.
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News Link • Obama Administration
Petraeus and Panetta said to be up for new posts as part of national security shakeup
04-27-2011
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/
President Obama is expected this week to nominate Gen. David H. Petraeus to replace Leon Panetta as CIA director and to name Panetta as secretary of defense, U.S. officials said Wednesday.
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News Link • Internet
Facebook Facial Recognition Could Get Creepy
04-26-2011
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news.yahoo.com
Facial recognition may be just one more way for Facebook to push the visual part of the social graph (photos of us) toward being more public and far less private. Facebook has a history of asking for forgiveness after the fact...
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News Link • Corruption
Top Mexican Drug Lord: I Trafficked Cocaine For The U.S. Government
04-27-2011
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http://www.prisonplanet.com/
Jesus Vicente Zambada Niebla was “logistical coordinator” for narco-gang behind purchase of CIA torture jet that wrecked with four tons of cocaine.
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News Link • Events: Arizona
FORECLOSURE DEFENSE SEMINAR FOR LAWYERS AND HOMEOWNERS
04-27-2011
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livinglies.wordpress.com
FORECLOSURE DEFENSE SEMINAR FOR LAWYERS AND HOMEOWNERS THIS SATURDAY AND SUNDAY IN CHANDLER (HILTON) ARIZONA
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Ron Paul: Why I Want To Be President
04-27-2011
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http://www.prisonplanet.com/
Ron Paul is America’s leading voice for limited, constitutional government, low taxes, free markets, a return to sound monetary policies, and a sensible pro-America foreign policy.
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News Link • Philosophy: Libertarianism
Ayn Rand & Libertarians Grossly Misunderstood
04-27-2011
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http://dailybell.ch/
In my local paper a letter writer, apparently eager to besmirch Ayn Rand " which many have tried in vain " had this to say: "Rand's libertarianism has an underlying philosophy that says that if you are not particularly smart...
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News Link • Environment
Nuclear Danger Still Dwarfed by Coal
04-27-2011
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http://www.livescience.com/
TOKYO " One must accept a risk of radiation exposure when flying in and out of Narita International Airport, the busiest airport in Japan, just east of Tokyo, but perhaps not for the reason you are thinking.
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Paraguay: The Hidden Gem.
04-27-2011
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http://www.sovereignman.com/
Paraguay isn’t exactly ‘on the radar,’ so to speak. Most people who research living overseas usually end up in the hyped up places like Panama, Costa Rica, or even Ecuador.
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News Link • World News
EU Rigor Tested As French Turn Against Immigration
04-27-2011
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http://dailybell.ch/
France wants less integration . . . Eh bien, je jamais. The French government is demanding less European integration.
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News Link • Events: America
‘Proud’ Trump takes credit for Obama releasing birth certificate
04-27-2011
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http://www.rawstory.com/
Donald Trump took credit Wednesday as President Barack Obama released his long-form birth certificate.
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News Link • Tea Party
Talk show host Nicole Sandler arrested at tea party Rep’s town hall
04-27-2011
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http://www.rawstory.com/
At a town hall meeting last night in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., staged by Rep. Allen West (R-FL), liberal talk show host Nicole Sandler was taken out of the event hall and arrested on camera.
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News Link • Events: America
San Francisco may vote on banning male circumcision
04-27-2011
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http://www.rawstory.com/
A group opposed to male circumcision said on Tuesday they have collected more than enough signatures to qualify a proposal to ban the practice in San Francisco as a ballot measure for November elections.
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News Link • Events: America
Cop punches woman in the face at Atlanta IHOP
04-27-2011
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http://www.rawstory.com/
Talk about bad pancakes.
In the early hours of Sunday morning, Cynthia Freeman and an off-duty police officer got into a scuffle at an International House of Pancakes (IHOP) in Atlanta. What happened next was caught on tape, in a violent bit of f
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama Is Right, There Are More Important Issues Than His Birth Certificate
04-27-2011
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http://www.prisonplanet.com/
Barack Obama’s assertion today that there are more important things to worry about than the place of his birth is technically accurate.
