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Date Sent: 2013-04-02
Freedom's Phoenix PM Edition for Tuesday, April 2, 2013 |
UN passes sweeping international arms regulation viewed by some as Second Amendment override
Peter Schiff: We're Headed To A Currency Crisis One Way Or Another -- The House's new Ron Paul -- Digital 'bitcoin' currency surpasses 20 national currencies in value -- David Stockman: Ben Bernanke Is The Most Dangerous Man In US History -- Democrats propose $10,000 fine for gun owners who don’t have insurance -- California lawmakers consider regulating, taxing ammunition -- Conn. lawmakers unveil bipartisan gun control plan --
How a 3D printer gave a man his face - and his life - back -- Texas
Prosecutors Lived In A State Of Terror Before They Were Gunned Down -- Russia Internet Censorship Begins -- Tikrit Tanker Bomb Leaves
Dozens Killed; Iraq Executes Four on Terrorism Charges -- Charles Koch
Has No Power to Coerce Anybody; That’s Why He Needs Government --
Monsanto Protection Act Highlights Special Interests Behind
Legislative Process -- Scandal Hits Cyprus -- Monsanto Protection
Act -- Why Gold’s a Trade, Not an Investment -- 71st
Anniversary: Roosevelt's Concentration Camps - by Gary North --
Satellite Gyroscopes Can
Give Early Warnings Before Drivers Get Dangerously Tired -- First
3-D Acoustic Cloak Hides Objects From Sonar -- NASA Launches
Three Military Drones Into An Active Volcano
AZ activism: Pass out Silver Circle Movie materials to press
and around the campus at ASU, Tuesday, 4-2-13 @ 2 p.m.
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News Link • Gun Rights
U.N. passes sweeping international arms regulation viewed by some as Second Amendment override
04-02-2013
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Washington Times
The United Nations signed off on a sweeping treaty to regulate the international arms trade, brushing aside worries from US gun rights advocates that the pact could lead to a national firearms registry and disrupt the American gun market.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Bitcoin
Digital 'bitcoin' currency surpasses 20 national currencies in value
04-02-2013
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foxnews.com
More than $1 billion dollars worth of a digital currency known as "bitcoins" now circulate on the web "
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Federal Reserve
David Stockman: Ben Bernanke Is The Most Dangerous Man In US History
04-02-2013
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Daily Paul.com
David Stockman: Ben Bernanke Is The Most Dangerous Man In US History
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gun Rights
Democrats propose $10,000 fine for gun owners who don’t have insurance
04-02-2013
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The Daily Caller
“It shall be unlawful for a person who owns a firearm purchased on or after the effective date of this subsection not to be covered by a qualified liability insurance policy,” the bill reads.
The bill would also make it a federal crime to sell
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News Link • Gun Rights
California lawmakers consider regulating, taxing ammunition
04-02-2013
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The Sun
Democratic lawmakers are pushing like never before to regulate or tax ammunition sales. They say the logic is simple: A firearm is nothing but an expensive paperweight without ammunition.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
Conn. lawmakers unveil bipartisan gun control plan
04-02-2013
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AP
ban on new high-capacity ammunition magazines, registration requirements for existing magazines, a dangerous weapon offender registry, a "ammunition eligibility certificate," imposes universal background checks for all firearms sales and
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News Link • Activism
Help Pass out Silver Circle Movie materials to press and around the campus at ASU TODAY @ 2 p.m.!
04-01-2013
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www.meetup.com/RonPaulPhoenix
We are going to be passing out Silver Circle Movie promotional materials to the press (TV News Stations, Newspapers, and Radio Stations around the valley) and on the campus at ASU on Tuesday, April 2nd, 2013 after lunch at J.J. North's at 2:00 p.m.
