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Date Sent: 2012-08-07
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Tuesday, August 7, 2012 AM edition |
Police use Taser on deaf crime victim -- New York Times complains NYPD assaulted a photographer
Robot Learns to Pick the Sweetest, Ripest Strawberries -- Louisiana charter school kicks pregnant students out of class -- Rep. Kucinich proposes warning labels for cell phones -- Obama slams Romney as ‘Robin Hood in reverse’ -- Sikhs say attacks on community are ‘collateral damage’ of 9/11 -- Pfizer, Johnson drop tests for new Alzheimer drug -- How Automakers Use the Brooklyn Bridge to Test Driver Assistance
Systems -- Temple Attack Shows Jihadis Aren’t the Only Terrorists --
Assad Strikes Oil Deal to Keep War Machine Moving -- How Apple
and Amazon Security Flaws Led to My Epic Hacking -- DSM-V To
Rename Gender Identity Disorder 'Gender Dysphoria' -- You Don't
Want the New U.S. Customs Robot to Find You Suspicious --
White House sidesteps raging Romney tax returns battle -- Hiroshima
marks anniversary of atomic bombing -- Wikipedia blackout caused by
accidental cable slice in Florida -- Another Tibetan
sets himself alight in China -- Missouri mosque destroyed in
suspicious fire -- Federal court denies ex-Illinois governor's
appeal -- Building Artificial Islands That Rise With the Sea
-- Proposed Privacy Law Demands Court Warrants for Cloud Data --
In the Olympics of Algorithms, a Russian Keeps Winning Gold -- Poorest
Americans at risk if states opt out of Medicaid expansion --
MSU to lead new global food security effort -- McDonald's Is Going
For American Fast Food's Last Unconquered Frontier
Freedom's Phoenix Digital Magazine - READY FOR DOWNLOAD
- August 2012 Edition
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Police use Taser on deaf crime victim
08-06-2012
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kirotv
Responding to a call from a deaf woman about an attacker, police arrived on the scene and Tasered a the woman who had placed the call instead of the attacker. They then threw her in a cage without a translator and kept her there for 60 hours.
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News Link • Police State
New York Times complains NYPD assaulted a photographer
08-06-2012
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Josh Halliday, The Guardian
The New York Times has complained to the city’s police department after one of its photographers said he was assaulted by officers who arrested him on Saturday.
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Scientists unravel ‘other’ malaria parasite’s DNA code
08-06-2012
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The Raw Story.com
Scientists said Sunday they had unraveled the genetic codes of parasites responsible for the bulk of malaria cases outside Africa, and found they were scarily diversified and may be harder to kill.
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News Link • Food
Taiwan wants to settle U.S. beef on imports
08-06-2012
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The Raw Story.com
Taiwan’s President Ma Ying-jeou Monday called for the resumption of stalled trade talks with the United States after the island recently lifted a six-year-old ban on some U.S. beef imports.
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News Link • Robots and Artificial Intelligence
Robot Learns to Pick the Sweetest, Ripest Strawberries
08-06-2012
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Rachel Gross via WIRED.com
Richard Dudley imagines a world where strawberries grow in perfect rows and every day a robot army tastes their colors before harvesting the ripe ones. No, that isn’t LSD talking.
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Opinion • Conspiracies
A Lie That Deserves to Die
08-06-2012
Mike Renzulli
The USS Liberty incident should serve as a reminder not only of the tragedies war but that the truth, and not conspiratorial lies, should prevail in terms of the details about actual events.
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama slams Romney as ‘Robin Hood in reverse’
08-06-2012
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The Raw Story.com
US President Barack Obama joked Monday that his election foe Mitt Romney’s tax plans would rob from the middle class to help the rich " “like Robin Hood in reverse.”
