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Date Sent: 2014-02-15
Freedom's Phoenix Edition for Saturday, February 15, 2014 |
Oregon Police Give Nightclubs ID Scanners to Datamine Customers
U.S. Issues Marijuana Guidelines for Banks -- Syrian Peace Process Pretense -- Venezuelan Fascists Want Regime Change
-- SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News, February 16, 2014 Edition --
DARPA's Transformer drone
evolves beyond its Humvee heritage -- Powerful new Earth-facing
satellite can see what you're eating -- The European Debt Crisis
Visualized -- A Tale Of Two Extremes: Global Inflation In One Chart -- Martin Armstrong Exclaims "The Entire Social Contract Is Collapsing" -- Government Lays Groundwork To Confiscate Your 401k and IRA: “This Is
Happening” -- NASA's Mars Orbiter finds further clues of possible flowing
water on Mars -- Government Labels those who Grow Their Own Food
‘Extremists’ -- The Five Criminals: In America the Gestapo Has Replaced
The Rule Of Law -- Stockman: $500 Trillion
Derivative Bomb Threatens The World -- Dubai Could Make Drone Deliveries
Before Amazon Does
AZ: Freedom Summit 2014, now underway, Feb. 14-16; Memorial for Jack
McLamb, Saturday February 22nd, 2014, 2-4 p.m. (MST) - Phoenix, AZ
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News Link • Surveillance
Oregon Police Give Nightclubs ID Scanners to Datamine Customers
02-14-2014
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Mikael Thalen
Police blame bar owners for not knowing law after getting caught pushing them into surveillance program
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News Link • Drug War
U.S. Issues Marijuana Guidelines for Banks
02-15-2014
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AP
The Obama administration gave banks a road map for doing business with legal marijuana sellers without getting into trouble, a major step by the federal government toward enabling a legalized marijuana industry to operate in states that approve it.
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
NASA's 'Jelly Doughnut' Mars Rock Mystery Solved
02-15-2014
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Space
Scientists have solved the mystery of the strange "jelly doughnut" rock on Mars.
NASA's Opportunity rover spotted an odd Martian rock that looked like a doughnut on Jan. 8. Four days earlier, however, the rock wasn't there at all. So how did
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News Link • Israel
Over 15,000 People March to Demand Government Allow Building in Jerusalem Suburb
02-14-2014
Over 15,000 people participated in a march Thursday to demand that the government allow building in the Mevasseret Adumim area, also known as E1, between Jerusalem and Maale Adumim.
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News Link • World News
The World’s Oldest Kurd: A Beloved Rabbi in the Heart of the Holy City
02-10-2014
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Lazar Berman for Rudaw.net
In addition to being the world’s oldest Jew, Rabbi Zechariah Barashi, 114, is also the world’s oldest Kurd.
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News Link • Israel
'Israel is not an Occupier'
02/14/2014
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Ari Soffer for Arutz Sheva
Congressman Trent Franks condemns US administration's 'adversarial' stance towards Israel, says White House has become Iran's 'lobbyist'.
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News Link • Weather News - Links - History
Major Winter Storm Is Now A 'Bombogenesis' Situation
02-14-2014
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Business Insider
The major winter storm that's dumping huge amounts of snow on the Northeast and bringing thundersleet to Virginia has been called a "bombogenesis," a term used by meteorologists to describe a low pressure system that rapidly intensifies as it moves o
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News Link • Just For Fun!
GoPro video: Two guys climb the world's second tallest building
02-14-2014
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dvice.com
Shanghai Tower will become the second tallest building in the world once it's complete this year " second only to Dubai's Burj Khalifa.
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News Link • Drones
DARPA's Transformer drone evolves beyond its Humvee heritage
02-14-2014
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dvice.com
Since 2010, DARPA has been kicking around the concept of giving us an Autobot-esque vehicle of our own. Initially, the project was simply called Transformer (TX for short).