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News Link • Science
Fable of the Dragon Tyrant
04-02-2013
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arclein
Humanity is a curious species. Every once in a while, somebody gets a good idea. Others copy the idea, adding to it their own improvements. Over time, many wondrous tools and systems are developed. Some of these devices " calculators, thermometers, m
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Rutile Reveals History
04-02-2013
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arclein
Now, geologists can identify rock types containing rutile and follow the changes in temperature and pressure that they have been exposed to throughout its history, even if rutile is barely visible to the naked eye. Previously, researchers had to inve
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Flow Batteries Advancing
04-02-2013
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arclein
Several firms are now coming to market with designs that they say address those concerns, opening the door to the possibility that battery backups for renewables could one day form a constellation of self-sufficient microgrids far more resilient than
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News Link • Religion: Believers
Christian Exodus in Middle East
04-02-2013
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arclein
under Islamic law a Muslim couldn’t settle disputes in the courts of infidels. This limitation handicapped Muslim-Christian business relations, particularly since under Islamic law the word of Muslims often trumped that of infidels, even when the inf
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News Link • Bitcoin
Programmer Robert McNally Put Together An Awesome Presentation On What Bitcoin Really Is
04-02-2013
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Rob Wile
Is Bitcoin the new gold?
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
How a 3D printer gave a man his face - and his life - back
04-02-2013
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http://www.smh.com, Richard Gray
When restaurant manager Eric Moger surprised his girlfriend by proposing over Christmas dinner, he could have no idea that less than a year later his life and appearance would be changed beyond recognition.
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
Seth Rogen And James Franco Release Fake 'Pineapple Express' Sequel Trailer
04-02-2013
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http://www.businessinsider.com,
In what is jokingly being touted as "the most anticipated movie sequel in human history," James Franco and Seth Rogen have released a trailer for the fake sequel (Aprils Fool's!) to their hit 2008 film "Pineapple Express."
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News Link • How To
21 Photos Of People Carrying Way Too Much Stuff
04-02-2013
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Alex Davies
In most western nations, goods are transported on trains, ships, and trucks.
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Texas Prosecutors Lived In A State Of Terror Before They Were Gunned Down
04-02-2013
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Erin Fuchs
A Texas district attorney and an assistant DA who were killed within months of each other both seemed to know they might be targeted.
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News Link • Internet
Russia Internet Censorship Begins
04-02-2013
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fastcompany.com
Content deemed bad for kids will be filtered, but the law raises worries about wider censorship.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • TERRORISM
Tikrit Tanker Bomb Leaves Dozens Killed; Iraq Executes Four on Terrorism Charges
04-02-2013
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Antiwar.com
On what otherwise would have been a relatively peaceful day,
a suicide bomber using a tanker bomb was able to cause a significant amount of casualties at a police base in northern Iraq.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Climate Change
Melt may explain Antarctica's sea ice expansion
04-02-2013
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bbc.co.uk
Climate change is expanding Antarctica's sea ice, according to a scientific study in the journal Nature Geoscience.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Transportation
Tesla expects its first-ever profit
04-02-2013
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money.cnn.com
Tesla Motors is expecting to report its first-ever quarterly profit after sales of its all-electric Model S exceeded expectations.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Texas Looks to Reclaim its Gold
04-02-2013
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campaignforliberty.org
While Cyprus and other EU countries plunder their citizens’ bank accounts, the state of Texas seems to be making an unprecedented move towards insuring the wealth of its people.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Government
Charles Koch Has No Power to Coerce Anybody; That’s Why He Needs Government
04-02-2013
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c4ss.org
Were there an awards show for unintentional howlers, Charles Koch’s statement in a Forbes interview last December (“Inside the Koch Empire: How the Brothers Plan to Reshape America,” December 5, 2012) would surely be a nominee.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Obama Administration
Monsanto Protection Act Highlights Special Interests Behind Legislative Process
03-31-2013
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Robert Taylor, PolicyMic
For all of the laments over gridlock and a supposed lack of bipartisanship and compromise, there is little that moves faster through Congress and on to the president than a bill that restrains liberty, expands state power, or protects corporate inter
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Anti-GMO Conspiracy Theorists Lose It Over Minor Deregulation
04-02-2013
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The Skeptical Libertarian
Anti-GMO conspiracy theorists should stick to quack science and retreat from their misguided foray into regulatory analysis.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Why Gold’s a Trade, Not an Investment
04-02-2013
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http://www.investmentcontrarians.com/gold-investme
I’m beginning to change my tone towards gold. After being patient since October 2011, I’m inclined to feel the yellow metal is now more of a trade than an investment.
