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Date Sent: 2012-04-13
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, April 13, 2012 PM edition |
Judge Allows CIA, FBI Secrecy on Rendition -- Greece Using A Barter System In Lieu Of The Euro
SCHOOL SUCKS: The American Way -- A Weekend with John Taylor Gatto
(VIDEOS) -- 4 Reasons We Won't See A Repeat Of Last Fall In Europe -- FORMER IDENTITY THIEF: We Sent Meth Addicts To Steal Mail From Senior Citizens --
Obama Is Slammed For 'Jetting Around' On Vacation And Being Out Of
Touch -- My Husband Is A Fortune 500 CEO, And I Know Just As Much About
The Economy As He Does -- AMAZING: Details Of Cory Booker's Rescue Of A
Woman From A Burning Building Last Night -- RECRUITER: 'I'll Make 250k This Year, While You're Unemployed LOL' -- How The Billboard Industry Secretly Poisons And Kills Roadside Trees
-- President Obama Just Released His Tax Returns -- MARKETS TUMBLING:
DOW OFF 100 -- Sarkozy's Lied About Visiting Fukushima After The Japan's
Nuclear Disaster -- This New $7 Billion Warship Is Part Of The US Response To China's Military Buildup --
SPAIN IS DOWN OVER 3%, ITALY IS OFF 2.7% -- Yesterday's North Korea
Missile Failure Could Spell Big Trouble For Kim Jong Un -- As The Bo
Xilai Scandal Continues, Everyone Is Starting To Look At His Playboy Son
-- Ron Paul Is IN IT TO WIN IT! Let’s Show Our Support on April 15 --
Karzai: Early Elections Possible -- South Yemen Fighting Spreads: 177
Killed So Far -- Syria’s Fragile Ceasefire Continues to Hold -- Obama Threatens More Iran Sanctions -- Most Americans back gun lobby, right to use deadly force -- 20-Year Veteran Pleads Guilty to Act of Civil Disobedience -- Pakistan Calls for End to US Interventionism -- Suspect in NH police chief killing dead -- Police fired more than 90 rounds at unarmed man on freeway -- Harvard Law prof.: Charges against Zimmerman won’t hold up -- Slouching Toward Washington -- Wisc. Democrats mount legal challenge against fake recall candidates
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News Link • Secret Government Projects
Judge Allows CIA, FBI Secrecy on Rendition
04-13-2012
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http://news.antiwar.com, by John Glaser
A British group seeking information on US-UK rendition says the decision is not for national security, but do avoid embarrassment
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • European Union
Greece Is Using A Bartering System In Lieu Of The Euro
04-13-2012
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http://govtslaves.info, Mark Lowen
As Greece wonders whether its debt crisis will eventually spell its exit from the euro, one town, Volos, has formed an alternative local currency.
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
SCHOOL SUCKS: The American Way
04-13-2012
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www.youtube.com
Don't let the title fool you. This video is actually about how government-run schooling contributed to the rise of socialism, imperialism and eventually fascism in Germany between the 1890s and 1940s.
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Reported by:
Donna Hancock
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
A Weekend with John Taylor Gatto (VIDEOS)
04-13-2012
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www.youtube.com
Gatto argues that educational strategies promoted by government and industry leaders for over a century included the creation of a system that keeps real power in the hands of very few people.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • European Union
4 Reasons We Won't See A Repeat Of Last Fall In Europe
04-13-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Simone Foxman
Goldman Sach's Francisco Garzarelli writes that four things have him convinced that Europe will not fall back into the crisis environment it saw between August and December of last year
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Reported by:
Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Identity Theft
FORMER IDENTITY THIEF: We Sent Meth Addicts To Steal Mail From Senior Citizens
04-13-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Jill Krasny
Identity theft is freaking everyone out these days and for very good reason...
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
My Husband Is A Fortune 500 CEO, And I Know Just As Much About The Economy As He Does
04-13-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Jaywon Choe
The response to Democratic advisor Hilary Rosen's comments about Ann Romney has been swift and damning.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Heroes
AMAZING: Details Of Cory Booker's Rescue Of A Woman From A Burning Building Last Night
04-13-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Julia La Roche
Newark's mayor Cory Booker is being considered a hero this morning after rescuing a woman last night who was trapped in a house engulfed in flames.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • History
An Incredible Return To Ground Zero Of The Chernobyl Disaster
04-13-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Jana Kasperkevic
Three years ago, Timm Suess had the opportunity to visit what he calls "ground zero of the 1986 accident"
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Employment & Jobs
RECRUITER: 'I'll Make 250k This Year, While You're Unemployed LOL'
04-13-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Emma Carmichael
A man we'll call Robert has a profile on the employment website Monster.com, and earlier today he received a message from a recruiter about a job in "beautiful Northwest Arkansas."