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News Link • European Union
The European Debt Crisis Visualized
02-14-2014
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
At the heart of the European debt crisis is the euro, the currency that ties together 17 countries in an intimate manner. So when one country teeters on the brink of financial collapse, the entire continent is at risk. The following excellent mini-do
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News Link • Economy - International
A Tale Of Two Extremes: Global Inflation In One Chart
02-14-2014
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
While Europe, and the bulk of the Developed World is struggling to dig out of its unprecedented credit crunch (in which central banks are the only source of credit money which instead of entering the economy is stuck in the capital markets via the re
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News Link • Government
Martin Armstrong Exclaims "The Entire Social Contract Is Collapsing"
02-14-2014
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Martin Armstrong
The German high court has ruled that children MUST take care of their parents even if they have not spoken to them in 27 years.
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News Link • Economy - International
Government Lays Groundwork To Confiscate Your 401k and IRA: “This Is Happening”
02-14-2014
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http://www.shtfplan.com, Mac Slavo
This morning Reuters obtained a leaked proposal disclosing that European Union officials are looking for new and innovative ways to fund their immense debt levels.
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
NASA's Mars Orbiter finds further clues of possible flowing water on Mars
02-14-2014
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http://www.gizmag.com, By Anthony Wood
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has transmitted further measurements of curious seasonal marks on the surface of Mars. They could be the most compelling evidence yet of flowing water existing on the Red Planet in the present day.
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News Link • Inventions
Your next fridge could keep cold more efficiently using magnets
02-14-2014
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http://www.gizmag.com, By Darren Quick
The fridge is the most common of common household appliances.
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News Link • Government
Government Labels those who Grow Their Own Food ‘Extremists’
02-14-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Christina Sarich
Those who mean to lord over us, such as the Department of Defense, have now called people who grow their own food ‘radical’ and extremists.
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News Link • Congress-Congressmen
The Five Criminals: In America the Gestapo Has Replaced The Rule Of Law
02-14-2014
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Paul Craig Roberts
RT is the best English language news source available to Americans. On January 29, RT published a photo of 5 presidential appointees lying through their teeth to Congress.
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News Link • Police State
Ain’t that Amerika?
02-14-2014
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By William Norman Grigg
A paramilitary team operated by North Carolina’s Wilson County Sheriff’s Office recently executed what was described as a “high risk search warrant” on a narcotics suspect.
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News Link • Drones
Dubai Could Make Drone Deliveries Before Amazon Does
02-14-2014
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http://www.wired.com, By Marcus Wohlsen
Jeff Bezos says Amazon hopes to send delivery drones into the air in four or five years. But another large organization will likely get there a whole lot sooner.
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Radio/TV Show • Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock - Radio
Host:
Ernest Hancock
02-14-14 -- Tarrin Lupo In Studio (MP3 & VIDEO LOADED)
Tarrin Lupo (Historical Fiction Author) in town for the Freedom Summit comes on the show to talk about prepping, self-sustainability, Bitcoin, his next project, the Freedom Summit, and libertarian issues
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News Link • Archaeology
Dispilio Tablet Pre - Bronze Age
02-14-2014
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arclein
More artefacts were discovered that show the economic and agricultural activities of the settlement, proof of animal breeding and their diet preferences as well as tools and pottery, figurines and other personal ornaments.
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News Link • Science
Origins of the Earth's Magnetism
02-14-2014
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arclein
‘This is serious business’, Richard Holme, Professor of Earth, Ocean and Ecological Sciences at Liverpool University told MailOnline. ‘Imagine for a moment your electrical power supply was knocked out for a few months " very little works without elec
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News Link • Domestic Policy
Chomsky Describes US Domestic Policy in Two Words: 'Pure Savagery'
02-14-2014
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arclein
Farm Bill that could see billions of dollars cut out of food stamp programs, renowned activist and intellectual Noam Chomsky summed up the state of American politics in an interview Thursday in two words: "pure savagery."
