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Date Sent: 2011-05-02
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Monday, May 2, 2011 PM edition |
Backlash at killing of Gaddafi's son -- Rumor: Israeli Jets Prepare For Imminent Strike Against Iran
I Could Not Make This Up: Osama bin
Laden's body buried at sea -- Ron Paul's Texas Straight Talk 5/2/11: Fed Transparency a Bigger Issue
than Birth Certificates -- Ron Paul: Success of the May 5th Debate +
Moneybomb Crucial to my Decision! -- GPS Company TomTom Sold Drivers' Speeding Data to Dutch Police -- Ron Paul on Stossel 4/28/11 -- From 9/11 To Osama Bin Laden's Death, Congress Spent $1.28 Trillion In War On Terror -- Spain, Struggling With Weak Economy, Raises Taxes, Attacks Business -- UN Strong-Arming Little Sri Lanka Is World's Biggest Untold Story? --
Chris Hedges: Osama bin Laden’s Death and The Dark Elixir of American
Nationalism -- Kathy Kelly - is co-coordinator of Voices for Creative
Nonviolence (Drone Attacks in Afghanistan) -- Ten States Where Pensions Are Running Out Of Money -- US mulls making more firms pay
corporate tax -- Captured on Twitter: U.S. raid
against Osama bin Laden -- Taliban Vow Revenge -- Israel withholds Palestinian cash transfer -- April
deadliest month for US in Iraq since 2009 -- Afghanistan: Suicide
bomber 'aged 12' kills four -- Syrian troops overwhelm protest town --
Regional armies on alert as Libya crisis deepens -- Syria:
Intervention Inevitable -- Fed Sting Against Amish Raw Milk Producer Results in Federal Case -- Inside
Egypt's "Facebook Revolution" -- Google Faces $50 Million Lawsuit Over
Android Location Tracking -- Shed a Tear: The Age of Broadband
Caps Begins Today -- Shawn Perger
on Money Mafia Manipulations, the Rise of Silver and His Exciting New
Venture -- Does CIA Assassination of Bin Laden Make Obama a Shoe-In for
2012? -- An interview with Chris Martenson -- Silver Down 12%, Big Default Rumored at Comex
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Backlash at killing of Gaddafi's son
05-02-2011
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The Independent
Supporters of Libyan leader set fire to British embassy [and Italian embassy] in Tripoli / UN withdraws staff after its HQ is attacked by furious protesters / Nato accused of exceeding its mandate as civilians die in airstrike
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Iran
Rumor: Israeli Jets Prepare For Imminent Strike Against Iran
05-02-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
Iranian PressTV reports that Israeli jet fighters have reportedly conducted drills at a military base in Iraq in order to strike targets inside Iran. While the Pentagon has so far denied this development which could easily send oil to $200...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Obama Administration
I Could Not Make This Up: Osama bin Laden's body buried at sea
05-02-2011
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cbsnews.com
Editor note: Coffee almost flew out of my mouth when I read this... Osama bin Laden, the long-time figurehead of the al Qaeda terrorist network, has been buried at sea after being killed in a U.S. raid in Pakistan.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Ron Paul: Success of the May 5th Debate + Moneybomb Crucial to my Decision!
05-02-2011
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dailypaul.com
This Thursday, May 5th, I have agreed to participate in the Fox News debate in Greenville, South Carolina. The debate itself will be a major factor in determining if we launch a full-fledged campaign later in the month.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
GPS Company TomTom Sold Drivers' Speeding Data to Dutch Police
05-02-2011
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http://www.foxnews.com/
AMSTERDAM " GPS mapping company TomTom apologized after it admitted selling data collected from its customers to Dutch police, the Financial Times reported Friday.
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader 3
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News Link • 911 / World Trade Center
From 9/11 To Osama Bin Laden's Death, Congress Spent $1.28 Trillion In War On Terror
05-02-2011
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huffingtonpost.com
It took 3,519 days since September 11, 2001, for U.S. forces to finally kill Osama bin Laden, the chief architect of the terrorist attacks that define that date.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Obama Administration
Osama Bin Laden Dead: Inside The Raid That Killed Him
05-02-2011
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huffingtonpost.com
Helicopters descended out of darkness on the most important counterterrorism mission in U.S. history. It was an operation so secret, only a select few U.S. officials knew what was about to happen.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Obama Administration
What next after bin Laden death?
05-02-2011
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english.aljazeera.net
Osama bin Laden's death is politically momentous for the US, but may not sound death knell for al-Qaeda.