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Environment
How The Billboard Industry Secretly Poisons And Kills Roadside Trees
04-13-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Jim Edwards
A second worker at Lamar Advertising, one of the nation's largest provider of outdoor media, has admitted poisoning and chopping down trees that block its billboards
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Government
Sarkozy's Lied About Visiting Fukushima After The Japan's Nuclear Disaster
04-13-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Sanya Khetani
French President Nicolas Sarkozy will just not make things easy for himself.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Military
This New $7 Billion Warship Is Part Of The US Response To China's Military Buildup
04-13-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Robert Johnson
Looking a bit like an old Civil War Ironclad, the $7 billion DDG 1000 USS Zumwalt will focus on land attacks, relying heavily on its advanced stealth technology to slip in close to shore before unleashing its massive onboard arsenal.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Military
Yesterday's North Korea Missile Failure Could Spell Big Trouble For Kim Jong Un
04-13-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Robert Johnson
After a lot of hype, and a complete disregard for treaties and global concern, North Korea's launched its long range missile yesterday and watched as it slammed into the Pacific about two minutes later.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Amazon benefits from antitrust case against Apple
04-13-2012
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http://rt.com
Amazon Inc is further strengthening its position in the e-book market as it announced plan to cut e-books’ prices, while Apple and five publishers fight charges over price fixing plot.
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • China
As The Bo Xilai Scandal Continues, Everyone Is Starting To Look At His Playboy Son
04-13-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Adam Taylor
The Bo Xilai scandal is ongoing, and a new figure has caught the public's imagination " his 24-year-old son, Bo Guagua.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Natural Disasters
Etna runs violent, hurls lava and ash into sky (VIDEO)
04-13-2012
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http://rt.com
Europe's highest and most active volcano, Mount Etna has erupted for the sixth time this year from a new crater on its south-eastern slope.
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
Chemical Warfare: The US Military's Pill Addiction
04-13-2012
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http://www.commondreams.org, by Robert C. Koehler
To fight our insane wars, we’re wrecking our soldiers’ ability to live with themselves and function in society.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Afghanistan
Karzai: Early Elections Possible
04-13-2012
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http://news.antiwar.com
At a news conference today, Afghan President Hamid Karzai raised the prospect of an early presidential election, saying the next vote could be held in 2013 instead of March 2014 as currently planned.
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Africa: On the Map
South Yemen Fighting Spreads: 177 Killed So Far
04-13-2012
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http://news.antiwar.com, by Jason Ditz
Both Sides Turn to Artillery Fire With Civilians Trapped in the Middle
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Syria
Syria’s Fragile Ceasefire Continues to Hold
04-13-2012
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http://news.antiwar.com,
The ceasefire which rebels were calling “doomed” last weekend officially began today, and so far it is holding
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama Threatens More Iran Sanctions
04-13-2012
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http://news.antiwar.com, by Jason Ditz
With the P5+1 talks set to begin this weekend, the Obama Administration is already looking to their inevitable failure, and threatening more sanctions against Iran as soon as the talks end.
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Gun Rights
Most Americans back gun lobby, right to use deadly force
04-13-2012
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Reuters
Most Americans support the right to use deadly force to protect themselves - even in public places - and have a favorable view of the National Rifle Association, the main gun-lobby group, a Reuters/Ipsos poll showed.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Activism
20-Year Veteran Pleads Guilty to Act of Civil Disobedience
04-12-2012
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ENEWSPF
She said, "I have come to understand that the actual majority will of the people is of little concern to those in power. We can demonstrate and petition and write letters until we are blue in the face, but those actions are virtually worthless. Our
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • World News
North Korea Missile Test Failed
04-13-2012
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http://news.antiwar.com, by John Glaser
The authoritarian state is weak and dysfunctional, but Obama's policy is making it more dangerous
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Military
Pakistan Calls for End to US Interventionism
04-13-2012
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http://news.antiwar.com, by John Glaser
Drone strikes, troop incursions, and supply routes for NATO, among other things, must stop
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Drug War
Suspect in NH police chief killing found dead
04-13-2012
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AP
A man suspected of killing a New Hampshire police chief and wounding 4 other officers was found dead along with a female acquaintance. The officers were part of the state attorney general's drug task force and were trying to serve a search warrant
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • European Union
27 Statistics About The European Economic Crisis That Are Almost Too Crazy To Believe
04-13-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, The Economic Collapse
The economic crisis in Europe continues to get worse and eventually it is going to unravel into a complete economic nightmare.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Police fired more than 90 rounds at man on 101 Freeway
04-13-2012
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Los Angeles Times
Eight Los Angeles police officers fired more than 90 rounds at an unarmed 19-year-old man who had led them on a high speed freeway pursuit and called 911 to threaten them with a gun. [ummm, did any hit him?]
