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Date Sent: 2013-04-11
Freedom's Phoenix PM Edition for Thursday, April 11, 2013 |
Filibuster fails: Gun bill clears Senate hurdle -- Gun Law Drafted in Secret - by Alan Korwin
Highway patrol gave feds Missouri concealed weapon permit holder's data -- 420: Who Do These People Represent? - by Mark Victor -- Judge: Iowa State U. banned from releasing 'pink slime' data -- Drone war kills others not just al-Qaida -- HISTORIC LAWSUIT AGAINST
UN AGENDA 21 (Rosa Koire) -- 04-11-13 -- Mike Salvi (Mike Salvi's
World) - Megan Duffield - LISTEN LIVE on LRN.FM, M-F, 9-Noon -- Bicycle Reflectors Detect Bioterrorism -- Early Dinosaur Embryos Found in China -- IRS: We can read emails without warrant -- 3-D Printer Makes Customized Cookies -- Student-Built Car Gets 3,587 MPG in Competition -- EPA acknowledges releasing personal details on farmers -- Chinese Expert Warns 70% Chance of North Korean War -- MARYLAND GOVERNOR TAXES RAIN -- Is Facebook smartphone just a new way to collect data about you? -- American drivers still talk, text as much as ever despite laws
against it -- Social Security office forces 87-year-old blind woman to
sing for her $22 check -- Force-Fed UK Austerity -- Deplorable
Bahraini Human Rights Abuses Continue -- French Senate approves crucial
marriage equality measure -- The Truth About Cartels -- Major businesses call for climate change laws -- Florida bill designed to fight gambling scandal could cost state thousands of jobs -- Government foreclosure relief brings homeowners only $300 to $500 -- Atlanta gunman killed after holding fire fighters hostage -- FOIA documents suggest IRS may have ignored court ruling on email privacy -- Washington state suing florist who refused to supply gay wedding
AZ: Silver Circle at Pollack Tempe Cinemas - Showing TONIGHT, April 11th, 2013 -
Tempe, AZ -- Lincoln Day Dinner and Auction with Keynote Speaker, Sheriff Richard Mack, Apr. 13; Spring Party and a
chance to meet Cindy Sheehan at the Hancock's, Sat 4/20/13 @
4pm til ???
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News Link • Gun Rights
Gun bill clears Senate hurdle as filibuster falls short
04-11-2013
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AP
Controversial gun legislation cleared a key Senate hurdle Thursday, as lawmakers voted 68-31 to start debate on the package which includes expanded background checks and new penalties for gun trafficking.
Senate Democrats, joined by 16 Republican
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Feature Article • Gun Rights
Gun Law Drafted in Secret (Alan Korwin)
Donna Hancock
Two senators announced April 10, 2013 they have reached a "compromise" on so-called "universal background checks." This is a code word for universal gun registration. A press announcement and the wording of a long new gun law are not the same thing.
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News Link • Events: Arizona
Silver Circle Movie at Pollack Tempe Cinemas - April 11th, 2013 - Tempe, AZ
03-07-2013
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Silver Circle Movie
Liberty Coin and Precious Metals along with our friends at FreedomsPhoenix.com will be helping put on a one-night event to remember at the Pollack Cinema! We will have tickets available here, or pending the show isn't sold out, you can purchase your
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News Link • Gun Rights
Highway patrol gave feds Missouri concealed weapon permit holder's data
04-11-2013
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The Missouri State Highway Patrol has twice turned over the entire list of Missouri concealed weapon permit holders to federal authorities, most recently in January, Sen. Kurt Schaefer said.
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News Link • Marc Victor
Who Do These People Represent?
04-11-2013
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Marc J. Victor
When it comes to marijuana, some of our elected officials are confused about who they represent. When proposition 200 was passed in 1996, it deleted the prison option for first time marijuana users and mandated drug counseling instead. Despite the ob
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Mike Wasdin
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News Link • Food
Judge: Iowa State U. banned from releasing 'pink slime' data
04-11-2013
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AP
A judge has blocked Iowa State University from releasing documents about food safety research conducted for the beef-processing company that makes the product dubbed "pink slime" by critics.