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News Link • World News
Osama bin Laden killed by US forces
05-02-2011
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english.aljazeera.net
US officials say al-Qaeda leader buried at sea after night-time raid on compound north of Pakistani capital.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Obama Administration
Five bizarre GOP reactions to bin Laden’s death
05-02-2011
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RawStory.com
The news that Osama bin Laden was killed Sunday during a U.S. firefight in Pakistan led to heaps of praise for military service members and President Barack Obama, even from his biggest political adversaries.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • World News
Osama bin Laden Is Dead Again?
05-02-2011
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dailybell.ch
America's number one enemy is dead. "I can report to the American people and to the world that the United States has conducted an operation that killed Osama bin Laden
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • World News
UN Strong-Arming Little Sri Lanka Is World's Biggest Untold Story?
05-02-2011
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dailybell.ch
How, then, has it come about that this little man has engaged in antics that have deeply upset us in Sri Lanka for several weeks?
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • World News
Today on LewRockwell.com - Monday May 2nd, 2011
05-02-2011
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lewrockwell.com
The Specter of bin Ladinism - Eric Margolis on what the US has done. / Osama bin Laden's 2nd Death - Paul Craig Roberts on the Obama show. / The Justice System Is Criminal - Bill Anderson on crooked prosecutors and crooked judges.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
Chris Hedges: Osama bin Laden’s Death and The Dark Elixir of American Nationalism
05-02-2011
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TruthDig.com
And empire finally, as Thucydides understood, is a disease. As Thucydides wrote, the tyranny that the Athenian empire imposed on others it finally imposed on itself. The disease of empire, according to Thucydides, would finally kill...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Propaganda
James Howard Kunstler: Lying Is the New Normal
05-02-2011
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Kunstler.com
When historians gather around their campfires a half century from now, they will marvel at our idiocy. Among the vital matters we failed to reckon was the diminishing returns of technology as applied to news and information. The slicker our...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • 911 / World Trade Center
Osama Bin Laden Pronounced Dead… For the Ninth Time
05-02-2011
When Obama pronounced Osama Bin Laden dead in a televised announcement heard round the world last night, he was at least the ninth major head of state or high-ranking government official to have done so.
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Tom Westbrook
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News Link • Conspiracies
Staged Osama Assassination: Get Ready for More War
05-02-2011
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prisonplanet.com
If the cheering crowd at midnight outside the White House is any indication, the American people are ready to support more mass murder in the Middle East.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Conspiracies
Video of Benazir Bhutto Declaring Osama Bin Laden Was Dead
05-02-2011
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video.google.com
This video interview of Benazir Bhutto by David Frost took place shortly before her assassination on Dec. 27th, 2007.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
The Tea Party & The Budget Mess: Distractions Aside
05-02-2011
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Market-ticker.org
More to the point, the maximum negative GDP print during the 08-09 recession was -3.0%! So what's being proposed is an intentional recession of at least double the pain taken in 08-09. Is this being honestly presented? No.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Militia
Is 'Drop Zone Bill' friend or snitch in Alaska militia movement?
05-02-2011
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Alaska Dispatch
...leading up to the arrests of five Alaska militia members for allegedly plotting to murder state and federal officials, the behavior of another Alaskan known as “Drop Zone Bill” was raising eyebrows.
...some say, [he became] an anti-government a
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Justin Tyme
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Ten States Where Pensions Are Running Out Of Money
05-02-2011
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EconomicPolicyJournal.com
The Pew foundation recently released its “The Widening Gap: It reported that states have a cumulative retiree and healthcare shortfall of $1.26 trillion.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
US mulls making more firms pay corporate tax
05-02-2011
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Reuters
The Obama administration is considering a plan to force more businesses to pay the corporate income tax, an industry group said, in an overhaul package that could be unveiled as early as this month.
Under the proposal, entities with more than $50
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Currencies
"The Dollar Plummets" May 2nd Edition
05-02-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
After some patriotic sentiment modestly pushed the dollar to just above humiliation levels, the DXY is right back to lowest level since July 2008. We still have about 150 pips to go until the all time low of 71.3521 from April 22, 2008 is taken out.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Healthcare
Doc holiday: Behind the coming physician shortage
05-02-2011
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NY Post
The United States already faces a growing physician shortage. As our population ages, we require more and more intensive health care. At the same time, enrollment in medical schools has been essentially flat, meaning we are not producing new physicia
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
Captured on Twitter: U.S. raid against Osama bin Laden
05-02-2011
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Reuters
In the early hours of Monday, Sohaib Athar reported on Twitter that a loud bang had rattled his windows in the Pakistani town of Abbottabad, adding that he hoped it wasn't "the start of something nasty.
A few hours later Athar posted another tweet
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News Link • Heroes
Parents watch as eight-year-old boy is sucked into tornado at 200mph... but LIVES to tell tale
05-02-2011
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/
He is the boy who got sucked up into a tornado " and lived to tell the tale.
