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Date Sent: 2011-09-06
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Tuesday, September 6, 2011 |
Gaddafi, Britain and US: A secret, special and very cozy relationship
Alabama schools complain they will lose new tornado shelters -- Analysis: Pension funds in new crisis as deficit hole grows -- Leak Offers Look at Efforts by U.S. to Spy on Israel -- Libyans say China, Europe sent arms to Gaddafi -- Arms makers eye exports to offset Pentagon cuts -- G7 to seek ways to prop up global growth: source -- Foreclosure-Gate: US Banks Offered Deal Over 'Robo-signing' Lawsuits --
The Consequences of Foreclosure-Gate: "My Job Is To Watch Dreams Die"
-- Want To Know If Your City or County Is Adopting Agenda 21? -- UBS: "The Euro Should Not Exist" In A Report On The Odds Of An EU Breakup -- Asia stocks dragged down by selloff in Europe -- Convoy of Libyan, Tuareg troops crosses into Niger -- Terrorism: A Symptom of Government -- CNN: New Footage Of United 93 Aftermath Surfaces (Video) -- Ron Paul to Congress: Show True Compassion by Abolishing FEMA -- Tony Blair was ‘godfather to Murdoch’s daughter’ -- Chris Hedges: Libya - Here We Go Again -- Doug Casey on the Continuance of the Greater Depression --More Insanity: Proposals For Mass-Refinancing -- The Decline of Manufacturing in America: A Case Study -- Foreclosure-Gate: Your Guide To The Massive Bank Lawsuits -- Lawlessness and Injustice Define America and Israel -- Tooth Regeneration Achieved -- North Dakota's Economic Miracle
AZ: Arizona State
University Law School Debate - "Should Marijuana Be Legalized?"
Sept. 12@ noon
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Gaddafi, Britain and US: A secret, special and very cosy relationship
09-05-2011
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independent.co.uk
So close had the relationship become that several Western European intelligence agencies were using the services of MI6 to approach the Libyans for help with their own terrorist suspects.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • F.E.M.A.
Alabama schools complain they will lose new tornado shelters
09-05-2011
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That shelter, plus other school shelters that the Federal Emergency Management Agency is paying to install in other counties, is intended only for temporary use while students attend class in portable classrooms due to tornado damage. But once that p
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Analysis: Pension funds in new crisis as deficit hole grows
09-05-2011
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Reuters
Pension funds in developed economies are facing a new crisis as falling equities and tumbling bond yields widen their deficits, threatening the incomes and retirement dates of future retirees.
At the heart of their problems is a steady move by pen
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Israel
Leak Offers Look at Efforts by U.S. to Spy on Israel
09-05-2011
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NY Times
When Shamai K. Leibowitz, an F.B.I. translator, was sentenced to 20 months in prison last year for leaking classified information to a blogger, prosecutors revealed little about the case. They identified the blogger in court papers only as “Recipient
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Libya
Libyans say China, Europe sent arms to Gaddafi
09-05-2011
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Reuters
Libya's new leadership has evidence Muammar Gaddafi bought arms this year from sanctions-busting traders in China and Europe, many of them via Algeria, but are split over how far to retaliate against governments who failed to stop it.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
Arms makers eye exports to offset Pentagon cuts
09-05-2011
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Reuters
Arms sales will be among the subjects explored at the annual Reuters Aerospace and Defense Summit in Washington September 6-8. Company executives, Pentagon officials and analysts will discuss projected cuts in U.S. military spending that nearly doubl
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Federal Reserve
G7 to seek ways to prop up global growth: source
09-05-2011
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Reuters
Group of Seven financial leaders, worried about risks to global growth, are likely to agree this week to keep monetary policy accommodative, slow fiscal consolidation in countries where that is possible and implement structural reforms, a G7 source s
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Housing
U.S. banks offered deal over lawsuits
09-05-2011
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Reuters
The talks aim to settle allegations that banks including Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo, Citigroup and Ally Financial, seized the homes of delinquent borrowers and broke state laws by employing so-called "robosigners," workers who signe
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Housing
Foreclosure-Gate: US Banks Offered Deal Over 'Robo-signing' Lawsuits
09-05-2011
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CNBC.com
According to five people with direct knowledge of the discussions, state prosecutors have proposed settlement language in the “robosigning” case that also might release the companies from legal liability for wrongful securitization practices.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
The Consequences of Foreclosure-Gate: "My Job Is To Watch Dreams Die"
09-05-2011
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Businessinsider.com
What's it like to be the guy that literally has to go into people's houses, and tell them that they've been foreclosed on, and that they need to leave?
