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Date Sent: 2012-02-24
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, February 24, 2012 PM edition |
More Than 100,000 Americans Are Domestic Terrorists -- Argentine advice for Greece: ‘Default Now!’
Marvel Comics to US gov't: mutants are not human (and should not be
taxed as such) -- Lining Main Street in Mesa for Dr. Ron Paul's Entrance
(video) -- Liberty Forum Photos - Drew Phillips and Ross Edwards... --
Foreign-Located Money Services Businesses -- What If Democracy Is Bunk?
-- Peru makes last-minute claim to Spanish booty of the Nuestra Señora de las Mercedes -- February 24th, 2012 - Drew Phillips-Declan McCullagh Listen Live LRN.FM, M-F, 9-Noon (EST) -- URGENT PRAYER and ACTION to
PROTEST imminent EXECUTION of PASTOR YOUCEF NADARKHANI! -- Europe’s
inevitable Greek divorce -- Lying Chancellor Birgeneau Knew Of Baton Use By Campus Police -- The dysfunctional HOA of the USA -- Oil rises to fresh 9-month high
near $109 in Asia -- RBS says pay row "damaging" as losses mount -- Wall
St rises, nearing 4-year highs -- Unemployment aid applications stay at
4-year low -- AIG posts huge 4th-quarter profit on tax benefit -- Poll: Millionaire tax popular, spending cuts too --
Higher gas prices cloud Obama's re-election hopes -- Chavez to head to
Cuba for new surgery -- Disabled Bolivians clash with riot police --
Closing Time: Postal Service May Cut 35,000 Jobs -- Maryland Passes Bill
To Legalize Gay Marriage -- Mainscream: US media Iran hysteria -- Justice US-style: ‘Commander-In-Chief has already announced Bradley Manning is guilty’ -- Families of slaughtered children to sue the CIA -- Clinton: Syria Rebels to Find Arms ‘Somewhere’ --
Israel Faces New Hunger Striker After Reneging on Prisoner Swap --
Obama admin defends killing American terrorists [OK for US, not OK for
Syria!] -- Iran Court Convicts Christian Pastor Convert to Death
Ron Paul Peace & Sound Money Blimps Have Arrived and are for sale.
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News Link • Government
Report: More Than 100,000 Americans Are Domestic Terrorists
02-24-2012
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Paul Joseph Watson
An L.A. Times report which characterizes the Sovereign Citizen movement as “a major threat” on a par with Islamic extremism infers that “more than 100,00 Americans” are domestic terrorists as a result of their affiliation with the group.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • European Union
Argentine advice for Greece: ‘Default Now!’
02-24-2012
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RT
Here in Argentina, when we watch the terrible things that are happening today in Greece, we can only exclaim, “Hey!! That’s exactly what happened in Argentina in 2001 and 2002…!”
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Cartoons and Web Graphics
Marvel Comics to US gov't: mutants are not human (and should not be taxed as such)
02-24-2012
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www.boingboing.net
Radiolab covers the strange saga of Marvel Comics's fight against the US customs authority over whether X-Men dollies were "dolls" or "toys" -- the difference being that dolls (which are defined as characters that represent humans) are taxed at twice
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Activism
Lining Main Street in Mesa for Dr. Ron Paul's Entrance (video)
02-24-2012
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Ron Paul Films/YouTube
Signs for other candidates seem to be conspicuously missing... ?
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Activism
Liberty Forum Photos - Drew Phillips and Ross Edwards...
02-24-2012
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Freed State Project
Drew Phillips and Ross Edwards travel to New Hampshire (Feb 23rd-26th) to attend Liberty Forum. Updates/Photos will be posted here...
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Foreign-Located Money Services Businesses
02-24-2012
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www.fincen.gov
On July 21, 2011, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) published in the Federal Register a final rule on definitions and other regulations relating to money services businesses (Final Rule).1
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Political Theory
What If Democracy Is Bunk?
02-24-2012
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Andrew Napolitano
What if you are only allowed to vote because it doesn’t make a difference? What if no matter how you vote, the elites get to have it their way?
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Peru makes last-minute claim to Spanish booty of the Nuestra Señora de las Mercedes
02-23-2012
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Global Post
In a final twist to a five-year legal drama, the Peruvian government today appealed to the US Supreme Court to prevent the return to Spain of mountains of salvaged 19th-century lucre that are sitting in a US air base in Florida, according to The Asso
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Media: Internet
Get Ready for the Ron Paul Powercast!
02-24-2012
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www.revolutionpac.com
The 12-hour webcast, preceding Tuesday's Michigan and Arizona primaries, runs from noon to midnight February 25 in conjunction with a 24-hour, $1 million fundraiser to support the committee's Super Tuesday ad campaign, GOTV efforts and election integ
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • TERRORISM
NYPD spying operation...What exactly is all the ruckus about?
