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Date Sent: 2012-10-24
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Wednesday, October 24, 2012 AM edition |
Plan for hunting terrorists signals U.S. intends to keep adding names to kill lists
Rutherford Institute Calls on State Legislatures to
Protect Americans from Weaponized Police Spy Dro -- #StopNDAA: What
Obama and Romney didn’t touch on during the debate -- Study: Global
warming worse 1000 years ago -- Guantanamo court stalls over right to boycott -- Boy,
13, creates breakthrough solar technology -- Whistleblowing CIA
officer in torture case pleads guilty to a single charge --
Economy, jobs, debt: U.S. Senate candidates face off -- Sun
unleashes intense X-class flare; active sunspot region rotating
towards Earth -- Tribute to Russell Means + Documentary -- 7 of 10 Asian Countries abandon U.S. dollar for Chinese Yuan now --
Can Andrea Rossi's Infinite-Energy Black Box Power The World--Or
Just Scam It? -- A Bandwidth Breakthrough -- Private Space Taxi
Builders On Track to Launch Astronauts Soon -- TSA Opt Out
Campaign Goes Viral! -- US Blasts Syrian Govt. Because Rebels
Attacked Jordanian Troops -- Philip Giraldi Discusses The
Upcoming Session On Christian Zionism And Islamophobia -- Watch A
Humanoid Robot Walk A Tightrope -- Coal-Eating Microbes Might Create
Vast Amounts of Natural Gas -- Jeff Bezos' Secretive Spaceship
Project Tests Rocket Escape System -- Obama administration is
persecuting government whistleblowers -- Israel Wages War on
Human Rights
AZ: Fruit Trees 4 Community offered by Garden Pool -
Deadline for orders is November the 10th
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News Link • Obama Administration
Plan for hunting terrorists signals U.S. intends to keep adding names to kill lists
10-23-2012
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Washington Post
U.S. officials said the database is designed to go beyond existing kill lists, mapping plans for the “disposition” of suspects beyond the reach of American drones.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
Rutherford Institute Calls on State Legislatures to Protect Americans from Weaponized Police Spy Dro
10-23-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
The Rutherford Institute’s letter to the state legislatures, model drone legislation and companion fact sheet are available at www.rutherford.org.
“These drones"aerial, robotic threats to privacy and security"are being unleashed on the American po
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Police State
#StopNDAA " What Obama and Romney didn’t touch on during the debate
10-23-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
The defense bill that lets the government indefinitely detain any US citizen without charge or trial wasn’t mentioned once during the three presidential debates, but that didn’t stop activists from sounding off: #StopNDAA went worldwide Monday night.
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Environment
Study: Global warming worse 1000 years ago
10-23-2012
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Terrence Aym
Since 2008, the federal government has spent more than $72 billion to fight something that more and more experts claim doesn't even exist: Anthropogenic global warming (AGW), also known as man-made global warming and man-made climate change.
A
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Terrence Aym
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Guantanamo court stalls over right to boycott
10-23-2012
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AP
A dispute over whether a defendant must be present during a military tribunal brought proceedings to a halt in the case of a Guantanamo prisoner accused in the attack on the Navy destroyer the USS Cole.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Energy
Boy, 13, creates breakthrough solar technology
10-23-2012
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Terrence Aym
Technological breakthroughs in communications, energy, bio-medicine and physics continues at a dizzying pace. And for those that worry (including some in the federal government) that the U.S. may lose its technological leadership in the future, the y
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Terrence Aym
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Whistleblowing CIA officer in torture case pleads guilty to a single charge
10-23-2012
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Washington Post
The plea deal comes just months after the department announced that it was closing its investigation of the murders of prisoners in CIA custody without bringing a single charge.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Voting and Elections
Economy, jobs, debt: U.S. Senate candidates face off
10-23-2012
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KGUN
“My personal positions on things really aren't relevant,” Victor said. “In a political context, I support the notion that Americans have a right to both define and pursue their own happiness and that it's the role of government, simply, to just prote
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Mike Wasdin
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Sun unleashes intense X-class flare; active sunspot region rotating towards Earth
10-23-2012
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Washington Post
The sun belted out the most powerful type of solar flare Monday night, known as an X-class flare (the weaker flare classes are M-class, medium-sized, and C-class, small-sized). It was the latest in a flurry of 4 flares hurled out by the sun
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
Tribute to Russell Means + Documentary
10-23-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Means joined the American Indian Movement in 1968, and was involved in numerous protests. Unlike the majority of AIM activists, Means was a libertarian. He came second in the 1987 Libertarian Nomination process, to none other than Ron Paul. In Januar
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Currencies
7 of 10 Asian Countries abandon U.S. dollar for Chinese Yuan now
10-23-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
7 of 10 Asian Countries have now pegged their currency to the Chinese Yuan instead of the U.S. dollar now.