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Ben Bernanke U.S Outlook and policy Press Conference 4-27-2011 (Full Video)
04-27-2011
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YouTube
(Publisher: The.... stress/warbling in his voice was very noticeable. Nervous tension can be attributed to many things on camera but it made me more,... concerned about the validity of his words)
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Bernanke Says Ending Bond-Buying Unlikely to Have Major Impact
04-27-2011
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http://www.bloomberg.com/
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said the end of the Fed’s $600 billion bond-buying program in June probably won’t have a “significant” effect on financial markets or the economy.
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News Link • Energy
A 100-Year Plan for Nuclear Waste
04-27-2011
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Kevin Bullis via TechnologyReview.com
An MIT study argues that keeping it in temporary storage for decades, rather than permanently burying it, has many benefits.
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News Link • Surveillance
Case study: How the USA PATRIOT Act can be used to access EU data
04-27-2011
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ZDNet
This is the third in a series of posts that examine the principles governing the transfer of data across borders between the European Union and the United States, and the effect that the USA PATRIOT Act has on businesses, citizens and governments out
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Hendershott, Arpaio's top aide, resigns amid internal probe
04-27-2011
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Arizona Republic
Munnell's memo contained a variety of allegations, including one in which Hendershott ordered deputies to write a search warrant for a conference room that county supervisors use for confidential meetings. When deputies refused to write the search wa
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News Link • Surveillance
Police Agencies Tap Technology to Appear Bigger
04-27-2011
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Officer.com
"We're leveraging the technology (networks of security cameras) that private industry already has," Schultz said, adding that up to 200 businesses participate. "It has really taken off."
Police agencies increasingly rely on controversial tech
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Phoenix Underwater Mortgages Show Housing’s Threat to Recovery
04-27-2011
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Bloomberg.com
In Phoenix, the problem is especially acute. Nearly 202,000 individuals are 50 percent or more in negative equity, according to a Corelogic Inc. analysis prepared at the request of Bloomberg News. More than one in every five Phoenix...
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Man Shows Joe Arpaio Constitution -- Then Gets Violently Tackled by His Goons (VIDEO)
04-27-2011
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Phoenix New Times
There's a video of a man showing Maricopa Co. Sheriff Joe Arpaio a copy of the Constitution as the sheriff [publicly] rants, raves, and pats himself on the back. Despite doing nothing thratening, the man promptly was tackled and led away by cops.
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News Link • Identity Theft
New Details in Case of Illegal Alaska Police Officer
04-27-2011
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Officer.com
A Mexico-born illegal immigrant working as a police officer in Alaska was caught only after the U.S. citizen whose identity he stole applied for a passport, authorities said Tuesday.
Rafael Espinoza, who has dual citizenship, lives outside of the
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News Link • Identity Theft
Officials: Alaska Officer an Illegal Immigrant
04-27-2011
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Officer.com
For years, the man known as Rafael Espinoza was widely respected as an exemplary police officer who was popular among his peers in Alaska's largest city.
All that ended last week when authorities discovered he was really Mexican national Rafael M
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News Link • Housing
The Housing Bubble Broke the Middle Class
04-27-2011
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OfTwoMinds.com/blog
Back at the top of the bubble, the middle class had $6 trillion more assets on the books. Considering the Mortgaged Middle Class now owns about $6 trillion in net assets, then the bursting of the housing bubble caused their net worth to drop by 50%.
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Libya: It’s Not About Oil, It’s About Currency and Loans
04-27-2011
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InformationClearingHouse.info
What happens when a “rogue” country threatens to bring the banking system that benefits the corporatocracy to its knees? What happens to an “empire” when it can no longer effectively be overtly imperialistic?
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Did Fed Just Tip Its Hand To a Third Round of Easing?
04-27-2011
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CNBC.com
With a subtle wave of his baton, the aspiring Maestro may have started the music for another round of Federal Reserve monetary easing.
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News Link • Food
Government Says Biotech Companies Can Be Their Own Safety Testers
04-27-2011
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Rebecca Boyle via PopSci.com
That means companies like Monsanto, which provides about 90 percent of the world’s transgenic crops, will help the government decide whether their own products should be approved.
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Fed Chairman Ben Blah-blahnanke holds a press conference
04-27-2011
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The Political Commentator, Michael Haltman
Nothing like listening to an egghead tell us how things are in the real world!
Summary: In the short period of time that I listened to the Chairman speak, the items below are what I took from it. For anyone who is involved in the real world and re
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