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • New World Order
Want To Know If Your City or County Is Adopting Agenda 21?
09-05-2011
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iclei.org
Several cities and counties in Arizona are going to enforce Agenda 21. Check the list to see where your city stands.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • European Union
UBS: "The Euro Should Not Exist" In A Report On The Odds Of An EU Breakup
09-05-2011
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Businessinsider.com
The cost of a weak country leaving the Euro is significant. Consequences include sovereign default, corporate default, collapse of the banking system and collapse of international trade.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - International
Asia stocks dragged down by selloff in Europe
09-05-2011
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AP
Asian stocks fell Tuesday, dragged down by sharp losses in European markets the day before as fears mounted of a worsening global economy.
Oil slid to $84 a barrel amid expectations that continued weakness in developed economies will crimp demand
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Libya
Convoy of Libyan, Tuareg troops crosses into Niger
09-05-2011
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AP
A large convoy of Libyan soldiers loyal to ousted leader Moammar Gadhafi crossed the desert border into Niger and rolled into the frontier town of Agadez late Monday, a resident who is the owner of a local newspaper said.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • 911 / World Trade Center
CNN: New Footage Of United 93 Aftermath Surfaces (Video)
09-05-2011
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CNN
From Huffington Post: On Sunday night, CNN anchor Susan Hendricks introduced new footage from the immediate aftermath of United Flight 93, which crashed into a field in rural Pennsylvania on 9/11. The clip was recorded by an unnamed man "apparently n
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Joe Plummer
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
Tony Blair was ‘godfather to Murdoch’s daughter’
09-05-2011
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www.rawstory.com
The revelation first emerged in a Vogue magazine interview with Murdoch's wife Wendi Deng, which also contains claims that Blair was present when Murdoch and Deng's two daughters were baptised beside the River Jordan in March last year.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
Chris Hedges: Libya - Here We Go Again
09-05-2011
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TruthDig.com
And to do it Obama blithely shredded the Constitution and bypassed Congress in violation of the War Powers Resolution. Not that the rule of law matters much in Washington.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Doug Casey on the Continuance of the Greater Depression
09-05-2011
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LewRockwell.com
Right now the US Government is spending over a trillion and a half dollars more than they are taking in " but that's as good as it's going to get. We're already in the best of all possible worlds, considering what's happened. It gets vastly worse...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
More Insanity: Proposals For Mass-Refinancing
09-05-2011
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Market-ticker.org
Indeed it is a disaster. Oh, and who holds those RMBS? Pension funds of various sorts, including traditional pension holders and insurance companies that use them as the base for annuities, in the main, as their relatively long duration...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The Decline of Manufacturing in America: A Case Study
09-05-2011
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NakedCapitalism.com/
How do these “labor cost is destiny” advocates explain the continued success of export powerhouse Germany? Finally, the offshoring,/outsourcing vogue ignores the riskiness and lower flexibility of extended supply chains.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Foreclosure-Gate: Your Guide To The Massive Bank Lawsuits
09-05-2011
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Businessinsider.com
On Friday, the Federal Housing Finance Agency filed suit against 17 banks and over 130 executives for their involvement in selling mortgage securities to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac that later soured.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
James Howard Kunstler: Perestroika
09-05-2011
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Kunstler.com
Given the situation, it's not unthinkable that self-styled Texas secessionist Rick Perry could be the next president. On top of that, the guy is a Christian Dominionist nut. This outfit wants to capture all politics, culture, and media in what is...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Tooth Regeneration Achieved
09-05-2011
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arclein
he fluid developed by researchers in the University of Leeds' School of Chemistry contains a peptide known as P 11-4 that will assemble into fibers under certain conditions. When applied to a tooth, the fluid seeps into the micro-pores that form whe
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robert klein
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News Link • Environment
Reforestation of 580,000 Square Miles
09-05-2011
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arclein
"Restoring 150 million hectares of degraded lands represents an exciting and largely untapped opportunity to create more jobs and economic growth, while also protecting our climate," said Göran Persson, a former Prime Minister of Sweden who will le
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robert klein
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
North Dakota's Economic Miracle
09-05-2011
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arclein
According to new data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics today, North Dakota had an unemployment rate of just 3.3 percent in July"that’s just over a third of the national rate (9.1 percent), and about a quarter of the rate of the state with t
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robert klein
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Feds warn of small airplane terror threats
09-04-2011
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AP
The FBI and Homeland Security have issued a nationwide warning about al-Qaida threats to small airplanes, just days before the anniversary of the 2001 terrorist attacks.