It is estimated by 2015 the Yuan/Renminbi will be a currency traded fully and internationally.
With all the unlimited printing of the do
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Energy
Can Andrea Rossi's Infinite-Energy Black Box Power The World--Or Just Scam It?
10-23-2012
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http://www.popsci.com, By Steve Featherstone
Rossi--a lone Italian inventor with no real credentials and a history as a convicted scam artist--has convinced a small army of researchers that his box can harness a new type of nuclear reaction. What if they're right?
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Internet
A Bandwidth Breakthrough
10-23-2012
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http://www.technologyreview.com, David Talbot
A dash of algebra on wireless networks promises to boost bandwidth tenfold, without new infrastructure.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Incredibly Small: Best Microscope Photos of the Year
10-23-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By Betsy Mason
Every year for nearly four decades, Nikon has received hundreds of entries in its Small World microscope photography contest.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Private Space Taxi Builders On Track to Launch Astronauts Soon
10-23-2012
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http://www.space.com, by Clara Moskowitz
Representatives from the three different companies chosen by NASA to develop private space taxis to carry astronauts to orbit say their vehicles are making substantial progress toward launching people into orbit within the next few years.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Homeland Security
TSA Opt Out Campaign Goes Viral!
10-23-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com
Infowars’ Opt Out Campaign is picking up pace ahead of Thanksgiving.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
NYPD paid informant to ‘bait’ Muslims and spy on mosques
10-23-2012
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Rawstory
An American of Bengali descent says the NYPD paid him to spy on mosques and “bait” Muslims into talking about jihad and terrorism. He agreed facing several misdemeanor arrests for marijuana would result in serious legal consequences..
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Here's The Spaceship That Will Let Rich People Fly From NYC To Tokyo In 90 Minutes
10-22-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Alex Davies
Since the last flight of the Concorde in 2003, supersonic travel has been the province of jet fighter pilots and Felix Baumgartner.
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News Link • Syria
US Blasts Syrian Govt. Because Rebels Attacked Jordanian Troops
10-23-2012
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http://news.antiwar.com, by Jason Ditz
With sectarian spillover from the Syrian Civil War continuing to boil over in Lebanon over the weekend, Syrian rebel fighters attacked a group of Jordanian troops along the border, killing one and suggesting that yet another nation bordering Syria is
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Racism
Philip Giraldi Discusses The Upcoming Session On Christian Zionism And Islamophobia
10-23-2012
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http://scotthorton.org, Philip Giraldi
Philip Giraldi, executive director of the Council for the National Interest, discusses the upcoming session on Christian Zionism and Islamophobia in Washington D.C. on October 24th
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Energy
Coal-Eating Microbes Might Create Vast Amounts of Natural Gas
10-23-2012
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http://www.technologyreview.com, Kevin Bullis
Companies are demonstrating a novel way to turn inaccessible coal into usable fuel.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Jeff Bezos' Secretive Spaceship Project Tests Rocket Escape System
10-23-2012
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http://www.space.com,
The private spaceflight firm owned by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos launched a suborbital crew capsule on Friday (Oct. 20), a major rocket escape system test that brings the secretive company a huge step closer to carrying astronauts.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Photos: Glimpses of Secretive Blue Origin's Private Spaceships
10-23-2012
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http://www.space.com
Blue Origin’s pusher escape system rockets the Crew Capsule away from the launch pad, demonstrating a key safety system for both suborbital and orbital flights.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama administration is persecuting government whistleblowers
10-23-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, J. D. Heyes
When he was an attorney and U.S. senator, Barack Obama established a record of pushing for stronger protections for whistleblowers " generally defined as someone who tells the public or someone in authority about alleged improper or illegal activity
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
More Entrapment that is of course 'not entrapment'
10-23-2012
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Lew Rockwell blog
Here’s yet another fake “crime” that the Feds ginned up: two “workers” at Houston’s airport agreed to smuggle heroin onto international flights after “undercover investigators” suborned them.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Female Student Drops Cake. Assaulted by School Security
10-23-2012
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Lew Rockwell blog
A bully security guard with bad boy-style shaved head pounced on a skinny, young girl in a school cafeteria in Palmdale, CA. The girl had committed a crime by dropping a piece of cake on the floor. She cleaned it up, but a security guard repeatedly b
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
Silver Circle Announces First Screening at Silver Summit Thurs, Oct 25th, 2012 6:30 p.m. (PST)
10-23-2012
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www.silvercirclemovie.com
Silver Circle is an animated dystopian thriller, set after an inflationary economic crash in 2019, which pits a group of rebels, who have created their own silver currency as a solution to the crisis, against an out-of-control Federal Reserve.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Cyberspace and the New Economy
SOPA? CISPA? WHATEVER. THE GOVERNMENT’S LONG TERM STRATEGY IS NSTIC
10-23-2012
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Associates Mind at reddit
We've seen Congress legislation of the week is SOPA, PIPA, CISPA, the Executive Orders and now the UN's run on "cyberterrorism". Those creative distratctions are all leading away from the mother of Brave New World longterm strategy seated.