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Ukraine Machinations
02-14-2014
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arclein
This week, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland, in a now-famous cell phone conversation, declared her strong contempt for the European Union and its weakness and counseled the U.S. ambassador to
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
Can DMT Connect The Human Brain To A Parallel Universe?
02-14-2014
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arclein
Parallel worlds interact with each other when the interference occurs. According to the theoretical hypothesis, there is an unimaginably huge number of parallel universes, or multiverses, each of which is similar to our own and is subject to the same
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Ron Paul Demands Clemency For Snowden - Requests Petition Signatures From Public
02-14-2014
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RonPaulChannel.com
"Let’s bring Edward home before his amnesty in Russia expires on July 31, 2014." - Ron Paul.
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News Link • Corruption
Pennsylvania judge sentenced to 28 years in prison for selling teens to prisons.
02-13-2014
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Daily Paul.com
Disgraced Pennsylvania judge Mark Ciavarella Jr has been sentenced to 28 years in prison for conspiring with private prisons to sentence juvenile offenders to maximum sentences for bribes and kickbacks...
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News Link • Media: Print
Death of Saudi female student stirs uproar
02-13-2014
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Al Arabiya
Paramedics responding to an emergency at an all woman school in Saudi Arabia were prevented from entering because of rules banning the presence of men on campus.
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News Link • Obama Administration
U.S. press freedom plunges to 46th, placing it behind former Soviet states
02-13-2014
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Daily Paul.com
The massive drop is attributable mostly to the Obama Administration’s effort to crack down on whistleblowers. Obama’s Justice Department has filed suit against more whistleblowers than any other presidential administration in history.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Cop shoots service dog during kid's birthday party - Filer Idaho
02-13-2014
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Daily Paul
An officer took a neighborhood dispute over unleashed dogs into his own hands. After arriving at the dog-owner's house, the cop immediately started kicking the dog and in a matter of 38 seconds had shot it to death. The community is outraged after vi
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News Link • Death
Another JPMorgan Banker Dies, 37 Year Old Executive Director Of Program Trading
02-13-2014
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Zero Hedge
Ordinarily we would ignore the news of another banker's death - after all these sad events happen all the time - if it wasn't for several contextual aspects of this most recent passage.
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News Link • Obama Administration
President Obama Signs "Minimum Wage Hike" Executive Order - Live Feed
02-13-2014
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Zero Hedge
By the power of his pen... President Obama gives minimum-wage-earning Federal employees (and physically and mentally handicapped workers) a 39% pay hike to $10.10 (and there's nothing you can do about it) to "benefit hundreds of thousands of people."
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Jeff Gundlach Sells Apple; Warns High Yield Bonds "Most Over-Valued In History"
02-13-2014
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Zero Hedge
The default cycle that should have occurred, given historical patterns of issuance cycles, has morphed (thanks to the Fed) into a refinancing cycle;
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News Link • Afghanistan
Afghanistan frees detainees US calls 'dangerous'
02-13-2014
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AP
Afghanistan released 65 accused militants from a former U.S. prison on Thursday despite protests from the American military, which says the men are Taliban fighters who will likely return to the battlefield to kill coalition and Afghan forces.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Mortgage Applications Drop - Hover Near 19 Year Lows
02-13-2014
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Zero Hedge
Despite being told by Bullard, Yellen (and numerous other Federal Reserve thinkers) that quantitative easing was aimed at improving the housing market, the data suggests that - somewhat predictably - it did very little for mom-and-pop organic real ho
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Goldman On Gold - "This Is A Very Important Level To Watch"
02-13-2014
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Zero Hedge
Yesterday's apparent Yellen un-taper-driven strength in gold broke some key technical levels and Goldman Sachs sees upside.
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News Link • World News
Italian Government On Verge Of Collapse (Again)
02-13-2014
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Zero Hedge
The growing tensions between Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta (and his fragile coalition) and Matteo Renzi - the head of parliament's largest (center-left Democratic) party are intensifying this morning.