Authorities say there is no specific or credible terrorist threat for the 10-
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Surveillance
Researchers Harvest Beetle’s Wing Energy to Power the Mind Control Chip in Its Brain
09-04-2011
Of course, the next logical step researchers in Michigan took was to fit the beetles with piezoelectronics on their wings so that they power their own mind control implants through flight. Yes. This is a thing that is happening.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
CIA lawyer: Obama ‘endorsed’ nearly all Bush-era programs
09-04-2011
John Rizzo, one of the top attorneys for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), claims that President Barack Obama has “endorsed” nearly all of the controversial Bush administration secret warfare programs.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Conspiracies
Europe and U.S. should consider stimulating growth: IMF's Lagard
09-04-2011
IMF chief Christine Lagarde said in an interview released on Sunday that Europe and the United States should consider stimulating economic growth, if the situation permits, to offset a crisis of confidence hitting the global economy.
"Looking at E
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
CIA rendition might rely on ‘non-existent’ State Dept. official
09-04-2011
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Rawstory
As the Washington Post and others have reported today, an obscure court case in New York state has led to the disclosure of new details on CIA's extraordinary rendition program, in which the U.S. captured dozens of alleged terrorists and sent them to
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Police (without warrant) assisted Apple in search of man's home
09-04-2011
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CNN
Police officials said they helped Apple investigators, who searched a man's home here recently.
They were reportedly looking for a prototype of the next iPhone that an Apple employee left in a bar in San Francisco's Mission neighborhood, according
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Iraq
Leaked cable: Ex-Blackwater guards kept working in Iraq
09-04-2011
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Rawstory
ex-Blackwater employees kept working in Iraq with other security firms.
"There are many former Blackwater employees at other private security companies in Iraq, most notably Triple Canopy and DynCorp, providing security services to us," said a Jan
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
U.S. sets ultimatum in Swiss bank tax dispute: reports
09-04-2011
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Reuters
The United States has written to Switzerland to demand it hands over detailed information this week on its citizens using Swiss accounts to dodge tax or see Credit Suisse and nine other banks face charges, newspapers reported on Sunday.
The letter
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Obama pushes transport bills, says jobs at stake
09-04-2011
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Reuters
President Barack Obama urged Congress Wednesday to quickly pass multibillion-dollar temporary funding bills for aviation and highway projects, saying inaction would needlessly cost jobs.
Obama said it would be "inexcusable" for lawmakers to not ac
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TERRORISM
35,000 worldwide convicted for terror
09-04-2011
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AP
In the first tally ever done of global anti-terror arrests and convictions, The Associated Press documented a surge in prosecutions under new or toughened anti-terror laws, often passed at the urging and with the funding of the West.
