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Date Sent: 2011-02-05
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Saturday, February 5, 2011 |
Egypt Officials Seek Mubarak Ouster -- Feds threaten Oakland over plan to license marijuana farms
2 Detained Reporters Saw Secret Police’s Methods Firsthand -- Hackers penetrated Nasdaq computer network -- US housing depression worst in world history -- Homeland Security Tries And Fails To Explain Why Seized Domains Are
Different From Google -- Smartphone
application provides instant translation through augmented reality --
Bernanke dismisses inflation concerns, says unemployment turnaround
will take years -- Virginia considers
replacing US dollar with its own currency -- Democrats warn of
US shutdown over debt -- What other dictators does the U.S. support? --
Israel Pushes for Conditional Democracy in Egypt -- Gerald Celente: "Look for a False Flag"
-- $5 million lawsuit targets Jimmy Carter for ‘attacking Israel’ --
Arizona bill aims to let state ignore federal laws -- Treasury Wants 100 Year and GDP-Linked Bonds to Fill
$2.4 Trillion Hole -- What Could Possibly Go Wrong: Blotting Out
the Sun -- Russia is Building its Own Military Space Plane to Match the
Mysterious X-37B -- British Border Agent Fired for Putting Wife on
Terrorist Watch List -- Meet Asmaa
Mahfouz and the vlog that Helped Spark the Revolution
AZ: Arizona Breakfast Club this
morning on WalletVoting.com - Egypt
& CPAC - "One World Government?... Then One World LOVEolution"
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News Link • World News
Egypt Officials Seek to Nudge Mubarak Out
02-04-2011
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NY Times
The country’s newly named vice president, Omar Suleiman, and other top military leaders were discussing steps to limit Mr. Mubarak’s decision-making authority and possibly remove him from the presidential palace in Cairo " though not to strip him of
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
Feds threaten Oakland over plan to license marijuana farms
02-04-2011
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RawStory.com
Federal prosecutors have told the city of Oakland, California, that they will prosecute pot farmers operating under the city's planned marijuana licensing scheme.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • World News
2 Detained Reporters Saw Secret Police’s Methods Firsthand
02-04-2011
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NY Times
WE had been detained by Egyptian authorities, handed over to the country’s dreaded secret police, and interrogated. But our discomfort paled in comparison to the dull whacks and the screams of pain by Egyptian people that broke the stillness
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
Report: Hackers penetrated Nasdaq computer network
02-04-2011
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AP
The computer network that runs the Nasdaq Stock Market has been penetrated by hackers multiple times during the past year, according to a newspaper report.
The Wall Street Journal reported on its website late Friday that federal investigators are
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Housing
US housing depression worst in world history
02-04-2011
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Terrence Aym
What's more catastrophic than the fall of Rome; more devastating than the collapse of Germany's Wiemar republic after WWI; and worlds worse than the Great Depression of the 1930s? If you guessed the U.S. housing market in 2011 you're right. The ec
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Terrence Aym
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News Link • Homeland Security
US accuses 10 sports websites of piracy links
02-04-2011
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Alternet
Federal officers armed with court-issued warrants seized the online domains of Atdhe.net, Channelsurfing.net, HQ-streams.com, HQstreams.net, Firstrow.net, Ilemi.com, Iilemi.com, Iilemii.com, Rojadirecta.org, and Rojadirecta.com. Visitors to any of th
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Homeland Security
Homeland Security Tries And Fails To Explain Why Seized Domains Are Different From Google
02-04-2011
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TechDirt
The Marketplace radio show from American Public Media spoke to Special Agent James Hayes from Homeland Security, who was apparently in charge of the "raids" (if you can call them that) that involved the seizing of domain names under the legally quest
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Politics
$74 Billion In Cuts Out Of $3,600 Billion is DRACONIAN?
02-04-2011
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www.drscoundrels.com
It is to laugh. The Regressives in Congress and the White House didn’t hear the message you sent them. They have already turned this upcoming budget battle into an “all the Republicans” fault situation.
That’s what little Chuckie “Wanna Pay” Schu
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Rich Hilts
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News Link • Corruption
Move Over GMO Alfalfa, Here Come the Beets
02-04-2011
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Farm Wars
In the wake of the recent GMO alfalfa victory for biotech pirates masquerading as USDA gatekeepers, here come the beets. This spring we can count on yet another biotech mutation receiving the USDA seal of approval, damn the law, full steam ahead.
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Bernanke dismisses inflation concerns, says unemployment turnaround will take years
02-04-2011
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www.washingtonpost.com
The economy is poised to grow more rapidly this year, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said Thursday, dismissing fears that rising fuel prices will trigger broad-based inflation.