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News Link • Energy
Alexandria Rising
04-11-2013
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arclein
For now, the gas is being pumped to mainland Israel, where it will feed the domestic market, but exports should begin in 2-3 years. What Israel has in mind is the European market, via a hoped-for undersea Mediterranean pipeline to Turkey, which has t
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News Link • Kids
Drone war kills others not just alQaida [Michelle:"even one step we can take to save another ch
04-11-2013
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Landay, McClatchy
News reports on the Sept. 8, 2008attack in Dandey Darapakhel said that among as many as 25 dead were an Arab who was chief of al Qaida’s operations in Pakistan, and 8 of Jalaluddin Haqqani’s grandchildren, one of his wives, two nieces and a sister.
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News Link • New World Order
HISTORIC LAWSUIT AGAINST UN AGENDA 21 (Rosa Koire)
04-11-2013
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Post Sustainability Institute
PLAN BAY AREA violates both the 5th and 14th amendments to the U.S. Constitution. The 5th amendment guarantees property owners the right to just compensation, and the 14th amendment guarantees equal protection.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Geology
Deep Magma Imaging
04-11-2013
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arclein
sing electromagnetic technology developed and advanced at Scripps, the researchers mapped a large area beneath the seafloor off Central America at the northern East Pacific Rise, a seafloor volcano located on a section of the global mid-ocean ridges
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Telomerase is Fully Mapped
04-11-2013
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arclein
The mapping of telomerase is an important discovery, because telomerase is one of the very basic enzymes in cell biology. It relengthens the telomeres so that they get the same length as before embarking on cell division.
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News Link • Climate Change
Lowest Wintertime Ice Maxima
04-11-2013
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arclein
The new maximum -5.82 million square miles (15.09 million square kilometers)- is in line with a continuing trend in declining winter Arctic sea ice extent: nine of the ten smallest recorded maximums have occurred during the last decade. The 2013 wint
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News Link • Employment & Jobs
Dan Ariely: What makes us feel good about our work?
04-11-2013
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ted.com
What motivates us to work? Contrary to conventional wisdom, it isn't just money. But it's not exactly joy either. It seems that most of us thrive by making constant progress and feeling a sense of purpose.
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
The Bizarre Libertarian/Christian Reconstructionist Alliance
04-11-2013
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Patheos Atheist Channel
Ron Paul has endorsed a homeschooling cirriculum in his name. It sounds innocent enough until you find out who the director of the program is and what he is all about.
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Twist in dark matter tale hints at shadow Milky Way
04-11-2013
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newscientist.com
THE HUNT for some of the most wanted stuff in the universe took a new twist this week with the first results from a high-profile, space-based dark matter detector.
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News Link • Climate Change
Climate Change: The Moral Choices
04-11-2013
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Technologyreview.com
The effects of global warming will persist for hundreds of years. What are our responsibilities and duties today to help safeguard the distant future? That is the question ethicists are now asking.
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News Link • Bioterrorism
Bicycle Reflectors Detect Bioterrorism
04-11-2013
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news.discovery.com
Those bright safety reflectors, aka “retroreflectors,” on sneakers, running apparel and bike fenders are taking on an illuminating new role: detecting bioterrorism threats and diagnosing everyday infectious diseases.
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News Link • Bill of Rights
IRS: We can read emails without warrant
04-11-2013
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http://thehill.com, By Brendan Sasso
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has claimed that agents do not need warrants to read people's emails, text messages and other private electronic communications, according to internal agency documents.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Transportation
Student-Built Car Gets 3,587 MPG in Competition
04-11-2013
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http://www.wired.com, By Keith Barry
A team of student engineers from a Canadian college have built a car that could get you from Caribou, ME to San Diego on a single gallon of gas.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Animals and Pets
EPA acknowledges releasing personal details on farmers, senator slams agency
04-11-2013
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http://www.foxnews.com, By Joseph Weber
The Environmental Protection Agency acknowledged Tuesday that it released personal information on potentially thousands of farmers and ranchers to environmental groups, following concerns from congressional Republicans and agriculture groups that the
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Entertainment: Television (TV)
Lorne Michaels, King of NBC at Last, Will Be Exec Producer of SNL, Tonight, and Late Night
04-11-2013
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http://www.showbiz411.com, Roger Friedman
With the recent news about Jimmy Fallon, Lorne Michaels solidifies his position as King of NBC.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
World's largest solar-powered boat returns to the oceans in the name of science
04-11-2013
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http://www.gizmag.com, By James Holloway
The MS Tûranor PlanetSolar, the world's largest solar-powered boat, took to the seas once more on Thursday " this time, in the name of science.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Energy
Windenergy convertor EWICON animation, TU Delft
04-11-2013
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http://www.youtube.com, tudelft
How does a "windmill" without mechanically moving parts work?