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Sheila Dean
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Dow Drops 250 After Earnings, DuPont Skids 9%
10-23-2012
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CNBC
Stocks traded near session lows Tuesday, with the Dow down nearly 250 points, following a batch of disappointing quarterly results and amid worries over Spain's economy. The Dow and S&P 500 are seeing their worst one-day drop since June.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Arizona ballot measure contests ownership of the Grand Canyon
10-23-2012
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Reuters
Proposition 120 would amend the state's constitution to declare Arizona's sovereignty and jurisdiction over the "air, water, public lands, minerals, wildlife and other natural resources within the state's boundaries."
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Charges Dropped Against Man Seen Beaten by Police in Video
10-22-2012
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New York Times
The Brooklyn district attorney, Charles J. Hynes, dropped all criminal charges on Monday against a young man whose arrest inside a Jewish community center in Brooklyn led to allegations of police brutality.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Italy Orders Jail Terms For 7 Who Didn’t Warn Of Deadly Earthquake
10-22-2012
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New York Times
7 prominent Italian earthquake experts were convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to 6 years in prison for failing to give adequate warning to the residents of a seismically active area in the months preceding an earthquake that killed more than 30
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
FBI releases documents that confirm they spy on anarchists
10-22-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
On Thursday, legal documents intended to be cloaked indefinitely were accidently unsealed in US District Court in Seattle for a moment, finally offering a small bit of insight as to why the FBI has been targeting adherents to a specific ideology and
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Chris Menke
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Reference Link • Gulf Oil Spill
Are Louisiana’s Coastal Areas Going To Be Evacuated?
www.thecommonsenseshow.com
The conditions in the Gulf Coast region are so bad, that some are actually talking about a mass evacuation of the coastal regions in Louisiana. Others think the potential devastation is so dangerous that the entire Gulf Coast region should be evacua
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News Link • Biofuel
Artificial Photosynthesis Effort Takes Root
10-22-2012
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http://www.technologyreview.com, Kevin Bullis
$122 million innovation hub could speed the development of devices for making fuel from water and sunlight.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Drug War
Narquitectura: Inside the Fortified Palaces of Mexico’s Drug Lords
10-22-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By Robert Beckhusen
A gangster lives a fast, dangerous life " especially Mexico's brutal narco-chieftains.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Inventions
DIY Laser Cutter Raises Capital, Concerns
10-22-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By Joseph Flaherty
These are great days for makers. Affordable 3-D printers and CNC mills are popping up everywhere, opening up new worlds of production to wide ranges of designers.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Philosophy: Socialism
If You Had Actually Grown Up In A Soviet Country, This Is What You Would Have Experienced
10-22-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Rob Wile
I grew up in a socialist country. And I have seen what that does to people. There is no hope, no freedom. No pride in achievement.
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News Link • Housing
GARY SHILLING: A Housing Recovery? You've Got To Be Kidding Me
10-22-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Henry Blodget
Housing data this week continue to point to a market recovery.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
GARY SHILLING: It Doesn't Matter Who Wins -- The Economy's Screwed Either Way
10-22-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Henry Blodget
We had Gary Shilling on DailyTicker last week. No matter who wins the presidential election in two weeks, he's not optimistic about the near-term outlook for the economy...
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News Link • Afghanistan
US Soldiers Guarding the Poppy Fields in Afghanistan for the CIA
10-22-2012
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http://www.project.nsearch.com, by Glenn Canady
US Soldiers Guarding the Poppy Fields in Afghanistan for the CIA
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News Link • Internet
Ron Paul's Texas Straight Talk 10/22/12: Internet Freedom is Vital for Human Freedom
10-22-2012
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by legalizeliberty
Ron Paul's Texas Straight Talk 10/22/12: Internet Freedom is Vital for Human Freedom
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News Link • Government
Deciding the Future of Puerto Rico
10-21-2012
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Free Press Publications
Voters in Puerto Rico are preparing to reconsider the island’s relationship with the federal government. This is the first time since 1998 that voters have been asked to reconsider the fate of the island territory.
No matter what the results of th
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Darryl W. Perry
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Reference Link • Food
Prop 37 and Food Supply Safety
www.thecommonsenseshow.com
Barb Peterson (farmwars.info) as she and Dave discuss the labeling of GMO’s and the controversial Prop 37, which is on the ballot this November. If passed, GMO’s would have to be labeled
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