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News Link • 911 / World Trade Center
Sikhs say attacks on community are ‘collateral damage’ of 9/11
08-06-2012
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Chris McGreal, The Guardian
Harjit Jeji Shergill would not go so far as to say there was an inevitability to the murder of six Sikh worshipers at his local temple, but after years of people venomously calling him “Bin Laden” he feared it might come to this somewhere in America.
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
Pfizer, Johnson drop tests for new Alzheimer drug
08-06-2012
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The Raw Story.com
Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson said Monday they had given up tests of a new therapy to treat Alzheimer’s disease, saying the treatment did not measure up to expectations.
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News Link • Energy
Fuel Cells Take to the Runway
08-06-2012
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Duncan Graham-Rowe via TechnologyReview.com
Airbus will test a system that could reduce fuel consumption by 15 percent.
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News Link • Transportation
How Automakers Use the Brooklyn Bridge to Test Driver Assistance Systems
08-06-2012
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Doug Newcomb via WIRED.com
Engineers look at bridges differently than the rest of us. When Jim Nickolaou, an engineer at GM working on advanced safety systems, looks at the Brooklyn Bridge, he admires the structure for its beauty and as a feat of engineering.
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News Link • TERRORISM
Temple Attack Shows Jihadis Aren’t the Only Terrorists
08-06-2012
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Spencer Ackerman via WIRED.com
The FBI is treating Sunday’s attack on a Sikh temple as a “possible act of domestic terrorism” " raising the possibility that the face of domestic terrorism in the United States looks different than the homegrown jihadism many have forecasted.
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News Link • Energy
Assad Strikes Oil Deal to Keep War Machine Moving
08-06-2012
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Robert Beckhusen via WIRED.com
The regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad is falling apart. Its prime minister has fled the country, and its military equipment is reportedly breaking down.
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
How Apple and Amazon Security Flaws Led to My Epic Hacking
08-06-2012
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Mat Honan via WIRED.com
In the space of one hour, my entire digital life was destroyed. First my Google account was taken over, then deleted. Next my Twitter account was compromised, and used as a platform to broadcast racist and homophobic messages
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News Link • Sexuality: Sex and the Law
DSM-V To Rename Gender Identity Disorder 'Gender Dysphoria'
07-23-2012
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The Advocate
The newest edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or DSM, will replace the diagnostic term “Gender Identity Disorder” with the term “Gender Dysphoria,” according to the Associated Press.
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News Link • Robots and Artificial Intelligence
You Don't Want the New U.S. Customs Robot to Find You Suspicious
08-06-2012
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Clay Dillow via PopSci.com
U.S Customs and Border Protection has a new hire on hand at its Nogales, Ariz., border crossing between the United States and Mexico. CBP has installed an avatar kiosk at the checkpoint to help quickly move persons
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News Link • Government
White House sidesteps raging Romney tax returns battle
08-06-2012
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The Raw Story.com
The White House on Monday refused to be drawn into a fierce row involving the top Senate Democrat Harry Reid, branded a “dirty liar” by Republicans for his accusations about Mitt Romney’s tax record.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Hiroshima marks anniversary of atomic bombing
08-06-2012
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The RawStory.com
A bell tolled to mark a moment of silence while people joined hands in prayer as tens of thousands marked the anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on Monday.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Wikipedia blackout caused by accidental cable slice in Florida
08-06-2012
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Josh Halliday, The Guardian
Wikipedia was inaccessible globally for a couple of hours on Monday after someone accidentally cut through fibre cables connecting its servers in Florida.
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News Link • World News
Another Tibetan sets himself alight in China
08-06-2012
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The RawStorry.com
A Tibetan man in southwest China set himself on fire Monday, the latest in a series of shocking protests against Chinese rule, an overseas human rights group said.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Missouri mosque destroyed in suspicious fire
08-06-2012
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David Edwards via RawStory.com
For the second time in about a month, a mosque in Joplin, Missouri caught fire on Monday, but this time it was burned to the ground.