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Transportation
Students set sights on human-powered submarine speed record
04-11-2013
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http://www.gizmag.com, By James Holloway
Students at the University of Warwick have announced their intention to build a human-powered submarine to compete at that highlight of the human-powered submarine events calendar, the European International Submarine Races in 2014.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Chinese Expert Warns 70% Chance of North Korean War
04-11-2013
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worldordernews.com
One of China’s top experts on North Korean affairs warned yesterday of a better than 70 per cent chance of war on the Korean Peninsula as tensions continued to rise and South Korean and US forces More...
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News Link • TAXES: State
MARYLAND GOVERNOR TAXES RAIN
04-10-2013
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breitbart.com
Maryland Democratic Governor Martin O’Malley has instituted a tax on citizens for the amount of rain that falls on their property.
The tax, officially known as a "storm water management fee," will be enforced in nine of the state's counties. The
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News Link • Privacy Rights
Is Facebook smartphone just a new way to collect data about you?
04-11-2013
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Mark Guarino via ChristianScienceMonitor.com
Facebook's smartphone launch raises alarms with consumer advocates who worry that more ease for consumers also means less privacy, as Facebook extends its capacity to mine personal data.
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News Link • Transportation
American drivers still talk, text as much as ever despite laws against it
04-11-2013
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The RawStory.com
Americans are using cellphones and other gadgets behind the wheel as much as ever, despite widespread awareness of the risks involved, a federal government agency said Friday.
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News Link • Environment
Study: Northern hemisphere summers now warmest of last 600 years
04-11-2013
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The RawStory.com
Summers in the northern hemisphere are now warmer than at any period in six centuries, according to climate research published on Wednesday in the science journal Nature.
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News Link • Social Security
Social Security office forces 87-year-old blind woman to sing for her $22 check
04-11-2013
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David Edwards via RawStory.com
An 87-year-old partially-blind woman in South Africa says that she was humiliated when a local welfare office forced her to sing before receiving her Social Security check.
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News Link • Marriage
French Senate approves crucial marriage equality measure
04-11-2013
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The RawStory.com
France’s Senate on Wednesday approved the crucial first article of a bill granting gay couples the right to marry, clearing the way for a law that has sparked protests from conservatives and religious groups.
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Feature Article • B.O.R.G.
The Truth About Cartels
Bob Podolsky
Cartels…What Are They? Up until about ten years ago the only cartels I’d heard of were oil cartels and drug cartels. Then I ran across a wonderful 45 minute recording by Ed Griffin explaining that the Federal Reserve System is a privately owned bank
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News Link • Climate Change
Major businesses call for climate change laws
04-10-2013
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The RawStory.com
Several major companies issued a joint call Wednesday for the United States to enact legislation to battle climate change, saying that the issue was critical to their businesses.
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News Link • Housing
Government foreclosure relief brings homeowners only $300 to $500
04-10-2013
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Pro Publica via RawStory.com
The government’s largest effort to compensate victims of the banks’ foreclosure practices is finally sputtering to an end. But for most of those eligible 2013 nearly three million borrowers 2013 it won’t be much of an ending.
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News Link • Government
Florida bill designed to fight gambling scandal could cost state thousands of jobs
04-10-2013
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Arturo Garcia via RawStory.com
Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) signed a bill into law on Wednesday imposing new restriction on online gambling parlors in the state that could leave thousands unemployed, the Orlando Sentinel reported.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Teen 18-wheeler thief tells police he was running from zombies
04-10-2013
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Stephen C. Webster via The RawStory.com
A 19-year-old man who allegedly stole and then crashed an 18-wheeler in California on Sunday told police he was being chased by “zombies,” according to published reports.