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader 3
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News Link • World News
Israel withholds Palestinian cash transfer
05-02-2011
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http://english.aljazeera.net/
Israel suspends transfer of $89m to Palestinian Authority in view of recent unity deal between Fatah and Hamas.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
April deadliest month for US in Iraq since 2009
05-02-2011
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http://news.yahoo.com/
BAGHDAD (AFP) " The killing on Friday of an American soldier made April the deadliest month for US forces in Iraq since 2009, according to figures compiled by AFP.
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader 3
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Afghanistan: Suicide bomber 'aged 12' kills four
05-02-2011
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/
A suicide bomber said to be aged 12 has killed four people in east Afghanistan, one of several attacks a day after the Taliban announced a spring offensive.
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
Syrian troops overwhelm protest town
05-02-2011
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/
BEIRUT " Syrian troops seized control of a mosque at the center of the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad's rule on Saturday, as the regime shrugged off fresh sanctions imposed by the Obama administration.
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
Regional armies on alert as Libya crisis deepens
05-02-2011
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http://www.google.com
BAMAKO " Army chiefs from Mali, Mauritania, Niger and Algeria are on alert as the crisis in nearby Libya deteriorates, placing the entire region at risk, a military source said on Saturday.
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News Link • Propaganda
When Does "Managed Perception" Become Reality?
05-02-2011
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OfTwoMinds.com/blog
The difference between blatant propaganda and "managing perceptions" is... well, there isn't any. The Fed and Federal machinery are both engaged in a massive propaganda campaign to obscure the gargantuan risks implicit in their various...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Healthcare
Fed Sting Against Amish Raw Milk Producer Results in Federal Case
05-02-2011
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http://www.prisonplanet.com/
A year long sting operation against an Amish “contraband” raw milk producer in Pennsylvania has resulted in a court case against Rainbow Acres Farms.
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
Inside Egypt's "Facebook Revolution"
05-02-2011
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http://www.technologyreview.com/
Two leaders of Egypt's youth movement described this evening how they combined non-violent ideals with online social networking to nurture labor and democracy protests over a three-year period.
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News Link • Events: America
Google Faces $50 Million Lawsuit Over Android Location Tracking
05-02-2011
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http://www.wired.com/
Google and Apple have both been in the news lately over details of how both companies’ mobile operating systems store and transmit geolocation data.
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News Link • Free Speech
The Little Red (Face)Book
05-02-2011
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http://www.wired.com/
When I spoke at Facebook about In The Plex recently, rumors were swirling that the social networking giant was about to enter China, supposedly in a partnership with the search engine Baidu.
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Shawn Perger on Money Mafia Manipulations, the Rise of Silver and His Exciting New Venture
05-02-2011
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http://dailybell.ch/
The Daily Bell is pleased to present an exclusive interview with Shawn Perger.
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News Link • Obama Administration
Does CIA Assassination of Bin Laden Make Obama a Shoe-In for 2012?
05-02-2011
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NakedCapitalism.com/
As readers know, I’m not fan of the Obama Administration, but its success in killing Osama bin Laden, just announced on multiple news services and the subject of an imminent Presidential announcement, would seem to be a major positive for...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Precious Metals
Silver Down 12%, Big Default Rumored at Comex
05-02-2011
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NakedCapitalism.com/
The Comex is facing a default, and the powers that be are very nervous since it involves at least one of the TBTF monstrosities.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Off Grid Living - Survival Prepping
Raising Midget White Turkeys, the Perfect Homestead Meat Bird
05-02-2011
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http://www.survivalblog.com/
Like many preppers, we've been looking for ways to expand our self-sufficiency. With 25 years of experience raising chickens for both meat and eggs, adding another meat fowl seemed like a good move.
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News Link • TERRORISM
Osama bin Laden, Hamas-Fatah, the Muslim Brotherhood and hopes for peace in the Middle East
05-02-2011
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The Political Commentator, Michael Haltman
Breaking good news/bad news: Osama bin Laden killed!
The good news is that Osama bin Laden is dead! Kudos to our national intelligence complex and to the Navy Seals who pulled it off.
The bad news is that bin Laden's death, while a great thing
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News Link • Agriculture
Namib Beetle Inspires Fog Sails
05-02-2011
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arclein
Shreerang Chhatre was inspired by the Namib Beetle, an insect that collects water droplets on bumps on its back, then drinks them when they roll down to its mouth. His "fog harvesters," like those created by other scientists, use a mesh panel in pl
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robert klein
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News Link • Politics
Canadian Conservative Majority?
05-02-2011
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arclein
The most recent projection out of 308 ridings (155 needed for majority)
147 for Conservatives
78 NDP
55 Liberal
27 Bloq Quebec
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