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News Link • Corruption
Federal court denies ex-Illinois governor's appeal
08-06-2012
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AP
A federal court in Chicago denied George Ryan’s latest appeal seeking his release from prison, dashing what was widely regarded as the former Illinois governor’s last credible hope to cut short his 6 1/2-year sentence for corruption.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Building Artificial Islands That Rise With the Sea
08-06-2012
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http://www.popsci.com, By Katharine Gammon
With an average elevation of just five feet above sea level, the Maldives"a nation comprising 1,192 islands in the Indian Ocean"is the lowest country in the world. Sea level, meanwhile, has risen by about seven inches since 1900...
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
New Image Shows Mars Rover Curiosity Parachuting Toward Perfect Landing
08-06-2012
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http://www.popsci.com, By Rebecca Boyle
As the Mars rover Curiosity plummeted toward its landing on Mars last night, NASA's orbiters, the storied Odyssey orbiter and Reconnaissance Orbiter, were sailing overhead and watching its progress.
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News Link • Internet
Proposed Privacy Law Demands Court Warrants for Cloud Data
08-06-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By David Kravets
Two Democratic congressmen are proposing sweeping changes to a U.S. privacy law that for the first time would require the government to obtain a probable-cause warrant to access data stored in the cloud.
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News Link • Technology: Software
In the Olympics of Algorithms, a Russian Keeps Winning Gold
08-06-2012
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http://www.technologyreview.com, Tom Simonite
Google's Petr Mitrichev is the all-time champion of competitive programming, a little-known sport where tech giants scout for talent.
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News Link • Healthcare
Poorest Americans at risk if states opt out of Medicaid expansion
08-06-2012
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http://www.bio-medicine.org, Kathy Fackelmann
Health coverage for the poorest Americans could be in jeopardy in many states as a result of the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling last month on the Affordable Care Act, according to a new legal analysis.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Hormone May Boost Aging, Failing Brains
08-06-2012
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http://www.bio-medicine.org, HealthDay News
Treatment with growth hormone-releasing hormone improves memory and focus in healthy adults and in those who already show some signs of mental decline, new research finds.
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News Link • Food
MSU to lead new global food security effort
08-06-2012
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http://www.bio-medicine.org,
Michigan State University will use a $7.3 million federal grant to cultivate the next generation of agricultural scientists in Africa and Asia, in hopes of improving food security and nutrition there.
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News Link • Environment
Microbes, sponges, and worms add to coral reef woes
08-06-2012
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http://www.bio-medicine.org, John Delaney
Microbes, sponges, and wormsthe side effects of pollution and heavy fishingare adding insult to injury in Kenya's imperiled reef systems, according to a recent study by the Wildlife Conservation Society and the University of Azores.
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News Link • Animals and Pets
Forensic tools for catching poachers
08-06-2012
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http://www.bio-medicine.org, Susan Jongeneel
The trade in ivory was largely outlawed in 1989, but poaching continues and remains a serious threat to the African elephant.
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News Link • Pandemic
See How The 1918 Flu Pandemic Brought The World To Its Knees
08-06-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Noah Plaue
In 1918 the Spanish flu swept the globe, killing at least 50 million people worldwide. That's over three times as many deaths as in World War I.
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Apple Snuck A New Feature Onto The iPhone Today
08-06-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Steve Kovach
After all the hubbub surrounding Apple's decision to kill the YouTube app on the iPhone and iPad today, a lot of people missed what Apple added to the beta version of iOS 6, the company's next mobile operating system.
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News Link • Food
McDonald's Is Going For American Fast Food's Last Unconquered Frontier
08-06-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Kim Bhasin
McDonald's has blanketed America with its restaurants, but opening new locations isn't the only way the fast food superpower can grow.