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Activism
Evicted From Park, Occupy Protesters Take to Sidewalks
04-13-2012
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http://www.nytimes.com, By COLIN MOYNIHAN
The protesters arrived on Wall Street on Wednesday night carrying bedrolls, quilts and blankets.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Harvard Law prof.: Charges against Zimmerman won’t hold up
04-13-2012
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MSNBC (video)
Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz discusses the second-degree murder charges against George Zimmerman for Trayvon Martin’s death, and says the affidavit is “thin” and leaves out facts, and the charges won’t hold up in court.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Voting - Election Integrity
The Quiet Campaign: Voter Suppression
04-13-2012
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http://www.truthdig.com, By Richard Reeves
The 2012 presidential election is not only about who votes for Barack Obama and who votes for Mitt Romney. It is also about who votes.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Books
Slouching Toward Washington
04-13-2012
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http://www.truthdig.com, By Ebony Utley
“Branding Obamessiah: The Rise of an American Idol”
A book by Mark Edward Taylor
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Foreign Policy
North Korea’s $850 million rocket failure
04-13-2012
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CNN.com business producer, Kevin Voigt
Cost of Friday’s failed rocket launch by North Korea is estimated to be $850 million " nearly enough to feed 80% of the population of the impoverished nation for a year. .
The U.S. has already stopped planned shipments of 240,000 metric tons of food
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Welfare: Social
You’re on Your Own, Kids
04-13-2012
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http://www.truthdig.com, By Robert Scheer
Who will speak for the rights of the unborn now that Rick Santorum is gone from the race?
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Food
Seattle Creating Massive Edible Forest Filled with Free Food
04-13-2012
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http://wakeup-world.com, By Jill Ettinger
Taking the urban garden to the next level, Seattle, Washington has officially broken ground on a dedicated seven acre area of city land set to be converted into an “edible forest” that will produce free food for the city’s residents and visitors, hum
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Employment & Jobs
Explosive: Monsanto ‘Knowingly Poisoned Workers’ Causing Devastating Birth Defects
04-13-2012
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http://wakeup-world.com, By Anthony Gucciardi
In a developing news piece just unleashed by a courthouse news wire, Monsanto is being brought to court by dozens of Argentinean tobacco farmers who say that the biotech giant knowingly poisoned them with herbicides and pesticides and subsequently ca
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Political Parties
Wisc. Democrats mount legal challenge against fake recall candidates
04-13-2012
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http://www.rawstory.com, By Eric W. Dolan
Democrats in Wisconsin on Thursday demanded that election officials disqualify fake candidates running in recall primary elections this spring, according to the Associated Press.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • European Union
The Unsolved Euro Crisis
04-13-2012
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http://dailyreckoning.com
The Euro crisis is not “solved.” Not by a long shot. Yet Bloomberg reports this morning (i,e, March 2nd) that European leaders “declared a turning point in the Greece-fueled debt crisis.”
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Robert Lee
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
24 Facts About Taxes In The United States, That Will Blow Your Mind
04-13-2012
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http://govtslaves.info, Economic Collapse Blog
The U.S. tax code is a complete and utter abomination and it needs to be thrown out entirely. Nobody in their right mind would ever read the whole thing " it is over 3 million words long
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Study: Autism Linked to Industrial Food, Environment
04-13-2012
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http://govtslaves.info
A new study by Clinical Epigenetics, a peer-reviewed journal that focuses largely on diseases, has found that the rise in autism in the United States could be linked to the industrial food system, specifically the prevalence of high-fructose corn syr
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Science
Antarctic Cold Deep Shrinking for Decades
04-13-2012
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arclein
Antarctic Bottom Water is formed in a few distinct locations around Antarctica, where seawater is cooled by the overlying air and made saltier by ice formation. The dense water then sinks to the sea floor and spreads northward, filling most of the de
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robert klein
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News Link • Science
Isotope Correction Resets Dates in Solar System
04-13-2012
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arclein
The new value patches some holes in current understanding, according to Paul. "The new time scale now matches up with a recent, precise dating taken from a lunar rock, and is in better agreement with dates obtained with other chronometers," Paul sa
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robert klein
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News Link • Geology
Deep Copper
04-13-2012
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arclein
"Both the building blocks for continents and the continental crust itself, dating back as much as 3 billion years, are highly depleted in copper."
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robert klein
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News Link • Agriculture
800 Year Old Farming Technique Key to Amazon
04-13-2012
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arclein
h involved constructing small agricultural mounds with wooden tools. These raised fields provided better drainage, soil aeration and moisture retention: ideal for an environment that experiences both drought and flooding. The fields also benefited fr
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robert klein
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News Link • TERRORISM
The War on Terror: How it is Affecting Our Politics and Society Today
03-04-2012
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S. Paul Forrest
Events were the beginning of not only our National march toward an offense-oriented military policy abroad and a police state at home but the surge of Christian Reconstructionism as well, introducing a Constitution-crushing march toward the militaris
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Does The Case Against John Edwards Go Too Far?
04-12-2012
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http://www.npr.org, by Carrie Johnson
Prospective jurors head to court in North Carolina on Thursday to find out whether they'll be chosen to sit in judgment of former U.S. Sen. John Edwards.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Activism
UC Davis Pepper Spray Report Released: Campus Police Force 'Very Dysfunctional'
04-12-2012
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http://www.commondreams.org, Common Dreams staff
Pepper spraying incident 'should and could have been prevented'
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Privacy Rights
This Internet provider pledges to put your privacy first. Always.
04-12-2012
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CNET News
Step aside, AT&T and Verizon. A new privacy-protecting Internet service and telephone provider still in the planning stages could become the ACLU's dream and the FBI's worst nightmare.
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Chip Saunders
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