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News Link • States' Rights
Virginia considers replacing US dollar with its own currency
02-04-2011
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Terrence Aym
A rebellion against the federal government started amongst some of the states back in 2010. The movement started with the attorney generals of a dozen or so states filing lawsuits against the executive branch of the federal government in an effort to
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News Link • Politics
Chavez to fight on for a third six-year term
02-04-2011
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www.upi.com
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, beset by problems of economic slowdown for the second consecutive year, announced he would fight on and seek re-election next year for a third six-year term.
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Democrats warn of US shutdown over debt
02-04-2011
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www.breitbart.com
Senate Democrats warned Thursday of dire economic consequences if Congress fails to raise the US debt ceiling, saying it could prompt a shutdown of the federal government.
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News Link • World News
What other dictators does the U.S. support?
02-04-2011
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www.salon.com
Aside from Hosni Mubarak in Egypt, here are the other most controversial leaders propped up by the U.S.
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News Link • World News
Israel Pushes for Conditional Democracy in Egypt
02-04-2011
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news.antiwar.com
Officials Press for West to Impose Demands on a Free Egypt
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News Link • Conspiracies
Gerald Celente: "Look for a False Flag"
02-04-2011
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washingtonsblog.com/
"Look for a False Flag. Look for Something to Rally the People Around the President. They'll do Another One ... Remember the Maine"
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Israel
$5 million lawsuit targets Jimmy Carter for ‘attacking Israel’
02-04-2011
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RawStory.com
Former President Jimmy Carter has become the target of a class action lawsuit over ostensibly mean things he said about Israel in his best-selling 2006 book, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Arizona Laws and Arizona Founding Documents
Arizona bill aims to let state ignore federal laws
02-04-2011
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RawStory.com
Members of the Arizona Legislature, led by Republican Senate President Russell Pearce, have introduced a bill that attempts to grant the state the power to ignore federal laws it does not want to comply with.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Treasury Wants 100 Year and GDP-Linked Bonds to Fill $2.4 Trillion Hole
02-04-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
A dazzling array of "solutions" are then presented to fill the engineered void, in which we find 40, 50 even 100 year bonds, callable coupons, floating rate bills (to reduce rollover risk) and even GDP-linked bonds
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
By Swapping Just a Few Key Particles, Researchers Atomically Engineer Magnets For Custom Purposes
02-04-2011
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popsci.com
In a process much like the materials science equivalent of bioengineering, researchers at the Department of Energy’s Ames Lab have figured out how to replace individual atoms in a solid magnetic compund much as biologists tweak and replace individual
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Energy
Attractive Italian Viaduct Has Wind Turbines Built In
02-04-2011
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popsci.com
A new bridge concept incorporates wind and solar energy into its design, generating 40 million kilowatt-hours per year " and looking pretty slick to boot.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Climate Change
What Could Possibly Go Wrong: Blotting Out the Sun
02-04-2011
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popsci.com
Geoengineering could cause more problems than the global warming it aims to stop
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Russia is Building its Own Military Space Plane to Match the Mysterious X-37B
02-04-2011
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popsci.com
In what some are calling a second iteration of the space race, it seems the Russians have found a “Sputnik moment” of their own.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
With Robotic Cargo Ferry Launch, Europe Will Become an Official Supplier to the ISS This Month
02-04-2011
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popsci.com
The ESA’s newest Automated Transfer Vehicle--ATV-2, otherwise known as Johannes Kepler--is loaded up and primed for its February 15th launch to the International Space Station, marking a several significant milestones for the European Space Agency an
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
British Border Agent Fired for Putting Wife on Terrorist Watch List
02-04-2011
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wired.com
A UK border agent lost his job after authorities discovered he’d placed his wife on a terrorist watch list in an attempt to rid himself of her.
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News Link • Internet
‘Dating’ Site Imports 250,000 Facebook Profiles, Without Permission
02-04-2011
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wired.com
How does a unknown dating site, with the absurd intention of destroying Facebook, launch with 250,000 member profiles on the first day? Simple. You scrape data from Facebook.
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News Link • Just For Fun!
‘Dolphin Man’ Cheats His Way to World Record
02-04-2011
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wired.com
Despite what Hill Taylor says, the world record for the 50-meter backstroke is 24.04, but the 23-year-old phenom from the University of Texas will tell you it’s actually a second below that.
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News Link • World News
Cairo Geeks Survive Tahrir Square Assault
02-04-2011
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wired.com
For three days, the geeks and online activists and DIY filmmakers protested peacefully here in Tahrir Square. For three nights, they slept in tents with their laptops by their sides and kept their mobile phones charged by hacking into one of Tahrir’s
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Wikileaks Mirrors
02-04-2011
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wikileaks.info
Find all the current Wikileaks Mirrors and Links here. Helpful, if the main site - wikileaks.org - is down.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
Meet Asmaa Mahfouz and the vlog that Helped Spark the Revolution
02-04-2011
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YouTube
(a shot heard around the world...) - This vlog was recorded on January 18th by Asmaa Mahfouz, the girl who helped start it all. She had shared it on her Facebook, and it had gone viral. It was so powerful and so popular, that it drove Egyptians by th
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • World News
Egypt's Democratic Uprising Exposes the U.S. Corporate Welfare Scheme of Military 'Foreign A
02-04-2011
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www.bradblog.com
Revolution threatens Egypt's authoritarian regime, U.S. Empire...