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News Link • Entertainment: Games
Marco Tempest: The magic of truth and lies (and iPods)
09-04-2011
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youtube (h/t Lew Rockwell blog)
http://www.ted.com Using three iPods like magical props, Marco Tempest spins a clever, surprisingly heartfelt meditation on truth and lies, art and emotion.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Government
Some Animals Are More Equal than Others - by Jim Davidson
09-04-2011
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The Libertarian Enterprise
The question, to me, is not whether the governments at various levels ought to do their business in the light of day. The question is whether you are going to continue to let them get away with treating you like a plantation slave after their behavio
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News Link • Internet
Flash Mobs and Hi-Caps - by L. Neil Smith
09-04-2011
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The Libertarian Enterprise
Politicians, well accustomed to eighty centuries of strictly vertical communications, issuing haughty decrees to the masses, and acting arrogantly against the clearly expressed will of their constituents, can be confronted now, practically on a momen
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Case Dismissed Against Journalism Student Arrested For Taking Photos
09-04-2011
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Photography Is Not a Crime
Loeb said he was trailing at least 20 feet behind the pair when the cop ordered him to walk in another direction. Loeb told the Daily News that he refused the order.
"As this was interfering with the police actions, police stated to defendant that
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Arizona now charges visitors $25 to visit prisoners
09-04-2011
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NY Times
For the Arizona Department of Corrections, crime has finally started to pay.
New legislation allows the department to impose a $25 fee on adults who wish to visit inmates at any of the 15 prison complexes that house state prisoners.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Anonymous hacks Texas police and dumps shocking emails online
09-04-2011
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Daily Mail
Hackers have accessed the email accounts of more than 24 law enforcement agencies in Texas and dumped the contents online. The data came from the work and personal emails of officers, including department chiefs.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Agriculture
The Great Oyster Crash
09-04-2011
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arclein
, it provided the first example of how a worldwide crisis in ocean chemistry could devastate coastal economies and change restaurant menus across the country.
Whiskey Creek is owned by the husband-and-wife team of Sue Cudd and Mark Wiegardt. Wiega
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robert klein
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News Link • Climate Change
New Icelandic Deep Current
09-04-2011
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arclein
The "conveyor belt" current, introduced to movie-goers in the Al Gore environmental film "An Inconvenient Truth," carries warm surface water from the tropical Atlantic toward the Arctic. In the process, the water warms the air in high latitudes,
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Potatoes and Glycemic Load
09-04-2011
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arclein
Nutritionist thought they were doing the right thing by telling everyone to remove all fat from your diet. But it’s not fat that makes you fat. It’s excess carbohydrates.
As far as a potato goes, Howard might as well have said, “I’m eating a snick
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robert klein
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News Link • Agriculture
Canadian Wheat Board War
09-04-2011
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arclein
The federal government was hoping the farmers would not care about the board and the meetings would be poorly attended. It’s the exact opposite. At every one of the first six [of seven] meetings, we’ve had to put out more chairs than expected " even
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robert klein
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News Link • Archaeology
Saudi Arabia Discovers 9000 Year Old Civilization
09-04-2011
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arclein
"The Maqar Civilization is a very advanced civilization of the Neolithic period. This site shows us clearly, the roots of the domestication of horses 9,000 years ago."
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Chocolate Provides Huge Protection Against Cardiovascular Disease.
09-04-2011
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arclein
For each of seven studies that were analyzed, the research team compared the group with the highest chocolate consumption against the group with the lowest consumption (to minimize bias, they factored in differences in the way each study had been des
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robert klein
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
US Official refused to believe that the woman was a professional racer refuses woman driver entry.
009-03-2011
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rt.com
De Silvestro tried to come into the United States last week to participate at the IndyCar race in Sonoma, California. An agent working for US Customs became concerned over frequent trips from country to country that the 23-year-old racer had been tak
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Ronald Bogner
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Opinion • Arizona's Top News
Pearce Fundraiser Info
09-02-2011
Becky Fenger
If you support conservative patriots isn’t Senate President Russell Pearce number one on your list? We have joined Larry Wendt, owner of the Buffalo Chip Saloon and Steakhouse (BCS&SH) in sponsoring a fund raiser for Russell Pearce.
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