02-24-2012
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The Political Commentator
Is the United States fighting a global war on terror or not?
If the United States is fighting a GWOT (aka Overseas Contingency Operations for you Obama liberals out there), and we most definitely are, do covert monitoring operations reside so far
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Michael Haltman
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News Link • Iran
URGENT PRAYER and ACTION to PROTEST imminent EXECUTION of PASTOR YOUCEF NADARKHANI!
022412
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www.varight.com
Pray for the release of Pastor Nadarkhani and contact the Iranian Interests Section!
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Sandy Sanders
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News Link • Food
Rabbits from start to finish
02-24-2012
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by M.D. Creekmore
I had rabbits when I was young but only as pets. Our children had rabbits growing up, again only as pets. We now have rabbits but they are for food.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • European Union
Europe’s inevitable Greek divorce
02-24-2012
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By Felix Salmon
Essentially, Germany wants Greeks to become German: to stoically accept real wage deflation while working hard and paying their taxes in a good Protestant manner.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Employee and Employer Relations
Republic Windows, redux? Workers occupy Goose Island plant
02-24-2012
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By Alejandra Cancino
A group of about 65 workers who occupied a Goose Island window factory in 2008 have once again locked themselves inside the plant in a desperate move to save their jobs.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Police State
Robert Birgeneau Knew Of Baton Use By Campus Police
02-24-2012
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Tyler Kingkade
Newly released emails show University of California, Berkeley officials did not initially object to the use of batons on nonviolent protesters during a November 2011 demonstration that ignited a national outrage.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
An Orange a Day Keeps Stroke Away
02-24-2012
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By Crystal Phend
A compound found in oranges, grapefruit, and other citrus fruit may modestly reduce stroke risk among women, an observational study determined.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Energy
Oil rises to fresh 9-month high near $109 in Asia
02-24-2012
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By ALEX KENNEDY
Oil prices rose to a fresh nine-month high near $109 a barrel Friday in Asia amid signs the U.S. economy is improving against a backdrop of elevated tensions in the Middle East over Iran's nuclear program.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - International
RBS says pay row "damaging" as losses mount
02-24-2012
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By Sudip Kar-Gupta
State-owned Royal Bank of Scotland paid out nearly a billion pounds in bonuses to staff for last year despite posting a fourth-quarter loss of nearly 2 billion pounds
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Wall St rises, nearing 4-year highs
02-24-2012
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By Rodrigo Campos
Wall Street stocks rose on Thursday after data showed the U.S. labor market remained on the mend,
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Employment & Jobs
Unemployment aid applications stay at 4-year low
02-24-2012
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By CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER
The number of people seeking unemployment aid was unchanged last week and the four-week average of applications fell to its lowest point in four years.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Activism
Actress Lucy Lawless climbs oil-drilling ship
02-24-2012
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By NICK PERRY
Television actress Lucy Lawless climbed aboard an oil-drilling ship Friday in New Zealand, joining six Greenpeace activists to try to stop the vessel from setting off for the Arctic.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
AIG posts huge 4th-quarter profit on tax benefit
02-24-2012
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By Ben Berkowitz
Bailed-out insurer American International Group reported a $19.8 billion profit for the fourth quarter
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Food
Lab-grown meat is first step to artificial hamburger
02-24-2012
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By Pallab Ghosh
Dutch scientists have used stem cells to create strips of muscle tissue with the aim of producing the first lab-grown hamburger later this year.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Romney pounces on Santorum's Senate compromises
02-24-2012
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By KASIE HUNT and CHARLES BABINGTON
One day after a feisty debate, Mitt Romney criticized Republican rival Rick Santorum and courted tea party voters Thursday in a pair of primary states separated by nearly 2,000 miles.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Poll: Millionaire tax popular, spending cuts too
02-24-2012
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By ALAN FRAM
Most people like President Barack Obama's proposal to make millionaires pay a significant share of their incomes in taxes.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Obama Administration
Higher gas prices cloud Obama's re-election hopes
02-24-2012
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By TOM RAUM
Soaring gasoline prices are threatening to undercut President Barack Obama's re-election prospects and offering Republicans an easy target.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • World News
Chavez to head to Cuba for new surgery
02-24-2012
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Aljazeera
Venezuela's ailing socialist president, Hugo Chavez, will fly to Cuba for an unknown period to undergo new cancer surgery that has shaken the South American nation before an October presidential election.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • World News
Disabled Bolivians clash with riot police
02-24-2012
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Aljazeera
Scuffles outside parliament in La Paz as disabled protesters call for government to pay them an annual subsidy.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Government
Closing Time: Postal Service May Cut 35,000 Jobs
02-24-2012
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by Eyder Peralta
Facing a financial crisis, the United States Postal Service announced that 223 processing facilities have been "found feasible for consolidation, all or in part."
