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Date Sent: 2011-10-25
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Tuesday, October 25, 2011 PM edition |
States Facing Debt of $4 Trillion -- Morgan Stanley Unloads Its Mortgage-Servicing Unit
Is Bank of America preparing for a Chapter 11? -- Ron Paul On Hannity 10/24/2011 -- Housing prices in 20 U.S. cities drop more than forecast in August -- Europe’s financial contagion -- What an economic collapse looks
like... -- Got A Hundred Bucks? Buy A Home (Or Virtually Anything Else)
Using 2,000x Non Recourse Leverage -- Silver: Ready to Pop or Drop? -- Trichet Interrupts Speech Calling For Formation Of European Finance Ministry, Booed Off -- Europe: Grimmer by the minute -- The Student Loan Racket: Ron Paul Right Again - by Tom Woods -- Conspiracy Of Silence (Banned Discovery Channel Documentary) -- 'My headache's about to explode': U.S. girls just dropping dead -- NATO Murders Libya for a Lie -- Pepe Escobar: NATO wanted Gaddafi dead all along -- Blame the Fed for the Financial Crisis -- Is the National Security Complex Too Big to Fail? -- And Now for Obama's Ugandan Military Adventure -- America's Unique Fascism -- The Sun Never Sets on the US Military -- Corporatism Is Not Capitalism -- Doug Casey: "Government is a monopoly of force" -- De Borchgrave: Former al-Qaida Leader Emerging as Strongman in Libya -- NPR fires Opera host for anti-war protests -- Police State Fascism Is Now Rampant: Martial Law Is Next! -- Could China take the United States down without ever firing a shot?
-- What Next for Libya? -- Anti-Democratic Knesset Bills -- Warp Drive
Deliberations
AZ: John Stuart trial continues
today;"Politics On The
Rocks" With Gary Johnson, Thurs Oct 27, 2011, 5:30 p.m.; Phoenix - Rock the Revolution Tour
is now set; Project
Appleseed 2011 Tour - November 5-6, 2011
CA: Libertopia in San Diego this weekend October
21-23!!!!
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
US States Are Facing Total Debt of Over $4 Trillion
10-25-2011
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CNBC
The total of U.S. state debt, including pension liabilities, could surpass $4 trillion, with California owing the most and Vermont owing the least, a new analysis says.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Morgan Stanley Unloads Its Mortgage-Servicing Unit
10-25-2011
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Wall Street Journal
Morgan Stanley agreed to sell Saxon Mortgage Services, its mortgage-servicing unit, to Ocwen Financial Corp., in a long-awaited deal that ends the investment bank's foray into subprime-mortgage servicing.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Is Bank of America preparing for a Chapter 11?
10-25-2011
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www.reuters.com
Settlement is now mostly muerto in political terms, although the big investors are still paying the big lawyers to soldier on in hope of forcing a settlement on all parties.
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Ernest Hancock
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Opinion • Outdoor Survival
A Suggested Survival List
10-25-2011
Chuck Baldwin
It’s once again time for my annual survival list column. One does not have to be a prophet to know that we are on the precipice of some potentially catastrophic"or at the very least, challenging"days.
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News Link • Housing
Housing prices in 20 U.S. cities drop more than forecast in August
10-25-2011
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www.washingtonpost.com
Oct. 25 (Bloomberg) -- Home prices in 20 U.S. cities dropped more than forecast in August, highlighting one of the obstacles facing the economic recovery in its third year.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Motivation
Skills out weigh the need to be a slave
10-25-11
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Libertytrade.net
It is time to free ourselves from our slave jobs. It is time to keep our hard earned money to ourselves. It is time to be free. Please join me.
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Agorist Alma
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News Link • Government
The American Form of Government
10-25-2011
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YouTube
An explanation of the various forms of government, and why America is not a democracy.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • World News
Europe’s financial contagion
10-25-2011
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Washington Post
Greece sneezed, and now most of Europe has a cold. The European debt crisis has already spread like a virus from Greece to Ireland and Portugal, and other countries are now at risk
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
What an economic collapse looks like...
10-25-2011
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TheEconomicCollapse.Com
The New Reality For U.S. Cities: No Money For Street Lights, Roving Packs Of Wild Dogs And Open-Air Drug Markets
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - International
What EU Leaders Must Decide at Debt Crisis Summit
10-25-2011
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CNBC
Leaders of the 17 euro zone countries will meet again in Brussels on Wednesday to finalize a "comprehensive strategy" to try to resolve the region's sovereign debt problems.
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News Link • World News
A trader in Greece relays the mood to us
10-25-2011
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Business Insider
A Greek Trader Tells Us The State Of Things, And Explains Why The Worst Is Yet To Come
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
The Truth About 'Margin Call' (movie)...