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Central Banks Now Creating Hyperinflation?
02-04-2011
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DailyBell
If money velocity continues to rise, one might fairly accuse top bankers of, in a sense, purposefully destabilizing the system. Such actions verge on the reckless. Trichet is likely risking severe price inflation and perhaps hyperinflation.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Today on LewRockwell.com - Friday Feb 4th 2011
02-04-2011
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LewRockwell.com
The End of the Nation State - Revolution in Egypt and Beyond,
It's about time, says Doug Casey - 9/11 Bombshell, WikiLeaks reveals some lies we were told - The Tipping Point Is Past - Targeting Tyrants
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
NIA: American Cities Will Resemble Egypt In 2015
02-04-2011
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PrisonPlanet.com
The National Inflation Association has issued a chilling new advisory in which it warns that the inflationary time bomb being created by the policies of the Federal Reserve will lead to American cities experiencing similar chaos currently unfolding i
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
SpaceX to Upgrade Robotic Spaceship to Carry Astronauts
02-04-2011
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space.com
With one successful test flight of a private space capsule under its belt, a commercial spaceflight company is looking ahead to another big step: upgrading its robotic Dragon spaceship to carry astronaut crews.
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News Link • Police State
Republicans Move to Make PATRIOT Act Permanent
02-04-2011
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www.prisonplanet.com
Freshly emboldened by their mid-term congressional wins, establishment Republicans are set to extend the unconstitutional police state Patriot Act. It is set to expire in three weeks and Republicans are eager to make sections of the legislation perma
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Air Force Primes X-37B Space Plane for Next Secret Mission
02-04-2011
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space.com
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. " Two months after a sister ship successfully concluded a demo flight, the U.S. military's second robotic X-37B space plane is in Florida preparing for blastoff March 4 on another secret mission, according to an Air Force o
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Major Announcement Imminent From Egypt State TV; There’s A Rumor That Mubarak Will Step Down
02-04-2011
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www.prisonplanet.com/
Al-Arabiya says a rumor spread through Egypt this morning that the president has agreed to step down with certain guarantees. This produced celebrations and a tremendous feeling of relief in the crowd at Tahrir Square, says a commentator on Al-Jazeer
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Labor Force Participation Plunges To Fresh 26 Year Low
02-04-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
At 64.2%, the labor force participation rate (as a percentage of the total civilian noninstitutional population) is now at a fresh 26 year low, the lowest since March 1984, and is the only reason why the unemployment rate dropped to 9%
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Karl Denninger on Employment: Recovery My Ass
02-04-2011
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Market-ticker.org
There has been no improvement - at all - in the employment picture, and in fact the employed rate, as a percentage of the non-institutionalized population, is now the worst it has been since the economic downturn began.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Ala. Officer Shoots Defendant in Courtroom
02-04-2011
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Officer.com
A judge pulled a gun on a crutch-swinging defendant who went wild in a crowded rural courtroom after being found guilty of harassment Thursday, a witness said.
A police officer shot and wounded the man, who had a cast on his leg, after he lunged a
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Justin Tyme
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News Link • Weather News - Links - History
The Father Of Weaponized Weather
02-04-2011
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prisonplanet.com
Veteran weather modification expert Ben Livingston is a former Navy Physicist who briefed President Lyndon B. Johnson on the effectiveness of weather control back in the 1960′s during the Vietnam era, when he was involved in cloud seeding progr
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Lawsuit against city alleges 'Baseline Killer' could have been stopped
02-04-2011
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www.azfamily.com
The husband of one of the victims of the so-called 'Baseline Killer' is suing the City of Phoenix saying the killer could have been stopped sooner. Mike Watkiss reports.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Donald Trump says bread in U.S. could reach $25 per loaf in near future
2/3/2011
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therealnewsnow
The ongoing economic crisis in the United States is starting to worry highly influential international businessman, including Donald Trump. Trump, one of the most prominent businessman in America, is beginning to warn people of the ever-growing econo
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News Link • Freedom Summit
"Ending the State in 30 Days!" Stefan Molyneux of Freedomain Radio at Freedom Summit 2010
02-04-2011
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youtube.com
How to turn statists into freedom lovers - a powerful, funny and engaging talk by Stefan Molyneux of Freedomain Radio, recorded at the Freedom Summit 2010 in Phoenix Arizona in December 2010.
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