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Sexuality: Sex and the Law
Maryland Passes Bill To Legalize Gay Marriage
02-24-2012
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by The Associated Press
Gay marriage is all but legalized in Maryland after the legislature gave its final OK Thursday to the law that's being sent to Gov. Martin O'Malley, who said he expects to sign it sometime this week.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
For Loyalists, Is It Ron Paul Or Nothing?
02-24-2012
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by Scott Neuman
Benom Plumb, a 31-year-old music industry executive from Nashville, thinks the country is on the wrong path, and that Ron Paul is the only candidate who can turn things around.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Military
Justice US-style: ‘Obama has already announced Manning is guilty’
02-24-2012
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RT
US Army analyst Bradley Manning, who is accused of leaking thousands of “classified” documents to WikiLeaks
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Misinformation
Mainscream: US media Iran hysteria
02-24-2012
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RT
Americans perceive Iran as Evil #1 on the planet, the latest Gallup poll shows. Since neither the US military nor intelligence believes Iran could strike America, why do the US media whip up hysteria about Iran, some 10,000 kilometers away?
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Obama Administration
Families of slaughtered children to sue the CIA
02-24-2012
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RT
President Barack Obama condoned America’s drone program last month, dismissing allegations that it's caused more harm than good.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Israel
Israel Faces New Hunger Striker After Reneging on Prisoner Swap
02-24-2012
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by Jason Ditz
Israeli officials were likely hoping that their policy of detention without charges would stop being a topic of discussion after Khader Adnan ended his hunger strike earlier this week.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
Clinton: Syria Rebels to Find Arms ‘Somewhere’
02-24-2012
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by Jason Ditz
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said she believed that the Syrian rebels would be able to arm themselves better in the future
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Police State
Hypocrisy and Syria
02-18-2012
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ALEXANDER COCKBURN, Counterpunch
The last time the United States faced serious internal dissent was in the 1960s and early 1970s, from war resisters and black and Native American movements.The government responded instantly with violent repression, including a well-documented assass
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News Link • Surveillance
Obama admin defends killing American terrorists [OK for US, not OK for Syria!]
02-23-2012
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Pam Benson, CNN
The targeted killing of those suspected of engaging in terrorist activities against the United States, including American citizens, is justified and legal, according to the Defense Department's chief lawyer.
Johnson reiterated Koh's assessment that
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Spray on Antennas
02-24-2012
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arclein
The spray-on antenna was originally conceived when Chamtech was contacted by the US Military to help them create a conforming antenna for special ops since traditional antenna systems were bulky and hard to hide from the enemy. Chamtech came up with
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robert klein
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News Link • Agriculture
Root Structures Finely Mapped
02-24-2012
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arclein
This allows the software to differentiate between root and water or organic elements in the soil much more effectively than previous techniques. The detailed accurate root architecture can then be seen in three dimensions
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robert klein
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News Link • Science
NASA Maps Tree Height
02-24-2012
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arclein
"Knowing the height of Earth's forests is critical to estimating their biomass, or the amount of carbon they contain," said lead researcher Marc Simard of JPL. "Our map can be used to improve global efforts to monitor carbon. In addition, forest
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robert klein
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News Link • Science
Wire Glitch on Speed of Light?
02-24-2012
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arclein
Now it seems Einstein's reputation has been restored after a source close to the experiment told the US journal Science Insider that "A bad connection between a GPS unit and a computer may be to blame."
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robert klein
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News Link • Iran
Iran Court Convicts Christian Pastor Convert to Death
02-23-2012
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Fox News
A trial court in Iran has issued its final verdict, ordering a Christian pastor to be put to death for leaving Islam and converting to Christianity, according to sources close to the pastor and his legal team.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Philosophy: Anarchism
Lysander Spooner, Neo-Confederate
02-23-2012
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Lew Rockwell blog
"The principle, on which the war was waged by the North, was simply this: That men may rightfully be compelled to submit to, and support, a government that they do not want; and that resistance, on their part, makes them traitors and criminals."
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Bullhead City man arrested for keeping a raccoon
02-23-2012
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AP
A Bullhead City man found out this week that keeping a raccoon as a pet is against the law. Arizona Game and Fish Department officers along with members of the Bullhead City Police Department arrested 57-year-old Stan Morris Wednesday after learning
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • MEDIA BLOG REFERENCES
Could America's Farmers and Ranchers Face a Rhodesian Future?
02-23-2012
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James Wesley, Rawles - SurvivalBlog.com
I envision one possible future for America that is fairly bleak, at least in the short term. If the economy deteriorates the way that I anticipate, and if the power grids ever collapse, then it could trigger that dreaded "worst case" situation.
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