In a sign of optimism, gold recently broke above $1,600 an ounce on the banking
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Alex Oscar
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News Link • Police State
71st Anniversary: Roosevelt's Concentration Camps - by Gary North
04-01-2013
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Lew Rockwell
The hard-core version is this: the U.S. government had several governments in South America round up Japanese residents, who were then shipped to the U.S. The government put them in concentration camps. These camps received no publicity.
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News Link • PC: Political Correctness
Muslims declare victory in fight over ‘anti-Islamic’ Lego
04-01-2013
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UK Independent
Austria’s Turkish community claimed a victory in its fight against Danish toy giant Lego yesterday after the firm agreed to withdraw a Star Wars toy set featuring a mosque-like building following complaints that it was anti-Muslim.
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News Link • Religion: Believers
Man fatally shot outside of Ohio church after Easter service
04-01-2013
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CBS News
Witnesses say the 25-year-old man accused of walking into an Ohio church and fatally shooting his father after an Easter service Sunday was yelling about God and Allah after the killing.
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News Link • Environment
Something Is Killing Up To Half Of America's Bees
04-01-2013
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Colin Lecher via PopSci.com
Whatever's killing honeybees is getting worse, but we still don't know what it is.
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News Link • Transportation
Sea Walls Will Protect New York Subways From Storm Surges
04-01-2013
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Francie Diep via PopSci.com
New walls in the Rockaways will protect a vulnerable stretch of the A train tracks.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
First 3-D Acoustic Cloak Hides Objects From Sonar
04-01-2013
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Francie Diep via PopSci.com
This plastic ring system doesn't exactly make the eight-centimeter ball inside less noticeable to the eye"but it does make the ball undetectable to sonar at a specific pitch.
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Feature Article • Agriculture
Harvesting Without Trying to Sow
Jim Bovard
In their March 27 response to my "Rotten Tomatoes for a Billion-Dollar Farm Payout," Philip Fraas and David Frantz, the lead counsel for the Pigford case, disparage the notion that many black claimants merely "attempted to farm."
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Ecuador raises Julian Assange case with Labour
04-01-2013
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The Guardian
Diplomat brings up subject of WikiLeaks founder taking refuge in embassy at meeting with Kerry McCarthy MP
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Corruption
Cypriot President's Family Transferred $10+Million to London Before Deposits Seized
04-01-2013
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http://www.dailypaul.com/280238/cypriot-presidents
Cyprus President's Family Transferred Tens Of Millions To London Days Before Deposit Haircuts
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Bitcoin
As Feds Suggest ‘Guidance,’ Bitcoin Foundation Pushes Back
04-01-2013
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slashdot
Bitcoin is under increased scrutiny by regulators as it increases in value. But the Bitcoin Foundation wants nothing to do with them.
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News Link • China
Australia And China To Enable Direct Currency Convertibility...Bye Bye US Dollar
04-01-2013
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Zero Hedge
Australian is set to say goodbye to the world's "reserve currency" in its trade dealings with economic power, China, and will enable the direct convertibility of the Australian dollar into Chinese yuan, without US Dollar intermediation
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News Link • Surveillance
The Bad Sort of Stringray
03-31-2013
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Simple Justice
The device works by pretending to be a mobile phone tower, so devices can connect to it, and law enforcement gets all your data. It's basically a cellular man-in-the-middle attack, with law enforcement being that man in the middle. Yay.
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News Link • Iraq
The Real Reason for the Iraq War
03-31-2013
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Lew Rockwell blog
In 1990, Murray Rothbard suggested the Iraq War at that time had the purpose of RAISING the price of oil. The idea was to stop Saddam from cheating on OPEC. Iraq had the capacity to flood the market with oil, break the price, and reap big revenues.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
The Dorner Reward: Let's Get Technical
03-31-2013
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Simple Justice
So why offer such a big reward? I offered a theory before his killing. Apparently, the message is that if they capture Dorner, they will kill him as punishment. This trio is really comprised of two messages, one for Dorner and the other for public
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News Link • Philosophy: Anarchism
What Would We Do Without the State?