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
Scientists find new key ingredient for anti-malaria drug
04-10-2013
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The RawStory.com
US scientists on Wednesday said they had used baker’s yeast to make a key ingredient of malaria drugs, a feat that could iron out fluctuations in supply caused by sourcing the chemical from a Chinese herb.
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Obama’s budget boosts funding for health and science
04-10-2013
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The RawStory.com
President Barack Obama’s budget proposal released on Wednesday would boost funds for major science and health programs while making small cuts at NASA and the Environmental Protection Agency.
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News Link • Energy
Commissioning of final turbine completes world’s largest offshore wind farm
04-10-2013
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CleanTechnica.com
The 175th and final wind turbine was installed at the London Array offshore wind farm in December of 2012, but was finally commissioned this week.
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News Link • Government
For the price of the Iraq War, U.S. could power half of the country with renewable energy
04-10-2013
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CleanTechnica.com
Discussions of how to respond to climate change often involve Very Large Numbers
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News Link • Environment
Greenpeace ‘polar bears’ protest Arctic drilling in Norway
04-10-2013
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The RawStory.com
Two Greenpeace activists dressed as polar bears boarded an oil platform in Norway on Wednesday to protest against Norwegian oil and gas group Statoil’s planned drilling in the Arctic.
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News Link • 911 / World Trade Center
Evangelical lawyer: Atheists want to ‘finish the job’ terrorists started on 9/11
04-10-2013
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David Edwards via RawStory.com
An evangelical lawyer and professor from Jerry Falwell’s Liberty University on Wednesday warned that atheists were trying to “finish the job” that terrorists started when they attacked the United States on Sept. 11, 2011.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Atlanta gunman killed after holding fire fighters hostage
04-10-2013
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Eric W. Dolan via RawStory.com
A gunman was shot and killed on Wednesday afternoon after holding four fire fighters hostage in Suwanee, Georgia, about 35 miles from Atlanta.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Washington state suing florist who refused to supply gay wedding
04-10-2013
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David Edwards via RawStory.com
State of Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson filed a consumer protection suit against Arlene’s Flowers and Gifts, the Richmond, Washington florist who refused to supply flowers for a same sex wedding.
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News Link • Privacy Rights
FOIA documents suggest IRS may have ignored court ruling on email privacy
04-10-2013
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Stephen C. Webster via The RawStory.com
A bundle of documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request suggests that the nation’s tax collector may have ignored a court ruling in 2010
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News Link • Government
Oklahoma tea party founder busted for threats to lawmaker over ‘fringe’ Agenda 21 conspiracy
04-10-2013
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David Edwards via RawStory.com
The founder of a tea party group in Oklahoma was charged with two felonies on Tuesday for allegedly sending threatening emails to a Republican lawmaker
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News Link • Corruption
Secret FDIC Plan To
Loot Bank Accounts
04-10-2013
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http://rense.com, By Stephen Lendman
It shouldn't surprise. It's already policy. Market analyst Graham Summers explained. Depositor theft is coming. Europe is banker occupied territory. So is America.
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News Link • Housing
The Tunnel People That Live Under The Streets Of America
04-10-2013
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http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com, By Michael
Did you know that there are thousands upon thousands of homeless people that are living underground beneath the streets of major U.S. cities?
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News Link • Property Rights
Police discover hidden underground tunnels used by the homeless
04-10-2013
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The Sideshow
During a routine crime investigation, Kansas City police discovered a series of underground dirt tunnels being used by the city’s homeless....Once police were able to confirm no one was inside them, they brought in a tractor to fill in the tunnels.
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News Link • Corruption
The Banks' "Penalty" To Put Robosigning Behind Them: $300 Per Person
04-10-2013
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http://www.zerohedge.com, Tyler Durden
Back in late 2010, there was much hope that as a result of the unfolding robosigning "Linda Green" scandal
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News Link • Racism
Black Woman Pretends To Be White, Job Offers Skyrocket
04-10-2013
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worldordernews.com
Unemployed black woman pretends to be white, job offers suddenly skyrocket.
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News Link • Corruption
New documents raise more questions about financing of McDonnell’s daughter’s wedding
04-09-2013
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Washington Post
Virginia Gov. Robert F. McDonnell has said his daughter and her husband paid for their own wedding. So a $15,000 check from a major campaign donor to pay for the food at the affair was a gift to the bride and groom and not to him and therefore did no
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