10-25-2011
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Business Insider
The Greatest Wall Street Movie That The Public Is Going To Hate. The new movie Margin Call, starring Stanley Tucci and Kevin Spacey, is getting rave reviews from people in finance.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Housing
A Look At 'Umka', The Domed Russian City Planned For Sub-Zero Arctic Temperatures
10-25-2011
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Business Insider
Russia is planning to further it's reach in the Arctic circle, according to a statement from Vladimir Putin's website. The country has already made a bold appeal to the UN to annex some 380,000 square miles of Arctic seabed due to the existence of oi
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Employment & Jobs
One Third Of Employers Say They Can't Fill Jobs Because There Aren't Enough Qualified Candid
10-25-2011
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Business Insider
Staffing company ManpowerGroup reports that 52% of U.S. employers say they're having trouble filling positions " which is a huge increase from last year
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Housing
Got A Hundred Bucks? Buy A Home (Or Virtually Anything Else) Using 2,000x Non Recourse Leverage
10-25-2011
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Zero Hedge
Today's adjustment to the government's HARP program to get anything with a pulse as close to the discount window as possible was not the only proposal to revive the moribund US housing market.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Police State
Woman arrested, handcuffed for eating candy and other outrageous societal breakdowns
10-25-2011
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Terrence Aym
Sometimes it seems a week can't go by without the news carrying another story about an outrageous act perpetrated by someone in authority who must have left their commonsense at home before they left for work. You might remember some of these storie
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Terrence Aym
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Netflix Implodes After Reporting Horrific Guidance; Notes It Repuchased Stock At $218 Avg Cost Basis
10-25-2011
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Zero Hedge
Earnings summary shows EPS forecast peaking at $0.70 which the street had at $1.10. Explains the epic collapse in the stock after hours.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - International
Vast business and investment opportunities in Mongolia
10-25-2011
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www.sovereignman.com
Mongolians know that they’re sitting on trillions of dollars worth of valuable resources, and that the economy is undergoing a rapid transformation. You can see it in their eyes… the energy, the buzz. Empire-building is in the cultural DNA here.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Internet
800K fewer subscribers humbles Netflix
10-25-2011
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slatest.slate.com
The big number in the third-quarter report was 800,000, which is roughly the amount of subscribers that Netflix lost on the heels of its unpopular decision to raise prices and its now-nixed plan to spin off its DVD-by-mail service into a separate com
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • European Union
Trichet Interrupts Speech Calling For Formation Of European Finance Ministry, Booed Off
10-25-2011
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Zero Hedge
It appears a few people at least were not too happy with the call for the formation of the United Empire of Europe, at Humboldt University where the speech was delivered. ...Booed Off By German Students
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News Link • Economy - International
Europe: Grimmer by the minute
10-25-2011
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money.cnn.com
"The sovereign debt crisis threatens the very existence of the eurozone," said Howard Archer, chief European economist at IHS Global. "It is therefore absolutely imperative that European policymakers finally deliver a major package."
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The Student Loan Racket: Ron Paul Right Again by Tom Woods
10-25-2011
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Daily Paul
Ron Paul was asked about student loan programs, which have made debt slaves out of countless kids, in his excellent interview on Meet the Press.
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News Link • Heroes
'Geezer' won't let thugs ruin his walks
10-25-2011
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Philly.Com
AN 84-YEAR-OLD ex-university official savagely attacked by four young punks during a walk in Wissahickon Valley Park earlier this week theorizes that the beating he endured was a cruel game of "get the old geezer."
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Healthcare
'My headache's about to explode': U.S. girls just dropping dead
10-25-2011
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World Net Daily
Unearthed documents reveal new deaths from 'mandated' shot
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Just For Fun!
How to Throw a Knife Like Bill the Butcher
10-25-2011
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ArtofManliness.com
Like the tomahawk, throwing a knife in combat has a significant downside"even when you’ve successfully stuck it in an enemy’s back, you’ve still lost your weapon.
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News Link • Philosophy: Fascism
On Hitler’s Mountain: It Can Happen Here
10-25-2011
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LewRockwell.com/Bob Bauman
A dictatorship in America would arrive largely unnoticed and insidiously, with the pretense of a free democracy intact. The prerequisites would be that the executive, legislative, and judicial functions would be in the hands of one party, headed by a
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News Link • NATO
NATO Murders Libya for a Lie
10-25-2011
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LRC
It was perhaps fitting that Gaddafi's final end was precipitated by a Predator drone strike courtesy of the US military as he attempted to escape his hometown of Sirte. It was NATO, after all, that has murdered the entire country.
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News Link • NATO
Pepe Escobar: NATO wanted Gaddafi dead all along
10-25-2011
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Prison Planet
Gaddafi at one point was a hero to the Western world, but for the last year Gaddafi was looked at as a villain. There are many reports explaining the reasons why the change of heart from the Western powers.
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News Link • Activism
V for Vendetta masks: Who's behind them?
10-25-2011
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BBC.co.uk
The sinister Guy Fawkes mask made famous by the film V for Vendetta has become an emblem for anti-establishment protest groups. Who's behind them?