03-31-2013
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Lew Rockwell blog
Skeptics of liberty wonder how a libertarian society would deal with various human problems. We can speculate, but do not always know. Do we need to know? In view of the dismal, bloody record of government, does it really matter?
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Future Crime, Redux
03-31-2013
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Simple Justice
Neuroscientists can predict whether felons are likely to commit crimes again from looking at their brain scans. Convicts showing low activity in a brain region associated with decision-making and action are more likely to be arrested again, and soone
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News Link • Food
Police Restrain Hundreds of People As Food Trashed
03-31-2013
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Information Clearinghouse
But the goods never made it into the hands of people who desperately needed, as local police barricaded the stockpile of food. They called in a disposal company and tossed every bit of it into the trash, angering many
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Could the Banksters Grab Your Bank Deposits?
03-31-2013
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Jonathan Turley
I couldn’t believe the plan in Cyprus hinged on the idea that the bank could just steal customer’s funds to balance the bank’s books. I muttered to myself that couldn’t possibly happen here. Unfortunately, I learned the plan was already in the works
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News Link • WAR: About that War
U.S. F-22 stealth jets join South Korea drills amid saber-rattling
03-31-2013
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Reuters
The United States sent F-22 stealth fighter jets to South Korea on Sunday to join military drills aimed at underscoring the U.S. commitment to defend Seoul in the face of an intensifying campaign of threats from North Korea.
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Dutch company offers one way ticket to Mars
03-31-2013
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Reuters
A Dutch company called Mars One is looking for volunteer astronauts to participate in the first manned-mission to Mars. The company wants to send 4 people to the Red Planet to start a colony and will have no way of coming back.
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News Link • Economy - International
IMF team to arrive in Egypt on Wednesday for loan talks
03-31-2013
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Reuters
An IMF delegation will arrive in Egypt for talks with the government on a $4.8 billion loan, a government spokesman said seeking to easing a deep economic crisis. Egypt would not seek any emergency loan from the International Monetary Fund
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The Next Real Estate Bubble: Farmland
03-31-2013
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Farmers have been taking on mounting debt, creating an unsustainable increase in land prices and risking a crash that would ripple through our economy.
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News Link • Iraq
“Liberating Iraqis”, Limb by Limb, Life by Life, Home by Home, Gene by Gene
03-31-2013
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http://www.globalresearch.ca, By Felicity Arbuthno
“Why should we hear about body bags and deaths … I mean, it’s not relevant, so why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that …” (Former First Lady, Barbara Bush, Good Morning America, 18th March 2003)
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News Link • Syria
Syria: Democracy vs. Foreign Invasion. Who is Bashar Al Assad?
03-31-2013
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http://www.globalresearch.ca, by Arabi Souri
A Syrian's Perspective: Bashar al-Assad's Democratic Movement
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News Link • Environment
Claim: Germany Spends $110 Billion to Delay Global Warming by 37 Hours
03-31-2013
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The Weekly Standard
[John Stossel:] "The Germans are spending about $110 billion on subsidies for these solar panels," said Lomborg. "The net effect of all those investments will be to postpone global warming by 37 hours by the end of the century."
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News Link • Afghanistan
NATO airstrike kills two Afghan children
03-31-2013
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AFP
A NATO helicopter strike killed two children in southern Afghanistan on Saturday, officials said, in the latest civilian casualties to beset the coalition’s war against Taliban militants.
The operation close to Ghazni city was conducted after loca
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News Link • Drug War
Kansas Couple: Indoor Gardening Prompted Pot Raid
03-31-2013
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AP
Former CIA employees whose Kansas home was fruitlessly searched for marijuana during a two-state drug sweep claim they were illegally targeted, possibly because they had bought indoor growing supplies to raise vegetables.
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News Link • Environment
Twenty-year hiatus in rising temperatures has climate scientists puzzled
03-31-2013
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DEBATE about the reality of a two-decade pause in global warming and what it means has made its way from the skeptical fringe to the mainstream.
In a lengthy article this week, The Economist magazine said if climate scientists were credit-rating a
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