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News Link • Federal Reserve
No Janet Yellen, The Economy Is NOT “Getting Better”
02-13-2014
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theeconomiccollapseblog.com
On Tuesday, new Federal Reserve Chairman Janet Yellen went before Congress and confidently declared that "the economic recovery gained greater traction in the second half of last year" and that "substantial progress has been made in restoring the eco
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
The Senate Just Passed The Debt Ceiling Bill After A Dramatic, Hour-Long Vote
02-13-2014
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businessinsider.com
The Senate narrowly voted to advance " and, eventually, pass " the House of Representatives-passed debt-ceiling increase, after Democrats spent a long time on the floor trying to wrangle more Republican votes.
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News Link • Internet
Firefox Fought Tooth And Nail Against Ad Tracking, And Now It Will Serve Its Users Ads Directly
02-13-2014
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businessinsider.com
Mozilla's Firefox browser has been a thorn in the side of the digital advertising industry ever since it decided to automatically block all third party cookies a year ago.
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News Link • TERRORISM
How Obama Officials Cried ‘Terrorism’ to Cover Up a Paperwork Error
02-12-2014
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Wired
Instead of admitting to the error, high-ranking President Barack Obama administration officials spent years covering it up. Attorney General Eric Holder, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, and a litany of other government officials
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Man hurt in ax attack; police shoot his aggressive dog
02-12-2014
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A 55-year-old man sustained a cut to his hand Saturday night when a relative swung a hatchet at him during a domestic dispute. When officers arrived, the victim’s dog charged officers, who shot and killed the dog.
The dispute began with an argumen
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News Link • Government
A Town in Florida Has Made It Illegal for Homeless People to Cover Themselves with Blankets
02-12-2014
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Thanks to a “camping” ordinance passed by the City Council homeless people will be criminalized for sleeping outdoors while “adjacent to or inside a tent or sleeping bag, or atop and/or covered by materials such as a bedroll, cardboard, newspapers,
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
One Little Victory: Victim of Idaho Falls Police Riot is Vindicated
02-12-2014
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Lew Rockwell blog
Victor Madrigal, who was attacked in his Idaho Falls home by a thugscrum of the city’s “finest,” has been acquitted on charges of disturbing the peace, resisting arrest, and assault on an officer. Madrigal and his brother, Delosanto, were two of
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
U.S. Congress approves debt limit increase after Senate drama
02-12-2014
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Reuters
The U.S. Congress approved an increase in the country's debt limit through March 2015, bowing to President Barack Obama's demands to extend federal borrowing authority without conditions, but only after a dramatic Senate vote on Wednesday.
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News Link • Economy - International
Canada charts comfortable course to 2015 budget surplus
02-12-2014
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Reuters
Canada's Conservative government looks set to comfortably balance its books in 2015 or even sooner, its latest budget showed on Tuesday, with cuts in spending on the public service more than offsetting a series of modest new expenditures.
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News Link • Government
Britain warns Scotland: Forget the pound if you break away
02-12-2014
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Reuters
Britain will warn Scotland on Thursday it can't keep the pound if it votes for independence, its boldest attempt yet to scuttle a nationalist bid to break the 307-year-old union with England.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
8 Police Officers Fire 103 Times At 2 Unarmed Women Delivering Newspapers: It's OK
02-12-2014
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Jonathan Turley
We recently discussed the decision by the Los Angeles district attorney not to charge officers who shot up a vehicle of an innocent man because they were acting in "an atmosphere of fear and extreme anticipation."
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News Link • Corruption
Ray Nagin, former New Orleans mayor, convicted of federal corruption charges
02-12-2014
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Ray Nagin, the former two-term mayor of New Orleans indicted after he left office, was convicted Wednesday of 20 federal corruption charges for illegal dealings with city vendors, dating back to 2004. A jury delivered its verdict just before 1 p.m.,
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News Link • Energy
Laser-sparked fusion power passes key milestone
02-12-2014
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In a first for laser-driven fusion, scientists at a US lab say they have reached a key milestone called fuel gain: they are producing more energy than the fuel absorbed to start the reaction.
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