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News Link • Energy
Propane Gel Fracking
08-06-2012
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arclein
According to an industry report, the project is focused on using a technology that pumps a thick gel made from propane into the ground as opposed to using traditional methods of hydraulic fracking that make use of a mixture of water, sand, and chemic
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News Link • Science
Breakthrough in Tunnel Barrier Technology
08-06-2012
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arclein
graphene-based magnetic tunnel junction, where a single atom thick layer of carbon atoms in a honeycomb lattice separates two magnetic metal films (cobalt and permalloy). The magnetizations of the films can be aligned parallel or antiparallel, result
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News Link • False Flag Operations
WI Eyewitness: "FOUR Men Opened Fire"
08-06-2012
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YouTube via Daily Paul
"...four white males, who were dressed darkly... uh... dressed in all black clothing, fired on the, uh, our congregation."
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Reference Link • General Opinion
The End Does Not Justify The Means
C. Smith blog
The unnecessary bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are more glaring examples...The truth is no evil action is justified by having a good end in mind. This is true for a nation, as it is for you as an individual.
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News Link • TERRORISM
Sikh Temple Shooter Named as Army Vet Wade Michael Page
08-06-2012
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The gunman who opened fire in a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wis., and killed six people has been identified as Army veteran Wade Michael Page, a PsyOp specialist. Page, 40, opened fire outside the temple before entering and killed 6 people.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Chemical Warfare: Agent Orange in Vietnam
08-06-2012
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Globalresearch, by Jeanne Mirer and Marjorie Cohn
AUGUST 10, 2012, AT NOON: 51 YEARS AFTER THE CHEMICAL WAR BEGAN IN VIETNAM, WE SHOULD BE SILENT IN MEMORY, THEN TAKE ACTION TO REMEDY
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News Link • Obama Administration
US, Israel arranging roles in Iran war theater?
08-06-2012
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http://www.rt.com
Reports are surfacing of a US-Israeli plan to attack Iran’s ballistic missile batteries, giving Israel extra space to tackle Syria and Hezbollah.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Justice for Chavis Carter
08-05-2012
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The Agitator
A breaking story this week from Jonesboro, Arkansas, concerns the death of 21 year old Chavis Carter, a black man who was shot to death while handcuffed in the back seat of a Jonesboro Police Department squad car.
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News Link • Iran
Iran TV airs confessions in murder of scientists
08-05-2012
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AP
Iranian state television broadcast purported confessions by more than a dozen suspects in connection with the killing of five nuclear scientists since 2010.
The broadcast showed some of the suspects re-enacting the assassinations in different distr
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News Link • Internet
After defeat of Senate cybersecurity bill, Obama weighs executive-order option
08-05-2012
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The Hill
Senate Republicans blocked cybersecurity legislation, but the issue might not be dead. The White House hasn't ruled out issuing an executive order to strengthen the nation's defenses against cyber attacks if Congress refuses to act.
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Reality Check: Do We Really Need To Audit The Federal Reserve?
08-05-2012
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youtube (h/t Lew Rockwell blog)
Ben Swann Reality Check takes a look at history and present activities of the Federal Reserve Bank and whether the Fed needs to be audited.
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News Link • Drug War
(Trailer) Make $$$ Selling Drugs Documentary Staring 50 Cent & Eminem
08-05-2012
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youtube (h/t Lew Rockwell blog)
Eminem and 50 Cent are among the people featured in an upcoming documentary entitled "How To Make Money Selling Drugs," which will premiere at the Toronto Film Festival on September 6th. Freeway Rick Ross is also featured in the clip.
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News Link • History
British Explorer Closes In On Legendary 'Treasure Of Lima'
08-05-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Jasper Copping
It eluded Franklin Roosevelt, Sir Malcolm Campbell and Errol Flynn, but now an explorer from Melton Mowbray could be on the trail of a multi-million-pound hoard of gold, silver and jewellery stolen by pirates and buried on a treasure island.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Economic Death Spiral
8-5-2012
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Free Press Publications
If I said an economist said that the American economy was heading into a “death spiral,” most people would likely think I was referring to Peter Schiff, Bob Murphy or someone from the Mises Institute. They would be wrong. Reuters reports Richard Dunc
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