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Blame the Fed for the Financial Crisis
10-25-2011
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PatriotUpdate.com
Money is not a government phenomenon, and it need not and should not be managed by government. When central banks like the Fed manage money they are engaging in price fixing, which leads not to prosperity but to disaster.
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
Is the National Security Complex Too Big to Fail?
10-25-2011
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AntiWar.com
Think of Iraq as the AIG of wars " the only difference being that the bailout there didn’t involve just three payouts. More than eight years after the Bush administration invaded that country, the bailout is, unbelievably enough, still going.
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News Link • Obama Administration
And Now for Obama's Ugandan Military Adventure
10-25-2011
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CATO.Org
The soldiers' mission is to help Ugandan forces round up the so-called Lord's Resistance Army, a group that few Americans had heard of before last week.
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News Link • Philosophy: Fascism
America's Unique Fascism
10-25-2011
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Mises.Org
"The dirty little secret is that there has been a bipartisan project of corporatism, the economic underpinning of fascism, for almost a century."
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News Link • Military
The Sun Never Sets on the US Military
10-25-2011
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AntiWar.com
Once again, President Obama has ordered U.S. soldiers into harm’s way unnecessarily. Last week, he quietly told the U.S. Congress that he had sent 100 U.S. Army Special Forces soldiers into Uganda to help governments in central Africa fight a rebel a
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News Link • Government
Doug Casey: "Government is a monopoly of force"
10-25-2011
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Casey Research
An excerpt of Doug’s musings on why “the problems we’re facing are 100% caused by the US government” " from the recent Casey/Sprott Summit When Money Dies.
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News Link • Libya
De Borchgrave: Former al-Qaida Leader Emerging as Strongman in Libya
10-25-2011
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NewsMax.Com
The death of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi could create a vacuum that a whole new slew of Islamic terrorists and would-be despots seek to fill, says award-winning journalist Arnaud de Borchgrave in an exclusive Newsmax.TV interview.
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News Link • Free Speech
NPR fires Opera host for anti-war protests
10-25-2011
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RT.Com/USA
Because one radio host is concerned that America is going baroque over its massive military budget, NPR has ditched the DJ behind its World of Opera program due to her affiliation with a political protest in Washington DC.
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News Link • Military
Soldiers burn O'Reilly books
10-25-2011
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RT.Com/USA
It gets awfully cold in the Afghan desert at night, and American troops need to sometimes take desperate measures to stay warm. One smart soldier in Afghanistan has stumbled on a trick, however: Bill O’Reilly’s book makes some damn good kindling.
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News Link • Martial Law
Police State Fascism Is Now Rampant: Martial Law Is Next!
10-25-2011
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LewRockwell.com/Gary Barnett
It is the invariable habit of bureaucracies, at all times and everywhere, to assume…that every citizen is a criminal. Their one apparent purpose, pursued with a relentless and furious diligence, is to convert the assumption into a fact.
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News Link • Libya
The End of History
10-25-2011
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LewRockwell.com/Paul Craig Roberts
Now that the CIA’s proxy army has murdered Gadhafi, what next for Libya?
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News Link • China
Could China take the United States down without ever firing a shot?
10-25-2011
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The Political Commentator
How has the United States boxed itself into an extremely dangerous corner by becoming increasingly reliant on our historic adversary, the Communist Chinese, for critical resources!
As one example, the United States faces the ever-present potential
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News Link • Science
Warp Drive Deliberations
10-25-2011
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arclein
A good question to ask at the end of this discussion is can an experiment be designed to generate and measure a very modest instantiation of a warp field? As briefly discussed by the author in, a Michelson-Morley interferometer may be a useful tool
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News Link • Agriculture
Robotic Strawberry Picking on the Wy
10-25-2011
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arclein
he system is able to non-invasively "see" beneath the surface of strawberries using four parts of the electromagnetic spectrum, namely radio frequencies, microwaves, terahertz radiation and far-infrared light. Both the hardware and software involve
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News Link • Science
Corn Crop Circles in Upper Pennsylvania
10-25-2011
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arclein
A corn field of course is six to ten feet tall with one inch stalks. The real surprise is that the microwave system used from high up was able to do the job. Again it would be neat to get a field report detailing the bending of the stalks. What is
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
NASA Hid Low Orbit Fuel Depot Option to Fund Heavy Lift
10-25-2011
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arclein
Today we are suddenly looking at plenty of heavily lift capacity coming on stream and also plenty of government funds from any number of governments to support space industry. This means that it behooves us to quickly get out of mission specific ope
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Opinion • WAR: About that War
Ray McGovern: My Take
Switching Focus from Iraq to Iran
10-24-2011
Ray McGovern
President Barack Obama’s withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq is a blow to the neocons who had long dreamt of permanent military bases. But the neocons are now trying to spin the Iraq disaster into another excuse to confront Iran, writes Ray McGovern.
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